QE Lead (full-remote)

Project description

We are looking for an experienced developer who will be a member of the team focused on a large distributed application that gathers project-related data at one place and allows internal teams to efficiently collaborate on complex projects.

The application is very high-profile, uses microservice architecture and is built with focus on the highest possible technical quality using the most modern technology stack.

High-level overview of the candidate

We are looking for somebody who:

• Is able to lead a team of 7 testers
  1. Centre point of communication for client representatives (Junction management)
  2. Overseeing quality and timely fashion of development
  3. Taking care of team members
  4. Keeping project documentation updated and light reporting
• Is great hands-on automation tester
• Is able to produce high quality test analysis.
• Is able to define and evaluate test management best practices
• Is able to efficiently communicate, explain testing ideas, consistently “fight” for good things to happen and be introduced in relation to SDLC (be it new tools, new testing approaches, new techniques...)
• Is able to help people around to get things done
• Has a strong sense of responsibility and commitment
• Strong ability to verify assignments and proactively propose improvements
• Ability to self sufficiently and proactively look for solutions

Detailed Position Description

• Define strategy and priorities of the QA team. Organize daily team’s activities.
• Setup effective KPIs to ensure the best quality of the product. 
• Designing independent automated test cases for newly developed features.
• Reporting about test results, bugs, high-level testing strategies, and reports about implementation and efficiency.
• Working with other QAs to document the quality processes for replication in other projects.
• Managing testing projects during each phase, according to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Must  be able to evaluate multiple technical platforms and tools to determine the best platform and/or tool to deliver on a business requirement while achieving low TCO.
• Making improvements to functionality, design, and usability of new products.
• Collaboration with Product Owners, Project managers, Analysts and Developers

Requirements / Must Haves

• Test Script Creation experience beyond Record/Playback
  1. Must: At least 2-4 years of hands on experience
• Test Scripts programming (full cycle)
  1. Nice to have: Handson experience in the end to end automation lifecycle
• Senior QA/Testing 
  1. 4-5 years of experience on 3 (or more) different projects
  2. - Should be well knowledgeable of testing process - different kinds of testing and its placement and test artifacts
• Both technical and non-technical problem solving: Must
• Must
  1. Self-starter / Quality-driven
  2. Good Communication and collaboration skills
  3. Quick Learner
  4. Analytical Approach
  5. Attention to detail
• Very good English for daily communication
• Strong communication skills and be self-motivated.
• Mindset of consultant - propose innovations, explain reasons for change, guide non-technical people
• Ability to work with team from US time-zone (standard work-hours by 6pm CET, but longer overlap with US time helps, there is ~7 hours offset to GMT+1, so the position is more suitable who likes to wake up later/not an early bird)
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to understand UML and BPMN designs.
• Vast experience with test automation.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle on an Agile (Scrum) team.
• Experience in creating effective test plans and BDD test cases.
• Experience in creating test plans based on e2e scenarios.
• Experience in cross-platform client testing (mobile, web, diff browsers).
• Knowledge of various software testing methods. (Smoke & Sanity, Regression, Integration, Mobile, Cross-platform, Component, Performance, UI / UX, Acceptance).
• Prior QA Lead experience
• Ability to code-review.
• Ability to make estimations for test coverage.

Technologies

• Intermediate/SeniorProgramming/Scripting: 
  1. Must: One of Java/C#/Python. Hands on experience with programming
  2. Nice to have : JavaScript,Ruby or any other scripting languages
• Framework experience
  1. Hands on experience with at least one of ( modular, data driven,keyword driven, hybrid) automation frameworks. Preferably Selenium, Robot, Jmeter, SOAP UI
• Cross-platform Technologies
  1. Mandatory: XML/Xpath, SQL; Optional: HTML/XSL
• Test Tool Stack (Candidates who have hands-on experience with following tool stack would have preference)
  1. Robot Framework (UI Automation)
  2. Jmeter (API Automation)
  3. JIRA/ Azure DevOps ( Issue tracking agile tools)
  4. Jenkins/ Azure Devops (CICD/build )
  5. Github
     
• Other: 
  1. RestSharp, Rest api, Swagger, Postman
  2. xUnit, MS Test - unit testing, integration testing.
  3. Knowledge of incident tracking and test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail, HP ALM) 

Other Skills/ Abilities / Would Be Nice

• Experience in Cypress framework.
• Experience in Azure DevOps Pipelines or similar solutions.(e.g. Jenkins)
• Docker, Kubernetes