QA Engineer

Street addresses weren’t designed for 2025. They aren’t accurate enough to specify building entrances, and they don’t exist for parks, rural areas and many parts of the world. This makes it hard to find places and causes problems and inefficiencies on a global scale.

That’s why we created what3words. We divided the world into 3m squares and gave each square a unique combination of three words. It’s the easiest way to find and share precise locations.

Over the last year, what3words has been used in 193 countries, and our monthly active users continue to grow at an impressive pace. Our tech is used by emergency services, delivery companies, eCommerce businesses, ride-hailing apps and NGOs, and is integrated into the navigation systems of millions of cars around the world.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for a QA Engineer to join our engineering team in Ho Chi Minh City to work closely with our engineering and product teams and who will be responsible for testing what3words products and tools in our product ecosystem focusing particularly on Mobile and web apps, associated wearable tech and integrations with our automotive partners. We need someone who can adapt quickly to new projects and work across our products to explore and find issues others wouldn’t.  

At what3words, we're proud of our tech stack. We have built a massively scalable, microservices-based architecture, based around Kubernetes on AWS. The wider engineering team works with technologies such as ReactJS, Docker, Redis, AWS Lambdas, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Athena, BigQuery, Java, Scala, C++, and Swift.

This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative, ambitious and Agile team, at one of the most exciting times in this company's life.

Examples of tasks you will y work on include:

• Writing test cases for new products and features.
• Updating our automated tests to add coverage.
• Reviewing and refining requirements with product owners and engineers.
• Perform go live testing on release of new features.
• Find and isolate bugs and determine their impact on the product or release.
• Help troubleshoot issues.
• Signing off on new releases.

Requirements:

• Experience of testing iOS and Android apps
• Experience with bug tracking tools like Jira
• Knowledge of exploratory testing and how to find new ways to break things
• Exceptional attention to detail 
• Ability to write and run tests in cypress
• Experience using Git

Bonus points for:

• Knowledge of Google Maps or Leaflet, GIS systems, AWS, Kubernetes, Hubspot or similar CRM systems
• Experience of Agile working environments.
• Experience working with wearables in iOS and Android
• Experience working with automotive technologies
• Experience of accessibility testing with screen readers 
• API Testing: knowledge of APIs and API automation

The role is based in our centrally located HCMC office. While you can work from the office five days a week if preferred, our Engineering team can choose to work up to two days a week from home. We also offer a six-week remote-work allowance; for up to six weeks a year, you can work from anywhere in the world (as long as you’ve got great WiFi and are happy to work with your main office timezone).

Equality, diversity and inclusion at what3words

Our mission is to help everyone talk about everywhere, and we believe diverse perspectives make for a better company and better products too. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups and are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our hiring processes and company culture.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits to all permanent employees of what3words:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working
• 6 week remote working (work from anywhere) policy
• 25 days holiday: plus the option to buy more!
• Share options
• Private health insurance
• Wellbeing Days
• Generous parental leave policies
• Family friendly policies
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Lunch & learn sessions
• Team social budget