Position: Lead QA
Company: Mind Studios
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

At the heart of Mind Studios is the concept of turning ideas into working businesses, which makes us trusted partners. Due to the steady inflow of 2-3 new projects a month from the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, we’re growing. If you share our mindful approach, we can offer you dream work.

In this role you will:
— Develop the process for writing test case description so that you can easily on-board new QA-s in projects
— Develop the process for calculating the time for testing features/modules/projects
— Develop the process for identifying requirements for software testing at the start of the project (what devices, OS, browsers, etc.)
— Automate QA processes for Live projects, stupid manual work, develop and maintain automation frameworks
— Bring a load, security, database testing processes for Live projects.
— Develop QA metrics and work on improvements
— Develop IDPs for your QA team, conduct reviews, 1×1 meetings, interviews
— Manage release processes (what we release, when, how we prepare, results after the release)
— Write test documentation (test plans, test cases/checklists etc.)

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:
— Building expert teams hungry for knowledge and aiming to create products that stand out. We support and encourage our teams to take up courses, visit conferences, learn and develop as professionals and as people
— Doing a job that’s high-quality and successful — we prefer projects that are interesting, ambitious, and allow us the time and opportunity to grow
— Offering our employees the freedom and flexibility to work comfortably on projects that matter to them, so that they could do their best. We stick to trust and loyalty when everything is based on your own task estimates
— A highly generous budget for education depending on the employee’s level
— Work from office or remotely
— Paid vacations (23 business days) and sick leaves
— Transparency — monthly reports on company’s state of affairs

What is important to join us:
— 4+ years of experience as QA Engineer
— Team management experience
— Experience with on-boarding and coaching of QA team members
— Ability to manage multiple projects with strict deadlines
— Ability to focus on multiple tasks simultaneously
— Strong problem-solving ability and proactiveness
— Strong knowledge of testing native iOS, Android mobile application
— Understanding of web technologies: HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML/JSON
— Advanced user in logs information processing (e.g Kibana, Graylog, Logcat)
— Experience with REST API testing (e.g. Curl, Swagger, Postman)
— Familiar with Charles, Fiddler, Kafka, Android Studio, GitLab, Firebase, SQL
— Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies
— Solid understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum)
— Upper Intermediate English level

As a plus:
— Understanding of programming language (Java or any other)