Quick Summary
Development QA Specialist
Growmodo, a fully remote, subscription-based design and development agency supporting fast-growing startups and scale-ups worldwide, is seeking a detail-driven Development QA Specialist. This role is crucial for maintaining exceptional quality standards across all development projects.
Working Hours: Mondays - Fridays, 8am-5pm Central European Time
As a Development QA professional, you will safeguard the quality of all development deliverables before they reach production. This involves systematic testing, validating compliance with design and technical standards, identifying risks early, and ensuring only stable, production-ready work is delivered across multiple projects and platforms.
About You
You combine technical literacy, structured testing discipline, and strong ownership. You understand how websites function (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and have hands-on experience with platforms like WordPress, WebFlow, or Shopify. You can confidently identify layout issues, responsiveness problems, CMS conflicts, and integration bugs across browsers and devices.
You approach QA systematically, building repeatable checklists, writing clear and reproducible bug reports, and validating staging-to-production environments with precision. Proactive and detail-driven, you anticipate edge cases, communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, and ensure only stable, production-ready work moves forward.
Key Responsibilities (What You’ll Own)
Quality Assurance & Testing
- Conduct daily QA reviews on development deliverables.
- Test responsiveness, cross-browser compatibility, and device performance.
- Identify bugs, regressions, and edge cases with clear and reproducible documentation.
- Review code quality, structure, and maintainability in alignment with development standards.
- Ensure all deliverables meet functional, technical, and performance expectations before deployment.
Standards & Technical Compliance
- Maintain and continuously improve structured QA checklists across various development types (front-end, back-end, CMS, integrations, automations).
- Verify alignment with approved UI/UX designs and specifications.
- Ensure compliance with platform standards (e.g., CMS best practices, framework constraints).
- Validate proper handling of errors, validations, loading states, and edge cases.
- Support accessibility, security, and performance best practices.
Process Improvement & Workflow Improvement
- Identify recurring technical issues, code quality gaps, and workflow inefficiencies.
- Recommend improvements to reduce rework and recurring defects.
- Contribute to documentation of QA standards, common issue patterns, and best practices.
- Ensure feedback loops are closed and all required fixes are verified before final delivery.
Reporting & Communication
- Track and report QA metrics such as bug frequency, severity, and rework rates.
- Provide clear, actionable feedback to developers and project teams.
- Communicate QA findings, risks, and corrective actions effectively.
- Maintain accurate and organized QA documentation for reference and audits.
Quality Advocacy
- Champion reliability, scalability, and clean execution across all projects.
- Act as a quality gatekeeper to ensure only stable, production-ready work progresses.
- Stay updated on development best practices, platform updates, and emerging testing.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) sufficient to identify rendering issues, layout breaks, and interaction bugs across browsers and devices.
- Hands-on experience with cross-browser and cross-device testing using tools like BrowserStack, LambdaTest, or similar.
- Working knowledge of responsive design principles and ability to validate layouts across breakpoints.
- Experience with bug tracking and project management tools (Asana or ClickUp).
- Ability to write clear, reproducible bug reports with steps, expected vs. actual behavior, environment details, and supporting screenshots or screen recordings.
- Ability to build and maintain structured QA checklists and test cases for repeatable use across multiple client projects.
- Comfortable managing multiple concurrent projects with varying tech stacks, timelines, and client expectations.
- Understanding of staging-to-production deployment validation and environment-specific testing protocols.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional coordination with developers, designers, project managers, and clients.
- Proactive mindset — identifies potential issues during review rather than waiting for explicit test assignments.
- Experience documenting QA processes, creating runbooks, or contributing to internal knowledge bases.
Bonus Points If You Have
- Exposure to Shopify's Liquid templating language or WordPress PHP enough to trace bugs to source code.
- Working knowledge of SEO validation — checking meta tags, structured data, canonical URLs, and sitemap integrity post-deployment.
- Understanding of security testing fundamentals — form validation, input sanitization, SSL verification, and authentication flow testing.
- Background in e-commerce QA — checkout flows, payment gateway testing, inventory sync validation, and order lifecycle verification.
This Role Is NOT For You If
- You lack a structured approach to testing, relying on ad hoc exploration without documentation, checklists, or systematic coverage.
- You are unwilling or unable to document defects properly, preferring verbal-only reporting.
- You have no exposure to CMS platforms like WordPress, Shopify, or Webflow, making the learning curve for platform-specific testing too steep.
- You view quality assurance solely as a final gate before launch, rather than a continuous discipline.
- You are resistant to developing even basic technical literacy to understand code-related issues.
- You prefer working on one project at a time and cannot handle multi-client, parallel workstreams.
- You take a purely reactive approach, waiting for instructions on what to test instead of proactively exploring edge cases or anticipating risks.
- You have only done manual testing and have no interest in learning automation.
Why Work With Us
Growmodo is a fast-moving global digital design and development studio that helps brands grow smarter. We offer:
- Remote work, async flexibility, and a globally distributed team.
- High-performance culture with zero micromanagement.
- Direct impact on retention and revenue.
- Ownership and performance-based growth opportunities.
How to Apply
Ready to join our team? Click on the "Apply" button to get started.
Next Steps: If selected, you'll hear from us within two weeks. The hiring process includes a screening interview, a trial task, a call with the hiring manager, and a final discussion with our CEO, followed by onboarding.
If you’re detail-obsessed, proactive, and take pride in delivering polished, error-free work, this role is a strong fit. We’re looking for someone who protects quality, communicates issues clearly, and ensures every project goes live with confidence and excellence.
TL;DR
Timezone: Central European Time (GMT+1)
Type: Full-time Contract
Reports To: Development Operations Manager