Senior QA Tester (UK or PH)

About us

Gelt is building a technology-driven tax company to become an alternative to the Big 4 by providing high-end tax solutions for businesses and high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) across the U.S. Our mission is to enable our clients to protect their capital from the government. We proactively analyze and structure our clients' financial lives to optimize tax liabilities while ensuring full legal compliance. We combine advanced technology with the expertise of our experienced team of US CPAs and tax professionals to deliver personalized, accurate, and efficient results. Over time, the speed and accuracy of our services improve through technology, evolving from CPAs powered by technology to technology operated by CPAs. Join us to build autonomous AI tax agents and the secure infrastructure behind them—so no one pays the government a dollar more than they should.

You will

• Be responsible for manual quality assurance tests on our web platform.
• Perform rigorous test scenarios to ensure thorough validation.
• Use exploratory testing to validate usability and uncover unexpected outcomes.
• Generate clear, actionable bug reports for the engineering teams.
• Support engineering teams in reproducing and debugging issues you’ve found.
• Update the team on progress, risks, and challenges in testing and QA activities.
• Ensure best-in-class quality of our tax automation and optimization services.
• Identify quality issues and see them through to resolution.
• Validate that the application UI matches designs from the Product team.
• Use tools to monitor for unexpected visual changes.
• Consider user experience, happy paths, negative testing, edge cases, and browser compatibility.
• Be available within core UK/Europe business hours to liaise with the R&D team.

We are looking for someone who has

• 7+ years of experience in manual web testing.
• A university degree or comparable professional qualification in Computer Science, IT, or Software Testing.
• Experience designing, implementing, and executing test plans and test cases.
• The ability to understand system architecture and apply that knowledge to white-box testing techniques.
• Creative, flexible, and dynamic approaches to testing.
• Broad knowledge of software testing best practices and experience applying them in CI/CD environments.
• Working understanding of REST APIs and how to test them.
• An understanding of usability and user experience principles.
• Strengths in working independently, managing workload, and setting priorities.
• Proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Clear reporting skills.
• Full professional English proficiency (spoken and written).

Our stack

• Backend: Node.js / TypeScript / Python
• Frontend: Vue 3 / TypeScript
• Cloud: AWS
• Databases: MongoDB / PostgreSQL
• CI/CD: GitHub / GitHub Actions / CDK / CloudFormation
• Automation: Playwright / Percy / Chromatic
• Tasks & knowledge base: Notion / Linear
• Communication: Slack / Zoom

We appreciate people who are

• Passionate about what they do.
• Fast and creative thinkers and doers.
• Friendly and approachable (good sense of humor is a must).
• Clear communicators at both technical and non-technical levels.