We are a global OSINT company headquartered in the US, empowering investigators, compliance teams, and security professionals with cutting-edge AI-powered products. Our technology collects and analyzes massive volumes of data from 500+ open sources: social media, messengers, blockchains, and the dark web, to support data-driven investigations and decision-making.
Our customers include law enforcement agencies and enterprise organizations across 80+ countries. Social Links is scaling rapidly with the ambition of becoming a unicorn valued at $1B+.
We are looking for a QA Engineer to join our Core Team. You will own manual testing across our core OSINT data collection and parsing services, verifying data quality, validating search and aggregation functionality, and working closely with developers, analysts, and product owners to keep a complex, high-stakes product reliable in production.
Your Tasks Will Be
Performing manual testing of REST APIs
Testing data collection and parsing from publicly available sources (Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, websites, and other online platforms)
Verifying data quality, completeness, consistency, and correctness after parsing and processing
Verifying stability of parsing results, performing load testing of parsing services
Preparing Python scripts for load testing
Validating search functionality, filtering, data aggregation
Investigating issues using application logs, Kibana logs, API responses and Zabbix triggers
Collaborating closely with developers, analysts, product owners, technical support and other development teams throughout the development lifecycle, proactively participating in product meetings
Assisting the Technical Support team with incident handling
What We're Looking For
Experience in Manual QA
Strong understanding of software testing principles and test design techniques
Active involvement in the software development process at the planning and feature design stage
Experience testing REST APIs using Postman, Insomnia, or similar tools
Understanding of HTTP, JSON, request/response lifecycle, authentication, and status codes
Ability to analyze API responses, application logs, Kibana logs
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience working in Scrum teams
English: B1+ level
Russian: B2+ level
Nice to Have
Experience testing OSINT, data collection, web scraping, or social media monitoring platforms
Familiarity with Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, LinkedIn, Reddit, and other public information sources
Basic understanding of Python
Experience with container management platforms such as Rancher, Kubernetes
Experience with test automation of parsing systems and maintaining parsing data examples
What We Offer
Remote-first setup: work from anywhere in the world (excluding Russia and Belarus)
Real ownership from day one: your work directly affects product reliability for law enforcement and enterprise customers in 80+ countries
A collaborative team with a startup spirit and a clear path to grow
Work on a technically challenging, fast-growing product at the intersection of OSINT, AI, and cyber intelligence