{"id":2813164,"url":"https://alion.io/job/coditude-manual-qa-engineer","title":"Manual QA Engineer","company":{"id":4442740,"name":"Coditude","domain":"coditude.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/coditude","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Keka","truth_index":null},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Postman","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Lighthouse","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-24T10:42:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-24","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T19:13:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":56,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":56},"description":"Key Responsibilities\nOwn the complete manual testing lifecycle for assigned features, end to end, on your own.\nPerform functional, UI/UX, regression, smoke, exploratory, and ad-hoc testing.\nTest features before code merge (PR testing) and again after deployment.\nTest at the backend and API level - validate data, business logic, and integrations, not just the UI.\nUse AI tools effectively to speed up testing - generating test ideas, test data, edge cases, and bug reports - while using good judgment about what the AI gets right and wrong.\n Read basic code changes to understand what to test and reason about whether an issue is frontend or backend.\nFind functional defects, UI inconsistencies, usability issues, and edge cases - often without a written spec.\nPrioritise defects by severity and business impact, and know what to test first when you can't test everything.\nWrite clear, detailed bug reports with reproduction steps, expected vs actual results, severity, and priority.\nCollaborate closely with developers to validate fixes and resolve issues quickly.\nExecute rapid testing cycles to keep up with frequent daily releases.\nMaintain lightweight test checklists and quality notes suited to a fast, low-documentation environment.\nAI & Technical Skills (Core - what makes this role different)\nThese are central to the role, not optional:\n Effective AI tool usage. Real, hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) to speed up QA work - test case and test data generation, edge-case discovery, debugging, and bug reporting - with sound judgment about AI output (not blindly trusting it).\n Claude Code knowledge. Working familiarity with Claude Code (Anthropic's agentic coding tool) for AI-assisted testing and understanding code, or a strong willingness and ability to pick it up quickly.\nBackend testing. Able to verify data and business logic behind the screen - checking databases and stored values, not just the UI.\n API testing. Comfortable testing APIs (e.g. Postman) - validating requests/responses, status codes, authentication, and error handling.\n Basic coding skills. Able to read and understand basic code (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript or similar), reason about a code change, and tell frontend issues from backend ones using browser DevTools.\nRequired Skills (Core)\n3.5+ years of manual testing experience.\n Strong UI bug-identification skills - a sharp eye for visual and UI defects: alignment, spacing, and layout issues, overlapping or misplaced elements, and inconsistent fonts, colours, and styling. Comfortable with cross-browser and responsive/cross-device testing (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge across mobile, tablet, and desktop), able to compare the built UI against the intended design to catch discrepancies, and check UI states such as hover, disabled, loading, empty, and error.\n Strong ad-hoc and exploratory testing ability - able to learn an app quickly and find bugs without pre-written test cases or documentation.\nComfortable working with minimal documentation and taking full ownership of quality decisions independently.\nComfortable in a high-release, fast-paced environment (multiple releases per day).\nStrong understanding of SDLC and STLC.\nExperience with smoke, regression, functional, and exploratory testing.\nKnowledge of test design techniques - Boundary Value Analysis (BVA), Equivalence Partitioning, and others.\nAbility to prioritise defects based on severity and business impact.\nComfortable documenting and tracking defects clearly (we're flexible on tools - no specific ticketing tool required).\nExcellent verbal and written communication - essential for a remote, independent role.\nStrong analytical skills, high attention to detail, and a genuine ownership mindset.\nPreferred / Nice to Have\nExperience testing responsive web applications across multiple browsers and devices.\nFamiliarity with performance/quality auditing (e.g. Lighthouse).\nAbility to manage multiple testing priorities at once.\nExposure to modern, AI-assisted product development practices.\nWho This Role Is NOT For\nTo help candidates self-select (and save everyone time), this role is likely not a fit if you:\nNeed detailed requirements, specs, or a defined QA process before you can start testing.\nOnly test the UI and are not willing to engage with code, APIs, backend data, or AI tools.\nPrefer a structured, slower release cycle with heavy documentation.\nAre you looking for a QA lead or team-management position (this is a hands-on, individual-contributor role).","description_format":"text","description_chars":4516,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-18T10:51:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":16,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.455,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":55,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/coditude-manual-qa-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/coditude-manual-qa-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T22:32:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1462,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4442740},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4442740"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcoditude-manual-qa-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcoditude-manual-qa-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcoditude-manual-qa-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/coditude-manual-qa-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcoditude-manual-qa-engineer"}]}