Middle Manual QA Engineer

Django Stars is looking for experienced Middle Manual QA Engineer

Necessary skills
- Must have: 1.5+ year experience in testing of WEB-based applications;
- Practical knowledge of SDLC/ STLC (include deep understanding of Agile methodologies);
- Experience in Smoke, Sanity, System, Functional, Regression, Integration testing;
- Must have: Experience in using Black-Box test design techniques;
- Must have: Experience with web services and API testing (REST);
- Experience in Quality Artifacts creation/maintaining — Checklists, Test Cases, Bug Reports, RTM — in accordance with IEEE 829-1998;
- Good spoken and written English (at least Intermediate English written and verbal communication skills);
- Pro-activeness, self-organization, ability to work independently with minimum supervision;
- Analytical and creative problem-solving skills;
- Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment in a tight collaboration with a development team;
- Ability to communicate effectively in a team-oriented environment, readiness to learn through communication with more experienced engineers;

Knowledge of tools:
- Web-Dev tools;
- JIRA or any other issue tracking tools;
- Google Apps (Docs, and spreadsheet) and Confluence — collaboration software;
- Postman or any other tools for testing web-services and APIs;
- TestRail or any other Test management tools;
- Git or any other version control tools.

Would be a plus
Knowledge of tools:
- Selenium Webdriver or any other automation testing software;
- JMeter;
- Jenkins or another Continuous Integration application.

Responsibilities
- Contribute to the testing of one or more product features or sub-systems;
- Spend most of the time developing test code and performing testing in a
fast-paced environment using the — Scrum framework;
- Use investigative and analytical skills to find defects, whilst continuing to complete tasks;
- Review requirements specifications;
- Work with Product team to write User Acceptance Criteria for each story;
- Collaborate with developers as needed to understand requirements and technical implications; to resolve — problems and identify the root cause of product defects;
- Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout
the development process;
- Plan and estimate test effort, including the creation, maintenance, and review of test related documentation;
- Estimate, prioritize, and plan testing activities;
- Maintain QA plans/planning including timelines, assumptions, and risks;

About djangostars.com

Django Stars is a technical partner for industry leaders for more than 10 years. We do our best for clients and our clients are the best in their niches. No boring projects. No common solutions. We take real challenges where every team member can show off his skills.

Who you are
You are a professional keen on solving complex problems. Perfect code is not enough, you want it to meet business logic and build a product that rocks. A desire to grow and master your skills is what wakes you up in the morning, and IT-sphere variability is not a problem but a motivation for you.

Ok, you are the person we are looking for. Now let’s find out why Django Stars is the company you look for.

Our Expertise:
- We work with clients from startups to scalable businesses for more than 10 years;
- We created products in domains from healthcare and parent-child relations to booking engines and financial technologies;
- We build complex products accessible on the web, so we are not only into perfect frameworks’ knowledge but keeping an eye on architecture.


What are we proud of?
We helped our client to become the #1 mortgage broker on the Swiss market, developed the world’s #1 booking platform for scuba diving and created complex scheduling and payment software for the U.S. sport businesses.

Our Services:
- We do code but our main goal is solving customer problems and project challenges;
- We are responsible for development approaches as well as project architecture and infrastructure;
- We apply our cross-domain expertise to get the best results as a team.


Our services include Web and Mobile development, UX/UI Design, Quality Assurance, Data Science and DevOps.

Why Django Stars?
- The biggest Django team in Ukraine and one of the first commercial Django companies in the world (established in 2008); only in-house team members;
- Building complex projects in the web from scratch; problem-solving challenges for engineers of any level;
- Customers are a part of a team for closer cooperation, so there are business trips possible. Our key clients are based in the U.S., Switzerland and the UK;
- Highest development standard: own code style, TDD, CI, code review is a must;
- A transparent collaboration process inside and outside the team, we follow Agile/Scrum methodology;
- Modern and cozy office in Kyiv downtown, friendly and informal atmosphere;
- Competitive salary, medical insurance, paid vacation days, flexible schedule and the ability to partially work remotely;
- DOU rating 87/100.

We ARE:
- TOP-3 Python & Django Developers, #1 Web app developer in Switzerland, Top Web & Software Developers in Ukraine, Top Eastern Europe Software & Web Developers according to Clutch.co;
- Django and Python community supporters. We are sponsors of Django & Python Foundations, DjangoCon.eu, and Django Girls;
- People who share knowledge inside and outside our walls; we have internal events and participate in conferences in Ukraine and abroad.

We ARE NOT:
- Into bureaucracy;
- Taking one-man projects;
- Doing overtimes;
- Creating working chaos;
- Writing long company profile descriptions :slightly_smiling_face:

Company website: https://djangostars.com/