Lead Manual QA Engineer for Ciklum Digital 🧨 (offline)

About Quality Engineering Team:

Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 500+ professionals working in 7 main directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance and Cyber Security.

Our main principles are:

People are over processes and hierarchy
Flat and open collaboration/communication increases creativity and brings more value to business
Investing in people and innovations ensures your future
Reuse and share your experience – Develop best practices, publicize and follow them
Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an optimal environment for your professional involvement and growth.

Quality Engineering Team is unique provider of:

Manual QA Services
Automation QA Services
Performance QA Services
CyberSecurity Services
QA Consulting and Audit
DevOps Services
Support Managed Services


🧨 Responsibilities

Test management and QA processes:
Test Strategy/Test Plan definition and preparation according to project and product specifics, define quality gates
Setup QA processes, approaches, frameworks, tools, and team composition from scratch
Ongoing monitoring and improving or setting-up QA processes for different projects/products
Requirements analysis and processing
Estimation of the testing activities on a projectprogram level
Test reporting on Quality level to key stakeholders
Test risks management
Define and track required quality metrics
Testing Methodology Implementation, Agile QA Process Management

Project specific responsibilities:
Basing on the data flows inventory in collaboration with QA engineers from the respective delivery teams:
Plan cross team integration testing (design test suites, arrange effort estimation, validate talents availability, plan timeline and enablers availability)
Perform change management
Coordinate execution
Monitor progress and risks
Implement mitigation actions.

People and team management:
Participate in hiring interviewing process
Onboarding of a new team members

🧨 Requirements
5+ years professional experience in QA area
At least 2 years real working experience with Web-based projects
Proven experience to setup core QA processes from scratch (including planing and estimation)
Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques and types
Deep understanding of core Test Automation principles, role of Test Automation in Quality process – what to automate, when to automate.
Knowledge of testing specifics for different application types – web, backend, mobile, embedded, high load, SaaS etc.
Experience with different business domains (Fintech, Retail, Automotive, eCommerce etc.)
Deep understanding of development processes, approaches, infrastructure and tools
Agile/Scrum experience
Upper-intermediate or fluent English level
Risk management
Hands-on working experience with Backend projects
Good knowledge in complex SQL queries, working experience with NoSQL Database
Good experience in working with REST andor SOAP APIs
Understanding of HTML/CSS
Advanced Jira skills to setup dashboards, collect metrics, setup workflows

Personal skills

Good analytical skills
Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
Strong communication and problem solving skills
Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you

Close cooperation with client
Constant flow of new projects
Dynamic and challenging tasks
Ability to influence project technologies
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
European management style
Continuous self-improvement

About Ciklum International

Ciklum (www.ciklum.com) is a leading global product engineering and digital services company, serving Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations.

Headquartered in the UK, Ciklum has 4,000+ software developers, designers, product managers and data scientists around the world building tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies. Ciklum specialises in enabling digital transformation for some of the largest household names in the digital economy.

The Company empowers its clients and people to exceed their potential and pursue the extraordinary.

Join one of the top 10 employers in Ukraine, according to Forbes.
Boost your skills and make a difference with cutting-edge projects, skilled colleagues and the latest tech stacks.

Company website:
https://www.ciklum.com/

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