Qa Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

QA Engineer (Backend): Owning quality across distributed backend systems, partnering closely with backend engineers to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure services. Focus on designing and maintaining automated test suites for API, integration, load, and performance testing and leveraging AI-assisted tools for analysis, test design, and investigation.

Location: Candidates must be available to work standard hours from 09:00 to 18:00 in the Western European Time (WET) zone (Portugal time zone), where most of the Engineering and Product teams are based.

Salary: Competitive compensation with structured performance and career development check-ins

Company

hirify.global creates the world’s most-played games for hirify.global.com, iOS, Android, and other big sites worldwide.

What you will do

• Own backend quality end-to-end for Core Tech services, aligning with QA standards and practices.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for API, integration, load, and performance testing.
• Collaborate with Core Tech engineers early in the development lifecycle to influence architecture, testability, and quality decisions.
• Take ownership of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring build, deployment, and test pipelines are reliable and visible.
• Perform targeted manual testing for complex flows and edge cases.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis, test design, and investigation.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a QA Engineer working with backend or platform systems.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership, and drive quality initiatives end to end.
• Comfortable adopting new tools and technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to improve efficiency and quality.
• Strong experience testing REST APIs and backend services.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks (Playwright primarily, and JavaScript/TypeScript preferred).
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with gRPC and/or WebSockets.
• Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger for API documentation, contract validation and test generation
• Experience with performance, load, and soak testing.
• Knowledge of security testing, especially around authentication and authorization.
• Familiarity with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

Culture & Benefits

• Structured performance and career development check-ins.
• Additional budget for conferences you are interested in.
• Personal development budget to fuel your passions and desire to learn.
• Time off from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
• Summer Fridays: Fridays off throughout the Summer.
• A unique culture of transparency, true teamwork, and fun.