Senior QA Engineer (freelance)

Responsibilities

• ▹Compatibility testing: making sure devices, sensors, gateways, protocols and platforms work well together
• ▹Functional testing: data collection, storage, processing, real-time monitoring, control, integrations
• ▹Performance testing: behavior under different workloads, networks and physical conditions, finding bottlenecks and latency
• ▹Security testing: vulnerabilities in devices, communication protocols, transmission, storage, access and auth
• ▹Mentor less experienced testers, raise the bar on QA practices
• ▹Take part in requirement discussions and daily calls, flag inconsistencies and open issues early
• ▹Share knowledge inside the QA chapter and across the company
• ▹Use AI tools as part of the daily workflow

Requirements

• ▹Senior-level experience testing apps that talk to physical devices (e.g. over BLE)
• ▹Comfortable digging into firmware logs, not just testing the surface of the mobile app
• ▹Curious, questioning mindset — challenges specs, asks 'why' before 'how'
• ▹Uses AI tools daily and deliberately, not as a gimmick

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Truly flexible hours, you organize your day
• ▹Fully remote, with an optional pet-friendly Warsaw office and Gdansk coworking space
• ▹Access to internal knowledge-sharing: tech talks, experiments, side projects
• ▹After a successful first 3 months, a real path to a permanent contract with fixed monthly salary, 26 days paid leave, 10 sick days, Saltus medical care and a training budget

About the company

intent has been designing and co-creating connected devices since 2008 — wearables, smart audio, health-tech hardware — for clients like Oura and BOSE, backed by investors including a16z and Founders Fund. The team is 60+ people, fully remote and AI-native.