Position: Lead QA Automation Engineer
Company: Ardas Group
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**What would you be doing?**

You will lead our AQA department, and you will report to the QA Lead
Research, develop and maintain automation pipelines
Integrate AQA results with QA and DEV processes
You will create automation frameworks according to project's and processes' specific, support test documentation
Provide an estimation of testing efforts
Develop test plan specifications and test case and advocate for the user
Build and maintain functional regression testing suite
Challenge the intent of the user story and defining/refining the acceptance criteria

**What we are expecting from you?**

Expertise in automation test frameworks integrations with QA processes, automation test plans and test coverage, test cases and test scripts of complicated applications with an understanding of the business requirement and adapting the testing with the requirement
Experience with Selenium WebDriver (Java, JUnit, Serenity, Cucumber, RestAssured)
Experience working with Java
Strong automated test tool proficiency with practical experience on any automation framework/scripting
Experience working with tools such as Postman, Git, Jira, Splunk, Fiddler, ReadyAPI
Demonstrable ability to test APIs, Web Services, WebApps, MobileApps.
Strong knowledge of the HTTP protocol Representational State Transfer (REST)
You have hands-on experience in SQL
You can use the Linux shell with confidence
Broad knowledge of testing microservices based architectures
Good communication skills in English
Knowledge of the Agile Software Development Life Cycle
Ability to work and collaborate in a team-based environment
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment testing environments (Jenkins)

**We offer:**

Continuous professional competencies development and professional growth opportunities
Flexible schedule (40h per week)
Paid trainings
Paid leave 18 days / Paid sick leave
Comfortable working place (2 monitors, productive tools)
Very warm and friendly working environment
Foreign languages learning in the company office (different levels of language skills; etc.)
Corporate/ team/ special events
We always encourage candidates from different locations to apply for our open positions. People who join the team and need to relocate from different regions, except Dnepr, are eligible to relocation bonus Challenging work in international professional environment
The opportunity to be part of an international team
You will be able to test and experiment with a lot of new stuff
A unique chance to gain a ton of experience in a real environment, working with a leading British company