Quality Assurance Team Lead (offline)

Responsibilities:
— Define and monitor testing procedures and practices: test management, defect management and tracking management.
— Track and provide QA statuses to stakeholders.
— Review and present different types of QA deliverables including reports.
— Provide insights about production quality and prepare improvement plans to improve quality for low-quality areas.
— Be an influencer to a matrix-managed team’s members and managers, providing the highest quality standards and approaches.
— Participate in the interviews of new team members, guide the onboarding process.
— Participate in the performance review process.
— Conduct 1-1 meetings with subordinate team members.
— Ensure QA personnel are prioritizing and tracking defects and issues correctly and recommend corrective action where required.
— Implement testing policies, procedures and standards across company's products.
— Adapt the testing strategy to the project’s expansion.
— Planning and estimating the testing activities.
— Tasks prioritization.
— Coordinate with various teams for specific tests.
— Supervise and coordinate over the whole test process cycle.
— Prepare Test Summary Reports and Release Notes.
— Manage a team of 5-10 QA engineers and evaluate their performance, develop and coach team.
— Collaborating with the UpWork freelancers that are providing the services required for the testing purpose.

Qualifications:
— Previous managerial experience as a team leader.
— Excellent negotiation, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills.
— Knowledge of test case management tools (Testrail, TM4J, etc).
— In depth understanding of formal test and development processes.
— Strong verbal and written communication skills.
— Strong project and time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
— Enthusiastic, positive, team oriented, and organized.
—Ability to work under tight schedules and high-stress environment.
— Understanding of agile-based SDLCs (Scrum/Kanban).
— Experience with API Contract verification using tools such as Swagger or REST Docs.
— Experience with RESTful API web service execution and validation using tools such as Postman or SOAP.
— Experience in working with databases (NoSQL is an advantage).
— Strong leadership skills.
— A sense of humour doesn’t hurt either =)
— Analytical and problem-solving skills.
— Ability to establish QA processes from scratch with further monitoring and control, including creation and maintenance of supportive artifacts, procedures, and metrics.

We offer:
— Professional development opportunities.
— Free English classes.
— Paid sick leave and vacation.
— Modern office located in the center of the city.
— Free morning schedule.
— Fruit, milk, biscuits and sweets during the day.
— Recreation room with Xbox and TV.
— Shower room and bicycle parking.
— Own gym.

About Playwing

Playwing was founded in 2017 and is privately owned by the founders of Ubisoft, the Guillemot brothers.

Playwing Teams are composed of creative talents focused on delivering fresh and innovative gaming experiences accessible instantly by players.

What we do?
Playwing is a publisher focused creation and distribution of multiplayer, cross-platform, crossplay, and mobile games.

We have different High-quality products with complex logic and different content. We are distributing and we offer different types of markets and targets.

The company has operational offices in Rennes (France), Madrid (Spain), Bucharest (Romania), Kharkiv (Ukraine), and a sales office in San Diego (USA). We also count two partner studios, Mando Productions, in Paris (France) and Shinypix, in Bordeaux (France).

Company website:
http://www.playwing.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/playwing/