Swap is the infrastructure behind modern agentic commerce. The only AI-native platform connecting backend operations with a forward-thinking storefront experience.
Built for brands that want to sell anything - anywhere, Swap centralises global operations, powers intelligent workflows, and unlocks margin-protecting decisions with real-time data and capability. Our products span cross-border, tax, returns, demand planning, and our next-generation agentic storefront, giving merchants full transparency and the ability to act with confidence.
At Swap, we’re building a culture that values clarity, creativity, and shared ownership as we redefine how global commerce works.
About the roleWe are looking for a mid–senior Manual QA Engineer to join our Returns team. You will work closely with the Product Manager and engineers to ensure stable releases in a fast-moving, AI-enabled ecommerce environment. You will own test planning and execution, build and maintain structured regression coverage, and help the team adopt clear quality practices. This role is manual-first, with a clear path to grow into automation or software engineering.
- Drive end-to-end testing for Returns flows across UI and APIs: functional, regression, exploratory, and release validation.
- Own test design and documentation: create and maintain test scenarios, checklists, and regression suites with clear traceability to requirements.
- Partner with the Product Manager on requirements clarity: decompose user needs into testable acceptance criteria and critical user journeys.
- Organize quality work for the team: define lightweight QA process per feature, release checklist, triage routines, and quality gates for what is “ready to ship”.
- Execute technical validation: perform API checks (e.g., Postman/curl), validate payloads, logs, and data consistency; understand system behaviour well enough to isolate failures.
- Report defects with high signal: strong reproduction steps, impact, evidence, and prioritisation; verify fixes and prevent regressions.
- 3–5 years of experience in manual QA for web products (ecommerce experience is a plus).
- Strong test design skills: scenarios, edge cases, regression suites, and structured documentation.
- Extreme attention to detail and strong product sense: understands user goals and can spot UX and workflow issues early.
- Able to lead quality activities without formal authority: organizes work, drives alignment, and keeps releases under control.
- Technical foundation: confident with API testing tools (Postman), basic SQL is a plus, and able to reason about client/server behavior and data flows.
- Comfortable in an agile environment with Jira (or similar), and strong written communication for clear bug reports and test summaries.
- Motivated to transition over time toward automation or software engineering; willing to learn scripting, CI basics, and how to turn stable manual regression into automated coverage
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Stock options in a high-growth startup.
- Competitive PTO with public holidays additional.
- Private Health.
- Pension.
- Wellness benefits.
- Breakfast Mondays.
We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of equality isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing.
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Swap Commerce London, England Office
86 Paul Street, Hoxton, Islington, London, United Kingdom, N1 7DF
