QA Engineer (Manual) (offline)

Professional skills and Requirements
Required professional skills for being successful with goals and expected results.

— Experience working with digital agency model
— Experience working with 3-5 ongoing projects at the same time
— Experience working remotely, at least during one year
— At least 2 years QA Manual experience in web
— Experience in non-functional tests such as Performance, Security, and Accessibility
— Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes
— Strong written English skills (mostly technical English)
— Excellent communication skills in English and Russian (both written and spoken)
— Excellent manual testing skills
— Good project documentation skills
— Experience in writing project documentation
— Excellent time management and organizational skills
— Good experience with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)
— Ability to forge and balance strong working relationships with colleagues, clients, and customers

Goals
Company goals for the candidate that should be solved:
— Create and maintain test infrastructure (test management software, test plans, test cases, test scenarios, etc.)
— Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
— Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
— Perform thorough smoke/regression testing when bugs resolved
— Overall responsibility for successful quality control of the project
— Interaction with Project Managers, Development Team and others as needed to fix blockers and move a project towards a successful finish
— Write project documentation and user guides
— Participate in continuous processes improvements
— Help with writing QA documentation on the company level
— Help team meet deadlines and milestones

Expected Results
Measured results based on company goals. They define how the candidate’s success will be measured.
— All active projects are being tested before and after any deployment
— All active projects have a test plan and test cases
— Projects documentation fully covered by you in Jira Confluence.
— The team follows a project workflow and decreases the time for testing using automated tests
— You’re a person who responsible for project quality
— You’re a person who can answer any scope related questions
— You’re a person who can help identify steps to reproduce any bug/issue
— Focus on quality, not on testing

We Propose
— Remote work in a team of professionals (or a chair in a co-working space)
— Fair compensation
— Benefits: vacation (21 day), sick leave (5 days) , a day off during official national holidays and your Birthday
— Flexible schedule (7 hrs per day / 1 hr for learning new things)
— Regular Friday Open Microphones about different tech things from other team members
— Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc)
— Gamification program: certificates on Rozetka, Amazon, Ozon, LitRes, Yandex Music, Skyeng, MIF Books
— Support in participating in tech conferences
— Warm and friendly working environment
— Work in a professional team distributed across 4 countries and 4 timezones
— Team buildings and other sorts of team activities

Day-to-day Responsibilities
Responsibilities that candidate will have on a daily basis.
— Interaction with Project Manager and Development Team
— Manual testing for all assigned projects
— Do regression testing
— Write and maintain projects documentation
— Help team members with their requests to tests or check anything
— Create and maintain test plans and test cases
— Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to create a roadmap for project testing including manual and automated tests before the project kick-off
— Prepare questions for clients
— Communication with the team via Slack, Basecamp, Email, GoToMeeting
— Transition all the feedback into Jira tasks and requirements
— Help Project manager setting up the priority for features, tasks, bugs, and defects that may appear on a daily basis
— Be ready for the live Demo with client
— Help write and maintain QA Documentation about processes and workflows
— Be curious and eager to learn.


About project
Five Jars is looking for an experienced manual QA Engineer to join our growing team of professionals.

This role requires a solid professional background in testing projects within a software delivery environment. It presupposes the performance of highly diverse tasks and involves aspects of planning, monitoring, and controlling the project from the beginning up to the project completion.

You are going to work with a team of talented, creative experts who love their projects and do their best to contribute to its development. If you are an ambitious person who knows how web development works, we have an excellent opportunity for you to reach your full potential and to live out your dream!

Five Jars is a full-service web agency with extensive experience in delivering quality products. We use strategy, design, technology, and digital solutions to create value and reach customer’s goals.

Five Jars was founded by a group of technology enthusiasts, digital experts, and dreamers to change the digital era. Since then, we gathered together only top technical talent to produce quality products and be as successful as our customers.

Our technical and design teams have expertise and knowledge to rapidly and cost-effectively respond to the critical digital presence needs of the business.

Five Jars team is extremely experienced in Drupal Development, Open Y, Web Analytics, A/B Testing, 3rd party integrations, and overall non-profit business processes. We are strongly committed to the success of customer projects.