Job VC

Title:
QA Engineer (Manual) — Consumer AI Product
Type:
Full-time, remote
Team:
Product & Engineering (~9 people)
Rate:
$1,500–1,800/mo (mid-level)

About us
We build Dream Companion, a consumer AI companion platform with ~1M users and tens of thousands of daily actives. Small, profitable, founder-owned team that ships fast. Modern stack (Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis), AI image/video generation, subscriptions and payments at scale.

Note before you apply:
the product includes adult (NSFW) content. You'll be testing it daily. Only apply if you're fully comfortable with that.
What you'll do
Own functional testing for new features — you test it, you sign off, we ship
Write and maintain test cases and checklists for your feature areas
Do exploratory and negative testing: find the bugs nobody scripted for
Test our highest-risk flows: signup, subscriptions, payments, paywall/upgrade gates, abuse/anti-fraud checks
Write clear, reproducible bug reports the dev team can act on without a follow-up call
Work directly with developers and the founder — short feedback loops, no bureaucracy

What we're looking for
2+ years hands-on manual QA on web products
Strong at exploratory and edge-case testing, not just running someone else's script
Comfortable with browser dev tools, reading network requests, basic SQL, checking logs
Experience testing payment or subscription flows is a big plus
Clear written English — your bug reports are how the whole team communicates
Independent: you can own a feature area without hand-holding
Exposure to API testing (Postman or openAPI)

Nice to have
Experience with AI-generated content or content-moderation testing
Some scripting / automation curiosity (not required for this role)