QA Engineer

About Huzzle At Huzzle, we connect exceptional talent with top opportunities at leading companies across the UK, US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Our clients include fast-growing startups, SaaS platforms, and digital-first businesses. Unlike traditional outsourcing models, you are placed directly with a client as an in-house team member, contributing to impactful, real-world products. Role Type: Full-time Engagement: Independent Contractor About the Company Our client is a fast-growing performance marketing agency that helps direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands scale profitably through Paid Media, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), creative strategy, and conversion-focused publisher networks. Acting as an extension of their clients’ in-house growth teams, they specialize in rapid testing, high-converting funnels, and data-driven experimentation to drive measurable revenue growth. Job Summary We're looking for a detail-oriented QA Engineer to join one of our growing client teams. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about software quality, testing best practices, and delivering exceptional user experiences. You'll work closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure applications meet the highest standards before release. Whether you specialize in manual testing, automated testing, or both, you'll play a key role in identifying issues, improving product reliability, and helping build software that customers love. Key Responsibilities Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases. Perform manual functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and user acceptance testing. Develop and maintain automated test scripts where applicable. Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects. Work closely with software engineers to reproduce and resolve bugs. Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning. Validate new features, enhancements, and bug fixes before deployment. Perform API testing and verify backend functionality. Test web, mobile, and cloud-based applications across multiple browsers and devices. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve overall software quality. Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, documentation, and testing standards. Monitor application performance and usability during testing. Support production releases and perform post-release validation. Requirements 2+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance (QA) or Software Testing. Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Agile/Scrum methodologies. Experience performing both manual and automated testing across web, mobile, or SaaS applications. Proficiency with QA and testing tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, Postman, Swagger, JMeter, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Jira, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, BrowserStack, and similar industry-standard platforms. Familiarity with programming or scripting languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, C#, or SQL. Experience testing APIs, databases, cross-browser functionality, performance, and cloud-based applications using modern QA tools and frameworks. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering and product teams. Comfortable working independently in a fully remote, fast-paced environment. Nice to have: experience testing SaaS or mobile applications (iOS/Android), accessibility (WCAG), security or penetration testing, AI-assisted testing tools, distributed remote teams, and an ISTQB certification. Benefits 💰 Competitive salary based on experience and seniority 🚀 Work on impactful, user-facing products with a global reach 📈 Clear career progression in a high-growth tech environment 🌎 Fully remote role with an international team. 🎓 Access to ongoing learning and professional development. 🤝 Collaborative engineering culture with modern development practices.