Middle Manual QA Engineer (offline)

Project
Our client develops a cloud solution to help retailers gain a competitive advantage, attract and retain more loyal customers and drive the greatest financial success. It gives retailers and CPGs the data and insights they need to better compete and grow in the convenience retail industry. It makes monitoring business trends, building loyalty, measuring promotions, having the right product assortment, and maximizing profits easy. By building more collaboration between retailers and CPGs using transaction, promotion, and customer data, customers can come to expect more valuable promotions that impact their wallets more effectively.

Technologies
Java, SQL, Python, Google Cloud Platform, REST API, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, TestNG, REST Assured, IntelliJ IDE, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Zephyr Scale, and Bitbucket

Project teams location
USA, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine

Responsibilities
● Drive the full cycle of product testing (functional, regression testing, integration, smoke, end-to-end, etc.)
● Review and analyze project requirements and specifications
● Work with the product owner to ensure requirements are captured correctly; work with the development team to analyze and resolve defects
● Develop manual test scenarios and test suites, maintain test documentation
● Implement and execute tests at all planned levels
● Functional API testing
● Support the full cycle of defect tracking & management
● Report over the manual testing results and possible risks
● Support new system releases by performing regression and smoke testing
● Contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process & product testing strategy
● Collaborate with development teams and QA automation team to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation

Qualifications and Skills
● 2+ years of work experience in testing and/or software development
● Strong in planning and adjusting the existing process
● Proficient knowledge and understanding of test artifacts and their lifecycle (bug reports, test cases, etc.)
● Understanding of project management and testing methodology
● Proven experience validating and verifying the quality of complex distributed systems in multiple environments using different backends and frontends
● Experience in testing Web applications
● Experience in API testing with appropriate tooling
● Good knowledge of SQL
● Strong in Functional, Integration, Regression testing
● Experience working in a Scrum environment
● Basic Selenium with Java (or other programming languages) experience would be a plus

Personal Qualities
● Good verbal and written communication skills
● Excellent problem solving, collaboration, and teamwork skills
● Intermediate+ English

We offer
● Experience working with multicultural distributed teams
● Opportunities for self-realization while working on challenging projects using new technologies and tools
● Friendly and enjoyable working environment with a fully equipped workplace
● Social, corporate and knowledge-sharing events
● Possibilities for career development and professional growth
● Medical & family care programs
● Various sports activities and gym membership coverage
● Fully paid 5 sick days yearly

About Forte Group

About us:
Forte Group is a full-service custom software delivery partner with a global team of experts who bring the best technology talent and value-driven practices to achieve clients’ mission in accelerating their business.

We are a network of innovators, product leaders, engineers, and professionals spanning three continents with global offices.

Back when Forte was founded in 2000, we were a small group of engineers and technologists focused on QA. Today, Forte has more than 900+ employees working out of eleven offices in the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Ukraine, Poland, etc.

Over the years, we’ve cooperated with more than 350 clients globally, and we’ve developed great software that’s been used by more than nine million people ‒ that’s equivalent to the population of London or even Switzerland!

Our clients:
DocuSign, Relativity, Sphera, Tinder, Insureon, GPShopper, Follett, SwiftIQ, Lawyer Exchange, & more

What we do: Driven to succeed

“We have been developing IT solutions for 20 years. Not as a singled out pianist, violinist, and drummer, but as an orchestra.
Steve Kreynin, Founder and CEO at Forte Group

The roadmap of our solutions consists of software engineering, product management, quality assurance & testing, staff augmentation and ecommerce strategy.

We help mid-market and large enterprises extend the capabilities of their existing software products and systems, build products from scratch, and augment software engineering teams to accelerate and enhance delivery.

Our team consists of like-minded professionals ready for a tech challenge. You name it, we’ve probably done it. Our portfolio features projects for clients in the banking, financial services, healthcare, IoT, life sciences, logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, media and entertainment, and retail industries. To add value and achieve solution scalability, we use Agile methodologies to deliver better software to market faster.

Our technology focus:
.NET, Java, JavaScript (React.js, Node.js), Oracle, Hybris, Salesforce, PHP, QA/QC, SDET, Mobile development, and Talent management.

What’s in it for you:
- Experience working with multicultural distributed teams
- Individual approach for project selection (our resource managers are rushing to help)
- Performance reviews twice a year
- Individual and group sessions with a psychologist
- Flexibility. Work from home or the office in an autonomous working environment.
- Opportunities for career development and professional growth through our learning and development department
- Friendly and enjoyable working environment with a fully equipped workplace
- Medical and family care programs, gifts to children. Fully paid five sick days yearly

Unlock your career’s potential and join us on our quest to deliver value through software.

Our mission. Bring together the best technology talent and practices to deliver on our clients’ mission.
Our Values

We care about our people.
We are committed to the growth of our employees, teams, and clients.
We create a network of individual support, team trust, and transparency for everyone in and outside the company. This environment allows creativity to flow and fosters the long-term growth of our people and nurturing of our customers.
We value curiosity and resourcefulness.
The quest for self-improvement is a life-long pursuit — but a worthy one.
We endeavor to be extraordinary, curious, resourceful, and continually progress. By upgrading our team, we boost everything around us.
We value and deliver quality at scale.
We’re adaptive to new perspectives, technologies, ideas, and challenges — both as technology experts and as people. We aim to bring positive and qualitative change through transformative software.

Company website:
https://fortegrp.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/forte-group/