QA Engineer

About this role

Colonist seeks a hands-on QA Engineer to own product quality for a digital board game platform with millions of players. Beyond identifying bugs, you'll fix issues directly in the codebase, drive end-to-end solutions, and proactively improve QA processes across web, mobile, and Discord platforms in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.

What you'll do

• Fix quality issues directly in the codebase and drive larger fixes end-to-end
• Run weekly QA sessions on dev and staging builds with post-release production checks
• Test pull requests across happy paths, edge cases, and multiple platforms
• Monitor Discord bug channels, validate player reports, and create structured tickets
• Identify UX problems and product issues beyond traditional bugs
• Proactively find gaps in QA processes and propose improvements

What they're looking for

• Full-cycle QA (test planning, execution, reporting, follow-through)
• Web, mobile, and Discord platform testing
• Code literacy and ability to submit PRs for smaller fixes
• Async written communication and structured bug reporting
• AI tools proficiency
• GitHub, Linear, and BrowserStack experience
• Test automation (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress) — bonus
• Multiplayer or real-time game QA experience — bonus

Benefits

• Fully remote, asynchronous work culture focused on outcomes
• Unlimited vacation and yearly team offsite
• Stock options to own a piece of the company
• Full work equipment provided
• Budget to experiment with any AI tool
• Access to all company metrics and internal discussions