General QA Engineer

We are looking for a General QA Engineer

About us Kyivstar.Tech is a Ukrainian hybrid IT company and a resident of Diia.City.

We are a subsidiary of Kyivstar, one of Ukraine’s largest telecom operators.

Our mission is to change lives in Ukraine and around the world by creating technological solutions and products that unleash the potential of businesses and meet users’ needs.

Over 700+ KS.

Tech specialists work daily in various areas

mobile and web solutions, as well as design, development, support, and technical maintenance of high-performance systems and services.

We believe in innovations that truly bring quality changes and constantly challenge conventional approaches and solutions.

Each of us is an adherent of entrepreneurial culture, which allows us never to stop, to evolve, and to create something new.

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 and experience needed

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

Nice to have

Telecom domain experience

billing, charging, provisioning

Kafka or RabbitMQ

Docker, Kubernetes

High-load systems experience

What we offer

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