Test Engineer (Manual QA)

Location: Bangalore
Company: smallest.ai

About smallest.ai

smallest.ai is building next-generation AI infrastructure and voice technology designed to power intelligent products and applications at scale. Our team works across speech, LLMs, and real-time AI systems to build tools developers and businesses rely on.

We are looking for a Test Engineer (Manual QA) who brings a strong quality mindset and enjoys validating complex products across UI, APIs, and real user workflows.

This role is ideal for someone who thinks deeply about product behavior, edge cases, and user journeys, and enjoys working closely with engineering and product teams to ship reliable systems.

What You’ll Do

• Design and execute test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for product features and releases

• Perform UI and API testing across web products and backend services

• Validate end-to-end workflows, ensuring product stability and usability

• Identify edge cases, failure scenarios, and UX gaps during testing

• Work closely with engineering, product, and design teams to ensure high product quality

• Report and track bugs, regressions, and product issues effectively

• Participate in release testing and regression cycles

• Contribute to improving QA processes and testing practices
  

What We’re Looking For

• Strong understanding of software testing fundamentals, STLC, and SDLC

• Experience with manual testing across UI and API testing tools (Postman, etc.)

• Ability to design clear test scenarios and test cases

• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail

• Ability to think through real user behavior and product flows

• Good communication and collaboration skills

• Exposure to automation testing concepts or tools

• Experience working in startup or fast-moving product environments
  

Why Join smallest.ai

• Work on cutting-edge AI products and infrastructure

• Be part of a high-ownership engineering culture

• Opportunity to shape testing practices as the company scales

• Collaborate with a team building technology at the frontier of AI
  

If you're passionate about product quality and enjoy breaking things before users do, we'd love to hear from you.