Manual QA Tester (High Growth Path)

Archdesk Manual QA Tester (High Growth Path)

Location: Kraków (PL) hybrid

• Remote in Poland possible

• Collaboration with teams in UK & Dubai

• Global customer base

Engagement: B2B (preferred) or Employment Contract - flexible

Level: Early-career / High-potential (Junior+/Mid) with an accelerated path to autonomy & ownership

Start: As soon as available

Quick Pitch

Looking for a classic “Manual QA” gig where you just click through scripts? This isn’t it. Archdesk is building a category-defining, multi-module ERP platform for the construction ecosystem: complex real-world workflows, high data volumes, rich integrations, and constant evolution. We want someone whose core craft is hands-on manual software testing and who gets energized by understanding how a system really works end to end. If you love digging into business logic, chasing weird edge cases, learning fast, and steadily taking more responsibility, you’ll feel at home.

We value your learning velocity, pattern recognition, systems thinking, and disciplined curiosity over the length of your CV. If you ramp quickly, you’ll grow into a domain expert who influences quality strategy, AI-augmented testing, and ultimately product outcomes.

Why Join Archdesk

• Real complexity to explore: Multi-tenant SaaS ERP spanning finance, project management, supply chain, field ops, documents, controlling, and 3rd-party integrations.

• Impact over bureaucracy: Small, senior, execution-focused teams shipping to real customers on real projects globally.

• Mentorship + runway: Work directly with very experienced engineers, product leaders, and QA/DevOps specialists; structured support to go from guided to self-directed quickly.

• Growth into ownership: Expect to move from executing tests to defining test strategy for modules, driving bug triage, and shaping automation/AI approaches.

• AI transition ahead: We’re actively exploring AI-assisted and AI-generated testing, LLM-driven data generation, RAG-based documentation search, and workflow automation (n8n). Help us make it real.

The Core of the Role: Manual QA First

Your first months are about excellent manual testing execution across web UI, REST APIs, data workflows, and integrations. Depth beats volume. Quality beats velocity until you have the context to safely accelerate both.

You will:

• Plan, design, and execute manual functional, exploratory, regression, and smoke tests across complex ERP workflows.

• Validate cross-module scenarios (finance > project > procurement) and multi-entity data consistency.

• Test REST/JSON APIs (Postman or equivalent) to confirm backend behavior, error handling, and contract changes.

• Document clear reproduction paths, expected vs. actual results, severity/impact context.

• Confirm fixes and guard against regression in upcoming sprints.

Reality check: Expect that roughly 70-85% of your early workload is structured and exploratory manual testing. As you ramp, more analysis, tooling, and AI/automation contribution comes into play.

Learning & Growth Path (Indicative)

Month 0-1: Environment setup; guided test execution; learn product modules, test management conventions, data sets.

Month 2-3: Own test coverage for selected feature areas; write and refine test charters; contribute to release sign-off notes.

Month 4-6: Operate largely self-directed in an assigned domain area; collaborate with Dev/Product to tighten acceptance criteria; lead regression packs for sprint releases.

Month 6-12: Expand scope across modules; propose risk-based test strategies; help design AI-assisted test data generation or smoke flows; contribute input on which manual paths should be automated.

Trajectory depends on initiative, disciplined follow-through, and the ability to reason about complex systems quickly.

Mindset We Click With

• Learns fast from incomplete info and seeks patterns across domains (connect the dots rather than memorize steps).

• Curiosity + precision: digs until the behavior is explained; records findings cleanly.

• Self-organizing: plans daily testing blocks; tracks progress without hand-holding.

• Evidence-driven: uses data, logs, and reproducible steps; no vague bug reports.

• Comfort in the deep end: explores unfamiliar parts of the product; treats new tech as a puzzle, not a blocker.

• Quality advocate, not gatekeeper: partners with Dev/Product to prevent defects, not just detect them.

What You’ll Do - Detailed Responsibilities

Manual Test Design & Execution

• Derive test scenarios from user stories, acceptance criteria, production incidents, and exploratory sessions.

• Create, organize, and maintain manual test cases and charters (risk-based, data-driven where useful).

• Execute structured regression packs before releases; capture evidence.

Exploratory & Domain Deep Dives

• Perform session-based exploratory testing in complex ERP flows (multi-currency, approvals, subcontractors, cost tracking).

• Identify cross-module breakpoints caused by configuration variance across customers.

API, Data & Integration Validation

• Use Postman / Thunder Client / curl to exercise REST endpoints; validate contracts and error codes.

• Run targeted SQL queries to confirm backend state, data integrity, and side effects of workflows.

• Validate 3rd-party integrations (finance, document storage, field data, etc.).

Defect Discovery, Analysis & Communication

• Capture logs, screenshots, payloads; link to story/commit when possible.

• Support triage: severity, impact radius, repro steps, suspected area of code.

Quality Collaboration Inside Agile Delivery

• Participate in backlog refinement to shape testable acceptance criteria.

• Surface test data needs early; help define done criteria that include quality signals.

• Contribute to sprint reviews, release readiness checks, and post-release quality retros.

Contribute to the Future (AI & Automation)

• Tag repeatable high-value manual flows as automation candidates.

• Experiment with AI-assisted test idea generation, data fabrication, or result summarization (LLMs, RAG over docs, n8n flows).

• Provide labeled examples to help train and validate AI-driven test heuristics.

Skills & Experience - Must Have

• 1-3+ years of hands-on manual software testing (functional and exploratory) in web applications or SaaS products. (If you have less but can demonstrate exceptional learning velocity and systems reasoning, make the case.)

• Ability to design and execute clear, repeatable manual test cases and exploratory charters.

• Working knowledge of REST API testing using tools like Postman (payloads, headers, status codes, JSON structures).

• Comfortable reading and writing basic SQL SELECT queries to validate data and troubleshoot defects.

• Experience working in Agile / Scrum / Kanban delivery environments.

• Familiar with issues and knowledge tools (Jira, Confluence or similar).

• Communicates findings clearly in Polish and  English (written and spoken). 

• Disciplined personal workflow: tracks tasks, test evidence, and follow-ups reliably.

Skills & Experience - Great to Have / Will Learn Here

• Exposure to large business / ERP / finance / supply chain systems.

• Experience with observability stacks (Elastic/Kibana/OpenSearch, Grafana) for log- and metric-driven debugging.

• Test documentation frameworks.

• Scripting or lightweight automation in Python, TypeScript, or Go.

• Browser automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium) - interest counts; we’ll teach.

• CI/CD familiarity (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).

• Linux comfort: navigating logs, basic shell commands, inspecting containers.

• Curiosity about AI in QA: LLM prompting, RAG doc search, n8n automation pipelines, AI-assisted exploratory heuristics.

• ISTQB Foundation or equivalent knowledge (formal cert nice but not required).

Compensation

B2B: 11 000 - 15 000 / UoP: 8 500 - 11 500 PLN gross.

Exact offer depends on skills depth, independence at start, and the pace you demonstrate during ramp.

What You’ll Get

• Accelerated learning in a sophisticated product domain with real industry impact.

• Direct access to senior engineers, architects, and product experts; fast feedback loops.

• Freedom to explore tooling and approaches that improve quality (backed by evidence).

• International exposure: customers and teammates across Europe, Middle East, and beyond.

• Flexibility: hybrid/remote work in Poland; periodic in-person team sessions (Kraków HQ hub).

• Competitive, growth-aligned compensation that rewards impact over tenure.

Sound like a fit? If you see yourself on this path - craft focused, curious, disciplined, and ready to grow from Manual QA into broader quality ownership - we want to meet you.