[Hiring] Manual QA Analyst @Magmalabs

Role Description

Join MagmaLabs, a leading provider of expert software engineers dedicated to helping companies achieve their goals across diverse, high-impact industries. We are actively seeking a seasoned Manual QA Analyst to join our fully remote team. In this role, you will own the human-judgment side of quality across legaltech, fintech, e-commerce, and other sectors where a single incorrect permission or a lost document version is a business problem, not a cosmetic one.

Are you a QA Analyst who decides what gets tested, not just someone who runs the cases another person wrote? Join our fully remote team and take ownership of:

• Test strategy
• Exploratory testing
• Production triage

This is the role that finds what a script never will. You will:

• Design test cases and test data that make complex scenarios reproducible
• Investigate what breaks in production and drive it to closure
• Identify what was not tested and what risk is still open when a release is on the table

If you believe that knowing what to skip is as much a skill as knowing what to check, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and acceptance criteria before development starts, and raise ambiguities and edge cases.
• Design, document, and maintain test cases and test plans, keeping them traceable from requirement to case to result to defect.
• Run exploratory testing with a defined charter and scope, and report findings that go beyond the scripted path.
• Own the manual regression scope: decide what is worth checking each release based on risk, not on habit.
• Triage production issues: reproduce, isolate, assign severity, escalate, and follow through until the fix is verified.
• Design and produce complex test data for scenarios involving multiple roles, permission levels, states, and high document volume.
• Validate permission hierarchies and tenant-level data isolation.
• Write defect reports that someone in another time zone can reproduce without asking a follow-up question.
• Report quality status and residual risk to stakeholders.
• Partner with automation engineers to hand off the cases that have stabilized.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software quality assurance experience, with at least 3 years testing complex, business-critical web applications.
• Strong command of test design techniques: equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision tables, and state transition testing.
• Demonstrated experience with exploratory testing as a disciplined practice.
• Experience triaging production issues, including the judgment to separate technical severity from business priority.
• Experience designing test data for scenarios with multiple roles, permissions, and states.
• Working knowledge of SQL to validate data at the source.
• Experience validating APIs with Postman or an equivalent tool.
• Proficiency with Jira and a test management tool such as TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, or an equivalent.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and collaborating effectively across time zones.
• Ability to hold a quality position under schedule pressure.

Benefits

• Professional development and mentorship opportunities.
• Work on impactful projects.
• Fully remote work environment.