Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Quality Assurance Specialist to join our Baltic IT team. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative application solutions. We prioritize modern technologies, innovative design, and user-centric experiences. If you excel at identifying issues, take a structured approach to testing, and thrive in a collaborative Agile environment, we would be pleased to hear from you.

As a Senior Quality Assurance Specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring that our applications provide seamless, high-quality experiences to our users. You will work in close collaboration with developers, product owners, analysts, and designers, applying your expertise in testing and problem-solving to deliver exceptional results. In addition, you will actively contribute to the Baltic Quality Engineering community, helping to shape and maintain our Quality Engineering guidelines and best practices.

What are you going to do?

• Create and execute test plans and cases that cover all aspects of our applications
• Dive into manual testing to catch those hard-to-spot issues, from UI glitches to tricky edge cases
• Contribute to building and maintaining automated tests, in collaboration with test automation specialists
• Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot and reproduce bugs, making sure issues are resolved quickly
• Participate in Agile ceremonies like sprint planning and retrospectives, contributing to continuous improvement
• Bring a proactive mindset, identifying risks and improvement opportunities before they become problems

What do we expect from you?

Must have

• Several years of experience in quality engineering, with strong hands-on experience in testing both APIs and GUIs
• Strong understanding of quality processes and methodologies
• Experience with API testing tools like Postman, Insomnia or similar
• Familiarity with JSON, XML, and API authentication mechanisms (e.g., OAuth)
• Basic understanding of databases and SQL
• Comfortable working in Agile teams and collaborating with cross-functional teammates
• You are a team player, can collaborate effectively with others
• Day-to-day responsibilities require a good level of English to communicate with stakeholders and colleagues from different countries
• Excellent communication skills and a self-driven, can-do attitude
• Experience in collaborating with developers, product owners, analysts, and designers

Nice to have

• Knowledge of one or more programming languages
• ISTQB certification
• Hands-on knowledge and proficiency with test automation tools and frameworks

Our promise to you

• Monthly salary: €3300 – €4000 gross depending on your qualifications
• Strong company culture: knowledge sharing, company events, interesting speakers, and other inspiring initiatives
• Career and development opportunities (e.g. 3 dedicated up-skilling days) in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics
• Challenging and exciting projects with autonomy to plan own tasks
• Extra vacation days, annual bonus, great insurance benefits, discounts on our products for you and your family, gifts, etc.
• Possibility of hybrid work, where office is our primary workplace
• A recently renovated office in Riga centre with a 24/7 gym on the premises
• Business trips to Baltic and Nordic countries

Read more about benefits for our employees

Application deadline: September 10, 2025 

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