Position: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Company: esurance AG
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Dear potential colleague! We are esurance team glad to inform you that we are hiring! We do respect and appreciate your time and that’s why we collected all the information about us and about the vacancy. And, of course, we will be glad to answer all your questions!

**1. Who we are and what we do?**
esurance is the product company. We are a digital platform for smart insurance distribution. That means that we have our own technological platform that helps us to digitize insurance products, bring them online and help with the distribution in multiple ways. Think Amazon for insurance products for small and medium enterprises.  
                               **2. Why do we do this?**
We believe in real digitalization that creates value. This is a result of applying our core values to the domain of insurance products.   
                             ** 3. How do we do this?**
	We’ve built a set of core technologies (a platform) to help bring products online and help with their distribution through management of orders and interactions. We combine a products approach - building up our core platform technologies, and a project approach - we implement different types of projects for our partners (insurance companies, brokers, business software providers, etc)


                    **What professional skills are important to us?**
2+ years of manual testing web application/API;
strong knowledge of QA processes and methods, and an understanding of the test design approaches.
experience with bug/task tracking tools Jira, TestRail, etc.
deep experience in writing test documentation (test cases, checklists, bug reports).
deep experience in web application testing and browser debugging tools, understanding of HTTP protocols.
sharing our values (About Us Page)
                                      **Responsibilities:** 
Analysis of the documentation (documentation testing)
Definition of test-cases and test-scenarios
Implementation of API test automation 
What technology stack do we use in a project?
Zephyr Scale
Postman 
Playwright
GitLab
k8s
                         **What is important to us in this person?**
Good general QA skills. Both good understanding of manual QA, test documentation, test-cases, etc and an ability to create test automation
What to do in the project? What skills can be developed?
establish QA processes for the Core systems of a highly configurable platform. 
                            **Why was the position opened?**
Lack of current resources
Size and structure of the company and  department:
company size ~40
product + IT ~28
IT ~22
                          **How old is the company?**
7 years
Where are the people who make technical decisions on the project (country, accessibility)? 
It is done on multiple levels. Most of the decisions are done within a specific team. All IT management is in Ukraine
 **What interesting things are we doing as a company for ourselves?
 How do we as a company / project differ from others? Why go to us?** 
Truly interesting architecture (services oriented architecture, feature releases, workflow orchestration, eventual consistency mechanisms, multi-tenancy, inhouse DSL for insurance products configuration, etc)
            
                 **Management methodology (agile, rup, etc).**
Agile. Well defined Scrum and Kanban (depending on a tea,)
        **Salary review (when, amount of revision and based on what)?**
1-2 times a year based on an individual growth plan
               **Overtimes: paid or not, how often?**
Almost never happens. Always paid.
                                          **Conditions:**
**Is there a trial period and how long does it take?**
3 months
 **What is the schedule?**
flexible. 
**Number of vacation days?**
18
**Number of days of paid sick leave per year?**
5
**What computers and equipment does the company provide?**
Macbook 14”
**Social package (medical insurance, other):**
Insurance (a good one)
Education compensation (books, courses, certifications, etc)
**When, how and in what currency is the salary paid / considered?** 
Beginning of the month, paid in USD to the PE account 
**Interviewing process:**
**Who reviews the summary?** 
Alex Klimenko (CTO) and Max Grebin (QA Lead)
**How many interview stages with whom? How long is every stage?** 
Screening (Recruiter) 
Technical interview (Max Grebin, 1h) + Soft skills (Alex Klimenko, 1h)
Team interview, 1h
**Interview in English?**
Team interview might be in English, depending on who is present** Feedback in the latest in 2 days.


We are glad that you got acquainted with the vacancy! Please, contact us for providing more details!