Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Institute of Free Technology is seeking a Part time Manual QA / Product Tester to support testing across the Status app and related product surfaces. The role involves exploratory testing, reporting issues, and collaborating with QA automation engineers to ensure quality in the app's features and user experience.
Responsibilities
- Exploratory testing of existing app features and reporting functional, UI, and UX issues based on guidance from the Product Lead
- Testing newly developed features and product improvements before release
- Testing features and retesting fixes in release builds when preparing new app releases
- Reproducing bugs and gathering useful details to help developers understand the issue, including steps to reproduce, screenshots, screen recordings, device information, and expected vs. actual behavior
- Working with QA automation engineers to ensure manually identified bugs are reviewed for automation where relevant
- Occasionally checking the website, Apple App Store, and Google Play product pages to make sure there are no obvious issues
- Reviewing product requirements for new features from a user perspective and flagging anything that feels unclear, confusing, or difficult to use
- Documenting how features work in the app based on hands-on exploration and testing
Skills
- Experience with manual QA, product testing, app testing, or a strong interest in developing in this area
- Should be a strong mobile messenger app user. Experience with crypto wallets and mobile browsers is a strong plus
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to spot inconsistencies, bugs, or confusing user flows
- Clear written communication and the ability to document issues in a structured way
- A user-focused mindset and willingness to test features from the perspective of real users
- Comfort using and testing mobile and desktop applications
- Ability to follow testing guidance, ask good questions, and work collaboratively with Product, Engineering, and QA
- Curious about leveraging AI in manual and semi-manual testing to optimize and reduce repetitive QA work
- Experience testing iOS, Android, desktop (Windows/MacOS), or web applications
- Familiarity with bug-tracking tools or release testing processes
- Experience writing documentation, test notes, or issue reports
- Interest in crypto, wallets, messaging apps, or privacy-focused products
Company Overview
As a mission-driven tech startup studio, Institute of Free Technology provides Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects such as: Logos: https://logos.co Status: https://status.app/ Nimbus: https://nimbus.team/ Keycard: https://keycard.tech/ We take ideas from the drawing board to market; our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age. It was founded in 2024, and is headquartered in , with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://free.technology/.