QA Engineer (Referral program)

About the role

You'll help ensure the quality and reliability of one of Salmon's key growth products by testing and improving customer-facing referral experiences.

What you'll work on

• A referral platform used by promoters, partners, and customers across the Philippines

• Product initiatives including PWA migration, Agent App integration, and new tools for referral program growth

• Customer-facing workflows where product quality directly affects acquisition, activation, and partner engagement

What you'll be responsible for

• Test new product features and improvements across referral and promoter-facing applications

• Design and execute test scenarios using structured test design techniques

• Build and maintain API test coverage using Postman, Newman, Supertest, or similar tools

• Validate user journeys, usability, and interface quality across web applications

• Verify application behavior across different browsers, devices, and operating systems

• Perform performance testing and analyze system behavior under load

• Identify, document, and investigate defects, risks, and quality issues

• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to improve release confidence and test coverage

• Partner with Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to maintain quality throughout the development lifecycle

What we need

• 3+ years of experience testing web applications

• Strong manual testing skills and experience creating test cases and test documentation

• Experience testing REST APIs and GraphQL services

• Hands-on experience with Postman, Newman, Supertest, or similar API testing tools

• Understanding of modern frontend applications and rendering approaches, including SSR, SSG, and client-side rendering

• Experience with cross-browser and cross-device testing

• Familiarity with browser developer tools and debugging techniques

• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD workflows

• Good understanding of software testing principles, test design techniques, and quality assurance practices

Good to have

• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6

• Understanding of common web security risks, including XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection

• Experience working on growth, referral, marketplace, or other customer-facing products