About the Role
We're looking for a QA Engineer to join the Remote Development team and take ownership of quality within their areas of responsibility, navigate ambiguity, and proactively improve product quality.
Responsibilities
- Perform functional, exploratory, regression, and acceptance testing.
- Ensure product stability and release readiness.
- Investigate, document, and report defects, ensuring they are prioritized, resolved, verified, and successfully delivered to users.
- Expand manual test case scenarios and keep existing ones up to date.
- Take ownership of complex testing areas and drive quality improvements through proactive initiatives.
- Monitor automated test execution results and troubleshoot test failures.
- Contribute to UI test automation by maintaining and extending automated tests using our established framework.
- Work closely with developers and product stakeholders to clarify requirements and identify risks when feature documentation is incomplete or evolving.
- Update the internal knowledge base and share expertise with team members.
- Cooperate with the support team to reproduce issues reported by our valued users.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on QA experience.
- Proficiency in spoken and written English.
- The ability to read and understand Java or Kotlin code.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams.
- The ability to grasp new concepts quickly and to work both in a team and independently.
- Strong prioritization skills and the ability to manage your own workload based on team goals.
- Experience testing developer tools, IDEs, and desktop applications.
- Programming skills in Kotlin or Java sufficient to extend and maintain existing UI tests written using internal testing frameworks.
- Experience working with Linux environments and an understanding of operating system fundamentals.
- An understanding of networking fundamentals and their impact on distributed systems.
Skills
- QA
- Java
- Kotlin
- Linux
- Networking
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive pay that reflects your skills and experience.
Benefits
- Flexible work location.
- Remote work up to 30 days per year from abroad.
- Extra time off.
- Medical insurance allowance.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Relocation support.
- Language classes.
- Hot meal or lunch allowance on workdays.
- Mental health support.
- Sports benefit.
- Internal events.
About the Company
- At JetBrains, we are passionate about building the strongest, most effective developer tools in the world.
- Our tools are designed to give developers the freedom to grow, discover, and create.
- Over 15 million users rely on our tools, and 88 of the Fortune Global Top 100 companies are our customers.
- Our products help our users stay focused on code design and the big picture, allowing them to deliver more creative and effective results.
- The remote development functionality in JetBrains products redirects IDE-heavy processing from a local machine to a powerful remote server, reimagining how teams work.
- With hardware performance no longer a limitation, developers can work from anywhere while benefiting from improved security, stability, and reliability.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We know great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. That’s why we do our best to create an open and inclusive workplace – one that welcomes everyone regardless of their background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation.
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