Manual QA Engineer

About The Role

We are looking for a middle or senior QA who can own product quality in a small team. This is a long-term job. The base load is 8 hours per week. If you can also cover light PM tasks (triage, backlog hygiene, preparing requirements), we can grow this to 10+ hours per week.

Product

US healthcare web platform. Reliability and data privacy matter. Expect regular releases and fast feedback loops.

What You Will Do

• Review requirements, ask the annoying questions early, catch gaps before dev is “done”
• Create and maintain test cases, checklists, and lightweight test plans
• Run functional, regression, and basic integration testing 
• Report bugs with clear reproduction steps, expected vs actual, severity, and evidence
• Validate data using SQL queries when needed
• Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot issues and verify fixes
   

Optional (PM Support)
 

• Triage incoming bugs and requests, keep the board clean, push items to “ready”
• Help turn raw ideas into clear tickets with acceptance criteria
• Coordinate small releases and follow ups across the team
• Keep basic product documentation
   

Requirements

• 3+ years in manual QA for web products (middle or senior level)
• Strong test design techniques and understanding of the test process
• API testing experience (Postman or similar)
• Confident with SQL for data validation
• Solid bug reporting and communication skills in English
• Independent, proactive, comfortable owning outcomes 
   

Nice To Have
 

• Basic test automation experience
• Experience with monitoring, dashboards, or production sanity checks
• Healthcare domain familiarity
• Experience testing performance or investigating stability issues

Format
 

• Part-time, hourly
• Remote
• Start with 8h/week, scale up if PM support is a fit