QA Tester

**Position**: Quality Assurance Tester

**Working Hours**: We are asynchronous, work when you want

**Location**: Fully Remote

**Salary Range**: $700 - $1,500 USD/month

**Eligible Locations**: Anywhere, with a preference for Asia and South America

**About Colonist**:
We're building the biggest digital board game platform on the internet. Last year, our players spent 874 years playing 33 million games on our Settlers of Catan alternative. We're a fully remote, asynchronous team spread across multiple continents, focused on crafting extremely polished digital board games that people truly love.

**About the Role**:
As a QA Tester at Colonist, you'll be the guardian of quality for our platform used by millions of players. You'll play a crucial role in ensuring our games are polished, performant, and bug-free. This position offers the opportunity to develop your testing expertise while working on a product that brings joy to players worldwide.

**What You'll Do**:

- Conduct thorough testing across our platform, identifying bugs, inconsistencies, and performance issues
- Create detailed, actionable bug reports with comprehensive reproduction steps
- Design and document test scenarios, particularly focusing on edge cases
- Perform post-release testing to ensure smooth deployments
- Develop and maintain testing checklists and processes
- Create and enhance automation tests to improve testing efficiency
- Collaborate with the development team to verify fixes and improvements
- Generate clear summary reports to keep the team informed of quality status

**Requirements**:

- +1 year of experience as a QA tester
- Strong attention to detail and pattern recognition abilities
- Critical thinking skills with a methodical approach to testing
- Excellent written English communication skills
- Experience with bug tracking and test case documentation
- Understanding of user experience principles
- Ability to work independently and proactively identify issues
- Experience with gaming platforms and strong gaming intuition
- Proven track record of improving product quality through testing

**Nice to Have**:

- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, EJS, and TypeScript
- Familiarity with Browser Dev Tools
- Experience with GitHub and VSCode
- Background in game testing or the gaming industry
- Experience with automated testing frameworks
- Knowledge of accessibility testing

**What We Value**:
At Colonist, we look for people who are:
**Dependable & Self-Driven**
- Deliver on time without needing constant guidance
- Stay active and responsive in team communications

**Owners & Problem Solvers**
- Take full responsibility and uphold high standards
- Proactively improve processes beyond your role

**Clear & Efficient Communicators**
- Excel at direct, structured async communication
- Set clear expectations and deliver results

**Fast Learners**
- Curious, open to feedback, and eager to grow
- Love tackling challenging problems with simple solutions

**Benefits and Compensation**:
**Compensation**
- Competitive salary paid in USD
- Stock options (own a piece of Colonist)

**Benefits**
- Fully remote work
- Flexible hours - Work on your own time, we're async
- Unlimited vacation
- Reimbursed Colonist Elite Membership
- All tool costs, like software, laptop, etc provided
- Infinite Colonist Coins

**Growth**
- Work directly impacts 5M+ yearly active players
- Rapid learning opportunities in a fast-paced startup environment
- Freedom to identify and solve problems
- Access to all company metrics and discussions