Senior QA Engineer (Manual + Light Automation)

📢 Hiring: Senior QA Engineer (Manual + Light Automation)

🏢 Company: Kennel Connection
💵 Salary: $1,800–$2,500 USD/month
🕐 Job Type: Full-time, Long-term
🌍 Location: Remote (Ukraine preferred)
⏰ Timezone: 4+ hours daily overlap with EST
🗣️ English: B2 or better
✅ Direct Hire – Product Company (NOT outsourcing)

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🐾 About Us
Kennel Connection is a US-based SaaS company serving pet care businesses. We are a product company, not an agency — we own and develop our software in-house and are building a long-term team.

🎯 Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior QA Engineer to own quality across our web application. This is a manual-first role with light automation — you will spend most of your time designing test plans, executing them, and finding issues before our customers do. You will also build and maintain a growing layer of automated regression tests where it makes sense.

You will work directly with developers, product, and support. This is a senior role with real ownership — not a junior tester following someone else's scripts.

🛠️ What You'll Do
• Design and execute test plans for new features and regression cycles
• Catch issues before release — functional, UX, edge cases, data integrity
• Write, organize, and maintain test cases in Azure DevOps
• File clean, reproducible bug reports developers can actually act on
• Build out light test automation (browser-based, API-level) where it pays off
• Use AI tools to work faster — generating test cases, drafting bug reports, exploring edge cases, and writing automation scripts
• Help shape our overall QA process and release workflow
• Collaborate closely with developers, product, and support

🔎 What We're Looking For
• 5+ years of commercial QA experience
• Strong manual testing skills on web applications
• Experience testing ASP.NET / browser-based SaaS products
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (or similar — Jira, TestRail)
• Some experience writing automated tests (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar — we're not picky about the tool)
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.) to accelerate test case writing, bug reproduction, and automation scripting
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Clear, written English (B2+) — you will write a lot of bug reports and documentation
• Looking for a stable, long-term role — not a short project

⭐ Nice to Have
• SQL skills for verifying test data
• Experience working with US-based product teams
• Background in SaaS for SMB customers

🎁 We Offer
• Long-term role in a stable, profitable SaaS company
• Real ownership of QA across the product
• Direct collaboration with developers and product — no layers of bureaucracy
• Friendly, supportive team
• Salary growth based on impact
• Flexible hours (with 4 hour EST overlap)

🇺🇦 Ми дуже доброзичлива компанія до України.
🇺🇦 Підтримуємо талановитих українських фахівців.