QA Working Student - Manual & Automation - Tracking Team (d/f/m)

Department: Engineering

Location: Better Place, Oranienstraße 183, Berlin

Employment Type: PartTime

What is working at Bettermile like?

• 🌟 We have a very supportive and appreciative working environment with a lot of autonomy, a flat hierarchy, and professional growth possibilities

• 🌍 We mean diversity and we put it in numbers: 40 languages, 40 nationalities, 40% female (vs. ø26% in tech industry), and yes, we do have Schlager-Fans among us

• 🚀 You can quickly take on responsibility without feeling left alone. Your team is always at your side

• 🎨 We mean it when we say “cutting edge” and have a high level of creative freedom in our everyday work

• 🏢 We work in a hybrid mode with weekly team days for better collaboration and nurturing interpersonal connections. When onsite - we work in a modern kid & pet-friendly Better Space in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg

• ✈️ Remote work from anywhere for up to 12 weeks in total in a year

• 🛌 Enjoy 27 vacation days (with a 5-day week model)

• 🍎 Regular team breakfasts, fitness & wellness classes, company runs, and other events. Fruits, snacks, drinks, and coffee with a variety of milk are a given - but yes, we have them

• 💡 Outstanding flexibility we are proud of – and of course, the best colleagues in the world!

About Tracking team - Better Tracking Tribe

The Tracking team is at the heart of our mission to redefine the last-mile experience. We create exciting and engaging UX that gives consignees clear and timely delivery information, empowers them to influence their delivery experience, and bridges the communication gap between Driver and Consignee to achieve successful and more efficient deliveries.

As our Working Student, you'll pair up with your mentor and developers to build a safety net for our software, elevating what we already have. It's a high-trust, flexible setup where ownership is shared, and you own real things, not busywork. And the software you help keep reliable? It runs our tracking products, used for millions of parcels every single day.

You will be taking care of

• Manually test new features end-to-end and give the final sign-off before anything gets shipped

• Maintain, build, run, and scale our frontend test coverage with Playwright and TypeScript

• Help kick off our backend API testing automation with Postman

• Enjoy the detective work! Hunt down bugs, trace root causes, write clean reproduction steps

• Pick up new tools fast, share what you learn, and jump in to help teammates without waiting to be asked

You check these boxes

‼️Important: Cooperation start date is October 1st. You must have at least 1 year remaining in your studies at that time!

• You get QA! You understand that testing isn't just about finding bugs, but about improving the overall user experience

• Experience writing code in at least one programming language

  • Extra points for hands-on experience or coursework in test automation (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)

• You can take something and run with it, sit with a little ambiguity, and go find answers instead of waiting to be handed them

• Sharp eye for detail! You like breaking things to figure out how they tick

• You can write concise bug reports and adapt your communication whether speaking to engineers, designers, or product owners

• You'd rather try something and learn than wait around for the perfect plan

• QA genuinely interests you, you're intentional about being in QA!

It is awesome if you also have

• You’ve worked in a QA or Testing role before!

• Some hands-on time with TypeScript or JavaScript

• Any exposure to Playwright, Postman or Insomnia

• Any other language under your belt, like Kotlin or Java

Our current stack: Playwright, Postman, JavaScript and TypeScript, Kotlin, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions, Jira, Confluence, SquashTM, AWS.

Take your chance

Be a part of shaping a fast-growing industry and make an impact from day one. You’ll have the chance to take on responsibility early, with guidance and support from experienced mentors. We foster a learning culture, collaboration on equal footing, and quick decision-making that moves things forward.

Currently, we’re proceeding only with candidates authorized to work in Germany or who already hold a Job Seeker Visa.

About us

At Bettermile, we believe delivery shouldn’t be business as usual. We’re transforming last-mile logistics to drive efficiency and create a better delivery experience for everyone.

Our geo-based, AI-powered SaaS product handles complex address processing, dynamic routing, and navigation. It is built to manage many stops and multiple constraints.

We’re setting a new standard for the last mile and pushing the industry forward, powered by a skilled, international team of tech enthusiasts, logistics experts, and a product suite designed to keep evolving.