Position: QA Lead/Manager
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Project Description:
The projects are technically challenging in a very engaging environment making the most of cutting-edge technologies covering the domains of Real-Time, Big Data, Cloud, and Machine Learning.
Responsibilities:
Lead and mentor 10+ size QA team
• Build and drive QA processes for 6-9 scrum teams
• Be responsible for cross-functional test preparation and execution as well as end-to-end production readiness verification
• Elaborate test strategy, overall test approach and test plans with the different functions and across different teams
• Helps the different units to identify testing needs (within functions, cross-functional)
• Create and maintain CI/CD infrastructure
• Reviews resource allocation of the different units involved and assures timely availability of test environments
• Coordinates all testing activities (IT integration testing, user acceptance testing)
• Tracks execution of testing against plan and supports triage of defects and issues
• Manages issues related to data quality and availability (resources, environments) and escalates to program management if needed
• Reports progress to program management and other stakeholders on a regular basis
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Experienced, Test Manger certification will be a plus
• 3+ years of QA Team leadership experience
• 3+ years of test automation or other software development experience
• 5+ years of software testing experience
• Proven relevant commercial experience in system test automation
• Extensive experience in writing test in scripting
• Experience with version control systems such as Git
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test documentation (Strategy, Plan, Roadmap)
• Experience in automation framework creation, maintenance, and expansion
• Good understanding of Agile development environment
• Experience in working with remote and distributed teams is required
• Excellent presentation skills and interaction with internal/external customers
• Shows personal commitment, strong team player and able to work in a collaborative environment
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills, able to think logically and abstractly: recognizes discrepancies, connections and structures
• Strong management skills including leading successful teams, maintaining schedules, dealing with resource constraints, personnel development
Nice-to-Have Skills:• Experience in Financial Services or IB.