Job Description

Recruiterflow brings AI-native intelligence and enterprise-grade depth to executive search and recruiting businesses worldwide. Over 1,700 agencies and 6,000+ recruiters across 90+ countries trust us to power their operations—from candidate sourcing to deal closure.

We’re led by second-time founders who’ve spent 13 years at the forefront of AI. We’re bootstrapped and profitable—growing on revenue, not venture capital. Our customers fund our roadmap because what we build actually works. We’ve launched industry-first capabilities repeatedly, and we’re not slowing down. We’re top 3 today. We’re building to be number one.

We are hiring QA Engineers who can do both manual testing and test automation. You will own quality end-to-end for the features, design and execute test cases, do exploratory and regression testing, and then automate the high-value flows in Playwright with TypeScript so they are protected forever. This is not a "manual now, automation later" role — both happen in the same sprint, by the same person.

Our stack is intentionally TypeScript end-to-end so QA and engineering share one language. Frontend engineers also contribute Playwright tests, so you will collaborate closely with developers and help shape conventions, frameworks, and CI pipelines.

Location: Bangalore (on-site)

Experience: 2 to 5 years in software quality assurance, with hands-on exposure to both manual testing and UI automation

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Number of openings: 2

Key Responsibilities

• Manual Testing & Quality Ownership
• Own quality for features — from requirements review through release sign-off.
• Design, document, and execute test cases covering functional, regression, integration, system, and exploratory testing across our web app, responsive mobile web, and Chrome extension.
• Participate in sprint planning, refinement, and stand-ups; review user stories and surface ambiguities before development starts.
• Reproduce, isolate, and document defects with clear repro steps, expected vs. actual behaviour, logs, and screenshots / recordings.
• Maintain test case repositories in Confluence, keep documentation current as features evolve.

Test Automation

• Design, build, and maintain UI and API automation in Playwright with TypeScript using Page Object Model, fixtures, and data-driven patterns.
• Write automation alongside the feature — not after release. Automate critical paths within the same sprint as the manual test pass.
• Build and maintain API test coverage using Playwright’s request fixture; supplement with Postman for exploratory and contract checks where appropriate.
• Tag, organise, and parallelise tests so the suite stays fast.
• Investigate and fix flaky tests with the same rigour as production bugs — flakiness erodes trust in the suite.
• Maintain CI/CD integration via Bitbucket Pipelines: PR validation, nightly cross-browser regression, post-deploy production smoke, and scheduled health checks.

Collaboration & Process

• Log, track, and report defects in Jira; collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile / Scrum environment with weekly releases.
• Partner with frontend engineers contributing their first Playwright tests — review their PRs and help establish conventions (data-testid usage, locator priorities, naming).
• Contribute to the weekly "escaped bug" review — when a production bug slips through, help analyse why and convert it into a permanent regression test.
• Report on quality metrics: open defects, severity distribution, regression coverage, automation suite runtime, and flake rate.

Must Have

• 2+ years of hands-on QA experience on web applications (SaaS / B2B preferred), with real exposure to BOTH manual testing and UI automation.
• Strong manual test design skills: equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis, decision tables, exploratory charters; the ability to write test cases that another QA could pick up and execute.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright (preferred) or a similar modern framework. Solid TypeScript / JavaScript fundamentals: async / await, promises, modules, basic typing, and the ES standard library.
• Working knowledge of test framework concepts: Page Object Model, fixtures, data-driven testing, parallel execution.
• Proficient at writing reliable selectors — prefers semantic locators (getByRole, getByLabel, getByTestId) but comfortable with XPath and handling dynamic elements when needed.
• Hands-on API testing experience: REST, JSON, auth flows. Comfortable with Postman and / or Playwright’s request fixture.
• Solid grasp of HTTP, browser developer tools (network tab, console, application storage), and cross-browser / responsive testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into a CI/CD pipeline — Bitbucket Pipelines preferred; Jenkins / GitHub Actions experience translates.
• Comfortable with Git workflows: feature branches, pull requests, code reviews.
• Experience with Jira for defect tracking and Confluence for documentation.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills — can isolate whether a failure is product, test, environment, or data, and act on it independently.
• Excellent written and verbal communication — your bug reports and test plans should be unmistakable.

Nice to Have

• Experience testing Chrome extensions or other browser-integrated products.
• Exposure to performance / load testing tools — k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Artillery.