Expert Manual QA Engineer for Ciklum Digital Offline

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 project\program 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 (Hard skills 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 and\or SOAP APIs

● Understanding of HTML/CSS

● Advanced Jira skills to setup dashboards, collect metrics, setup workflows

Personal skills (soft 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.