Intermediate Quality Assurance (QA)

AB InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top 5 consumer product companies. With over 500 beer brands, we’re number one or two in many of the world’s top beer markets, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

• Participate in agile ceremonies such as refinement, planning, daily meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support quality from the requirements phase by contributing to shift-left validation practices.
• Analyze requirements and break them down into test scenarios with clear coverage of main flows and common edge cases.
• Support the definition of clear, testable acceptance criteria for backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform features.
• Design, execute, and maintain functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and API tests.
• Create and maintain automated tests for stable and high-value backend scenarios.
• Execute automated tests and maintain existing scripts following established patterns and guidelines.
• Validate service behavior, API contracts, error handling, logs, data consistency, and backend workflows.
• Identify, log, and track defects clearly and objectively, including steps, evidence, impact, and priority.
• Monitor test execution results and contribute to quality reporting and visibility.
• Organize testing activities based on sprint priorities and communicate risks when scope, time, or quality is impacted.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve quality concerns early.
• Contribute to root cause analysis and suggest preventive improvements when relevant.
• Follow established QA processes and contribute to their continuous improvement.
• Share knowledge, testing practices, and feedback with junior QAs and team members.

What You’ll Need

• Experience as a QA Engineer, preferably in backend, platform, or technical product teams.
• Strong experience testing APIs, services, integrations, and backend workflows.
• Experience creating and executing automated API/backend tests.
• Solid understanding of software testing fundamentals, including functional, regression, exploratory, integration, and acceptance testing.
• Ability to break requirements into test scenarios and identify main flows, edge cases, and quality risks.
• Good understanding of HTTP, REST APIs, status codes, authentication, request/response validation, and API contracts.
• Intermediate knowledge of database validation, debugging, and log analysis.
• Experience using test management and bug tracking tools such as Jira, Zephyr, or similar.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution in delivery workflows.
• Ability to work in agile environments using Scrum, Kanban, or similar methodologies.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders.
• Organized, proactive, accountable, and comfortable managing assigned testing activities within agreed deadlines.

Nice to Have

• Experience with contract testing, performance testing, reliability testing, or security testing fundamentals.
• Knowledge of cloud environments, containers, Kubernetes, or infrastructure concepts.
• Experience testing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or asynchronous workflows.
• Experience with observability tools, including logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, or monitoring platforms.
• Experience contributing to release decisions with risk awareness.
• Ability to support RCA and suggest preventive improvements.
• Experience mentoring junior QAs or sharing QA best practices with developers.
• Intermediate English communication skills, written and spoken.

More About You

• You understand that quality starts early in the development lifecycle.
• You are comfortable working close to backend engineers and discussing technical behavior.
• You are analytical, curious, and able to investigate issues using logs, data, and system evidence.
• You communicate risks clearly and proactively.
• You balance autonomy with collaboration, asking for guidance when scenarios are complex.
• You care about maintainable automation and practical test coverage.
• You continuously look for ways to improve QA practices, team processes, and delivery quality.