--- title: 'QA Engineer at AppNation' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/qa-engineer-appnation-istanbul-gxk3jf5q0d1g' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # QA Engineer at AppNation - **Company:** AppNation - **Location:** İstanbul, Turkey - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/appnation/20d97c99-da4d-4782-b29b-9128b9a92456 ## Job description ## About AppNation We build AI-powered mobile apps that reach millions of users worldwide. Since 2021, AppNation has been creating products across AI, productivity, and mobile experiences. Our apps, including Genie, Translate AI, and Arch, have reached 100M+ users globally and ranked among the top apps in 30+ countries. We are a team of builders, designers, and engineers who move fast, take ownership, and create products used by millions. ## About the Role We're looking for a QA Engineer to join Genie Studio and ensure the quality and reliability of Genie, our AI-powered assistant used by millions worldwide. You’ll own testing end-to-end across iOS, Android, and Web, covering AI-powered experiences, revenue-critical flows, releases, and A/B tests. Working closely with Product and Engineering, you’ll combine hands-on testing, automation, and strong user perspective to catch issues early and help us ship reliable experiences at scale. ## What You’ll Do - Own Testing Across Platforms: Plan and execute functional, exploratory and regression testing for Genie on iOS, Android and Web. - Test AI-Powered Experiences: Validate chat flows, streamed responses and model updates, and catch quality issues in non-deterministic outputs that traditional test cases miss. - Guard Every Release: Run smoke and regression cycles, validate release candidates, and give a clear go/no-go signal for every build. - Test Revenue-Critical Flows: Ensure subscriptions, paywalls, trials, renewals and web checkout work correctly across platforms and pricing configurations. - Validate A/B Tests: Verify that experiments are set up correctly, users land in the right variants, and each variant behaves and tracks as expected. - Detect, Report and Track Bugs: Write clear, reproducible bug reports in Jira, prioritize them with Product and Engineering, and follow them through to verification. - Be Part of the Sprint: Join planning and grooming, review requirements early, surface edge cases and risks, and help define acceptance criteria. - Automate & Improve: Build and maintain automated tests for web and mobile, keep test plans and regression suites up to date, and drive practical improvements to our QA process and tooling. ## What We Look For - Experience: 3+ years of hands-on QA in consumer mobile and/or web products, ideally in a fast-paced environment. - Mobile & Web Testing: Strong experience testing iOS and Android apps and web applications across devices, OS versions and browsers. - Release Ownership: Proven experience running regression cycles and validating releases, including App Store and Google Play release processes (TestFlight, internal testing tracks). - Subscription & Payment Testing: Hands-on experience with StoreKit and Google Play Billing sandbox environments and/or web payment flows. - Technical Skills: Comfortable with API testing (e.g., Postman), reading device logs, network debugging tools (e.g., Charles, Proxyman), Jira and test management tools. - Test Automation: Hands-on experience with Playwright, and with Appium or Selenium. - Ownership & Communication: Able to work as the sole QA in a team, set your own priorities, make sound quality judgments without close supervision, and communicate risks clearly to Product and Engineering. - User Perspective: You think like an end user and care about delivering reliable experiences to millions of people. ## Nice to Have - ## Experience testing AI/LLM-based products - Familiarity with A/B testing tools and analytics event validation Why AppNation? - Build and scale products reaching millions of users globally. - Work with talented people in a fast-moving AI-first environment. - Take ownership and see your impact directly in the products you build. - Grow quickly with opportunities to lead projects and shape technical decisions. - Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits, including private health insurance, meal and commute support, relocation support, and flexible working options. Our Hiring Process Application Review → Interview → Technical Assessment → Final Interviews At AppNation, we set ambitious goals and challenge ourselves to build products that reach millions of people. We value curiosity, ownership, and continuous growth. If this role excites you and you're ready to make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now—we're excited to meet you. ## About AppNation ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AppNation is a mobile app publisher that creates category‑leading AI‑powered apps, making advanced AI technology easy to use and accessible for everyone. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly available) - **Headquarters**: Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Yalçın Özdemir (CEO), İbrahim Karahan (CTO), Saffet Arslan (CDO), Mustafa Ayten (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Mobile application development, artificial intelligence, consumer software - **Target customers**: B2C – everyday consumers looking for AI‑powered photo/video editing, chatbot assistance, and home design tools - **Mission**: To bring cutting‑edge, AI‑driven technology into the hands of everyday people, unlocking endless possibilities [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/) ## Products & Services - **[Genie](https://www.appnation.co/)**: AI chatbot app that offers access to multiple large language models (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, Grok) in a single interface – over 15 million downloads. - **[Fotorama](https://www.appnation.co/)**: AI‑powered photo and video generation app, recognized as a Top 10 AI Photo App worldwide in the Rise of AI Apps Report 2025 by AppFigures. - **[Arch](https://www.appnation.co/)**: AI‑powered home design tool that reached over 5 million downloads and ranked #1 design tool in more than 30 countries. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total app portfolio exceeds 40 apps; cumulative user base includes over 15 million downloads for Genie, 5 million for Arch, and millions of AI predictions/tokens processed daily [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available - **Growth Signals**: Headcount expanded to 60+ team members (currently 69 total employees per Built In); consistent new app launches and feature updates (e.g., integrating DeepSeek into Genie in early 2025) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/appnation) ## Competitive Advantages - **Platform approach**: Standardized app‑development platform that enables rapid prototyping and publishing of multiple AI‑driven apps. - **Multi‑model integration**: Genie aggregates five leading AI models, offering users a one‑stop chatbot experience. - **Category leadership**: Multiple apps rank among the top in their respective App Store categories (photo, design, AI assistant). ## Strategic Focus - Continue creating category‑defining AI mobile apps and expanding the technology platform that powers them. - Deepen integration of emerging AI models (e.g., DeepSeek) and strengthen the existing portfolio’s market position. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a forward‑thinking, innovative team that constantly challenges itself and the limits of technology [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers). - **Work model**: Hybrid – open positions in İstanbul are listed as “Hybrid — Full‑time” on Lever; company also offers optional work‑from‑home days [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/appnation) [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers). - **Perks**: Competitive compensation, private health insurance, access to learning platforms, and a supportive work environment with “better‑than‑average” benefits [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers). ## Sources 1. [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/) – Company homepage with product details and latest updates 2. [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/about) – About page with founding story, founders, and timeline 3. [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers) – Careers page with perks and open positions 4. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/appnation) – Active job listings showing hybrid roles 5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/appnation) – Company profile with employee count, office location, and culture summary ## Other roles at AppNation - [Software Engineer (Backend)](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-backend-appnation-istanbul-q380gekfy4hm) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior Software Engineer (Backend)](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-backend-appnation-istanbul-yawyky7q1x4a) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior DevOps Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-devops-engineer-appnation-istanbul-c19ezy74d1db) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior IT Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-it-specialist-appnation-istanbul-7pr7wmz7e9ak) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Brand Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/brand-manager-appnation-istanbul-avvermpr7vcd) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior ASO & ASA Manager / Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-aso-asa-manager-platform-appnation-istanbul-bwgv7vq067bw) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/marketing-manager-appnation-istanbul-kf8zw317tjdy) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Legal & Compliance Counsel](https://feeny.ai/job/legal-compliance-counsel-appnation-istanbul-k4h1xytv0dqs) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior Android Developer / Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-android-developer-platform-appnation-istanbul-htqest900ba4) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior iOS Developer / Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ios-developer-platform-appnation-istanbul-xe8xwgkehaga) — İstanbul, Turkey