Intermediate Quality Assurance (QA)

The role

You will contribute to the quality of backend services, APIs, integrations, internal tools, and platform capabilities. You will participate in the development lifecycle from requirements refinement to release validation within an agile team.

What you will do

• Participate in agile ceremonies such as refinement, planning, daily meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support quality from the requirements phase through shift-left validation practices.
• Analyze requirements and break them down into test scenarios.
• Support the definition of 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.
• Validate service behavior, API contracts, error handling, logs, data consistency, and backend workflows.
• Identify, log, and track defects.
• Monitor test execution results and contribute to quality reporting.

Required qualifications

• Experience as a QA Engineer.
• 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 in backend, platform, or technical product teams.
• 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.

Benefits

• Performance based bonus*
• Attendance Bonus*
• Private pension plan
• Meal Allowance
• Casual office and dress code
• Days off*
• Health, dental, and life insurance
• Medicines discounts
• WellHub partnership
• Childcare subsidies
• Discounts on Ambev products*
• Clube Ben partnership

About the company

AB InBev is a leading global brewer and one of the world's top 5 consumer product companies. BEES is AB InBev's B2B platform used by merchants and retailers across 29 countries.