Position: AQA Lead (C#)
Company: Newfire Global Partners
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**You perfectly match if you have:**
- 5+ years of commercial experience as QA.
- 2+ years of proven experience in leading a team of QA engineers.
- Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques.
- Understanding of concepts of Software Development Life Cycle.
- Experience with common QA methodologies, release lifecycle.
- Proficiency in planning and coordination of teamwork.
- Knowledge of the bug/task tracking methodology and systems.
- Knowledge of software test documentation principles: test cases, test plans, test scenarios, etc.
- Experience with WEB, API and DB testing. 
- Hands-on experience in collecting efficient QA metrics.
- Experience in building the overall QA strategy and setting up the testing process from scratch. 
- Ability to create gap analysis and a remediation plan (QA and related areas).
- Experience in automated testing and experience in defining priorities for 
- AQA engineers. Understanding of how to utilize automated testing efficiently.
- An ability to own the overall quality strategy for OPI, connecting the unit, API, E2E, L&P test suites to form an overall quality architecture.
- Proficient in spoken and written English.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and writing skills.

**The goal for this role is to:**
- Fully eliminate manual testing and switch to automated test suites;
- Decrease release tail to a few minutes/hours, i.e., a deployment of the entire service/component release will happen minutes or hours after any code change.

**What's the project?**
This client partners with brands to break barriers and build bridges all over the world. For more than 20 years, they have helped companies connect with global customers by delivering marketing, testing, and globalization services in more than 300 languages. Through their world-class platform, they orchestrate a network of 500,000 passionate experts in 5,000-plus cities, who partner with brands to create culturally rich experiences. Relentless in their love for linguistics, they use the best of human and machine intelligence to forge an understanding that resonates with their customers’ customers.