Manual QA Engineer

Dealstack is on a mission to power private equity. We are replacing outdated, manual workflows in dealmaking with structured, purpose-built SaaS tools. Following strong traction and expansion of our multi-product roadmap, we are hiring a Manual QA Engineer to help ensure our product is stable, intuitive, and production-ready at all times.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role within a small, independent product team that values quality over velocity, and collaboration over ego. The primary goal of this hire is to take ownership of the manual QA workload across the platform — smoke testing, regression testing, and general exploratory testing — so that our other QA Engineer's time is freed up to focus on automated testing.

Who you are

• 2+ years of experience in manual QA testing for web-based SaaS platforms
• Comfortable testing complex workflows and edge cases, not just UI
• Strong attention to detail with a methodical, user-first approach to testing
• Curious, pragmatic, and comfortable in a fast-moving, changeable environment
• Clear communicator with good written and verbal English
• Interested in fintech and private equity is a bonus—but not a requirement
• Willingness to learn the industry

Private equity is complex and full of nuance—and that’s exactly what makes our work rewarding. You don’t need a background in finance to succeed here, but you do need a genuine interest in learning how the industry works. Our most effective QA engineers understand the real-world workflows behind the features they test. You’ll be expected to engage with internal documentation, ask thoughtful questions, and build a working knowledge of private equity deal structures over time.

Responsibilities:

• Own manual testing for new and existing features across our React/TypeScript frontend and backend
• Review product specifications and Figma designs to write clear, structured test plans and exploratory checklists
• Identify and document reproducible bugs in a structured, developer-friendly way
• Manually test workflows and edge cases that are hard to automate—especially across API and frontend interactions
• Collaborate closely with developers to understand architecture and expected behaviour
• Run exploratory testing sessions and regression sweeps before key releases
• Work with the team to continuously improve our QA process and overall product quality

The new hire should demonstrably:

• Keep pace with other QA Engineer on release QA activities
• Increase the amount of manual testing completed before release
• Reduce the number of bugs slipping through the release process

We will track:

• Bugs found pre-release vs post-release
• Regressions caught during QA
• Time spent each week discussing and fixing release-related issues

Success in this role means:

• Developer time spent on testing and test maintenance in Docs will go down
• Other QA Engineer will be able to focus deeply on automated testing rather than juggling manual QA
• Release quality will improve, with fewer bugs escaping into production

Desirable skills Tech You’ll Work With

• (with TypeScript)
• / NestJS
• PostgreSQL
• REST, GraphQL, tRPC APIs
• WebSocket-based interactions
• Figma (for interface reviews)
• Tools like Jira, Playwright (for automated tests), and GitHub

Nice to Have

• Experience with or interest in test automation tools (e.g. Playwright, Jest)
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and deployment workflows
• Comfort testing API endpoints directly (e.g. via Postman or Insomnia)
• Understanding of data flows and backend systems (e.g. Redis, PostgreSQL)
• Previous work in early-stage, product-focused tech companies

Work arrangement

This is a remote role, UK business working hours (+-2hrs).

About us

Dealstack was founded by experienced private equity practitioners with the goal of ending the outdated deal administration practices that have plagued the industry since its inception. Manual and repetitive, these practices remain very time-consuming, costly, and error-prone. We know how frustrating they can be. Yet, while we cannot remove the need for these tasks to be completed, we can equip professionals with better tools.

The design of Dealstack is fully focused on helping our old selves work faster, smoother and feel better. By engineering away the burden of deal administration, we can give way to what matters most, creating value. We want Dealstack to become a central part of the dealmaking toolkit – just as obvious as Word, Excel or PowerPoint might feel today – only 100x better.

We recognise that changing old habits can be difficult. Our aim is not to change what works and take away that precious feeling of control. We want to enhance, not replace. Evolve, not revolutionise. We know that peace of mind is central to our users. To that end, we have built Dealstack with best-in-class security, service, and user experience as our core guiding principles.