[Hiring] General QA Engineer @Kyivstar

Role Description

We are looking for a General QA Engineer.

What you will do:

• Work in a cross-functional team with product managers, analysts, and developers on a high-load telecom platform
• Test management (plan, test scenarios design, execution, follow-up, control)
• API and integration testing across microservices
• Performance and load testing
• Test automation and support of existing test builds
• Regression testing
• Testing reporting and documentation

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant working experience as a QA Engineer with a backend focus
• Strong backend testing experience: verifying end-to-end data flow between services, databases, and message brokers, not only endpoint responses
• Great knowledge of automation tools and Java/TypeScript, with integration into CI pipelines
• Performance testing experience: load profiles, test execution, interpreting latency, throughput, and error rate
• Excellent requirements analysis skills — identifying gaps and ambiguities before development starts
• Experience of composing test strategies and test plans
• Test design techniques knowledge
• Confident knowledge of testing methodologies
• SQL knowledge: complex queries with joins and aggregations, data integrity checks
• Linux/UNIX command line: log analysis, basic bash
• Practical skills with Git: branching, merging, code review
• Experience with MOCK-SERVER or a similar tool for isolating dependencies
• Knowledge of TCP, HTTP
• Understanding of client-server and microservices architectures: inter-service communication, failure points, idempotency
• Good knowledge of Postman, IntelliJ IDEA, Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Zephyr), GitLab, Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana
• Higher technical education or equivalent relevant experience
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment in close collaboration with the development team
• Excellent analytical skills, critical mindset
• Strong communication and troubleshooting skills
• English is spoken and written on the intermediate level or higher

Requirements

• Telecom domain experience: billing, charging, provisioning (nice to have)
• Kafka or RabbitMQ (nice to have)
• Docker, Kubernetes (nice to have)
• High-load systems experience (nice to have)

Benefits

• Office or remote — it’s up to you
• You can work from anywhere, and we will arrange your workplace
• Remote onboarding
• Performance bonuses for everyone (annual or quarterly depends on the role)
• We train employees: the opportunity to learn through the company’s own library, internal resources, and programs from partners
• Health and life insurance
• Wellbeing program and corporate psychologist