QA Specialist, Proton
Plus Equity
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Be an early applicant
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Plus Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- 3–5 years of hands-on QA experience, ideally on consumer-facing software products with a large and diverse user base
- Strong command of manual testing techniques — you know how to write a test plan, execute it rigorously, and report findings clearly
- Experience with both functional and non-functional testing, including performance, security, and privacy considerations
- Familiarity with test automation concepts and at least basic scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar) — you don't need to be a developer, but you should speak their language
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how QA fits into a modern, fast-moving development workflow
- Comfortable using bug tracking and test management tools such as Jira, Testmo, or similar
- Experience with version control using Git and a natural fit in an open-source collaborative environment
- A genuine sensitivity to privacy and security issues — understanding of privacy-by-design principles is a real plus
- Sharp eye for detail combined with a structured, methodical approach — nothing slips past you
- Great communicator who can work effectively across disciplines in a remote-friendly, internationally distributed team
- A real passion for quality, open-source software, and building technology that genuinely protects people
What the job involves
- Own end-to-end quality assurance across one or more Proton products, from feature inception to release
- Design and execute thorough test plans covering functional, regression, exploratory, and edge-case scenarios
- Be the voice of the user — identify usability issues, inconsistencies, and privacy risks before they ever reach production
- Work closely with developers, product managers, and designers to catch issues early and shift quality left
- Document bugs with clarity and precision, and follow them through to resolution with the engineering team
- Contribute to and maintain automated test suites, helping to reduce manual effort over time
- Perform risk-based testing with a sharp focus on privacy, data integrity, and security behaviour
- Help define and improve QA processes, standards, and best practices across the team
- Participate in release readiness reviews and provide clear go/no-go recommendations
- Stay curious — keep up with new testing techniques, tools, and industry trends to continuously raise the bar
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(Founder & CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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