Senior Manual QA Engineer (offline)

As a QA manual test engineer, you will be a part of an agile team where your role will be in developing test plans and performing manual tests. Our test practices introduce several quality gates, such as Sanity, Smoke, Regression, Load tests, Performance, API-level, and Functional test suites in multiple product areas. If you enjoy working in a team with curious, persistent, logical, and clever people who enjoy developing elegant solutions for complex problems, this could be perfect for you. Scroll down to learn more about the responsibilities and requirements for this position.

Technologies/Tools
● System: Linux/Kubernetes, Dockers, IP Telephony, Cisco Call Manager, Windows, Android, and iOS
● Push to Talk, Land Mobile Radio Gateways, Cisco ISR 4K Routers, Multicast networking
● Tools: Jira, Jira XRay, Confluence, Slack
● Methodology: Agile/Scrum, 2 weeks Sprint

Qualifications and Skills
QA Tester, Systems background
● 3+ years Testing commercial applications
● 3+ years browser/desktop applications
● 3+ years of mobile testing
● Must know the following tools: Jira, Slack, Confluence TestFlight, App Store, App Center, Linux user-level familiarity
● Must be very familiar with Linux, IP networking, system integration
● Proven ability to test complex systems and deep knowledge in QA methodologies
● Experience in producing key test assets (requirements gathering, test plans, test reports)
● Experience with software testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, Smoke, User Acceptance Testing)
● Familiar with CI/CD and source control systems such as Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket would be a plus
● Experience with Performance/Load testing and measurements of application performance would be a plus

Nice to Have Knowledge of:
● Containers (Kubernetes, KubeSpray, Docker, K3s)
● Git, Bitbucket, Bitbucket Pipelines
● Dashboard, Modeling (Grafana, Kibana, Loki, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Prometheus)
● Security (Nginx, SSL, PKI infrastructure; X.509 certificates, CertManager)
● Load testing using Javascript
● Kubernetes Clusters:
- Deployment using Helm Chart
- Performance tuning (metrics, logs, dashboards, etc.)
- Data movement between clusters
- Storage (Rancher, VMWare, OpenEBS, Longhorn)
● Cloud Provider terminology and deployment models (on-prem, public cloud, and hybrid)
● Linux; shell scripting and network admin
● Hands-on testing of “Push to Talk” applications and Voice over IP, IP Networking

Responsibility
● Product and Solution QA Requirements Analysis
● Design, architect, and develop test scenarios and test suites
● Provide clear reporting over the execution of the manual tests
● Contribute to regression testing, perform bugs verification
● Collaborate with team members to produce thoughtful test designs
● Application performance and compatibility testing when needed

Personal qualities
● Proven ability to work independently with minimum supervision and ability to meet aggressive deadlines
● Strong verbal and written communication skills
● Curiosity to learn complex systems to be able to locate issues more precisely.
● Ability to deal with ambiguity and focus on problem-solving

We offer
● Plenty of cool tasks with a diligent, friendly, and supportive international team.
● External training compensation and in-office English classes.
● Possibilities for career development and professional growth.
● A measurable personal development plan (PDP).
● Flexible WFH and WFO options with a fully equipped workplace.
● Extended health insurance plans.
● Various sports activities and gym membership coverage
● Five fully-paid sick days a year.
● Individual and group sessions with a psychologist.
● Corporate and team-building events
● Social, corporate, and knowledge-sharing events

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/