Position: Middle Manual QA Engineer for Ciklum (VavaCars)
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Project description:
VavaCars is part of the world’s biggest independent oil trader group, Vitol SA, with 40 offices worldwide. For the last half century, Vitol has served the world’s energy markets efficiently and responsibly, delivering energy products on a global scale.
Merging the tech and auto worlds VavaCars are building the first of its kind start-up offering in the world. To deliver this vision, we have already brought on board some of the best in their field from around the world and now they are on the hunt to find the brightest and the best to scale and grow our team.

About Quality Engineering Team:
Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 250+ professionals working in 7 main directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance, Cyber Security and Robotic Process Automation.

Our main principles are:
People are over processes and hierarchy.
Flat and open collaboration/communication increases creativity and brings more value to business.
Investing in people and innovations ensures your future.
Reuse and share your experience – Develop best practices, publicize and follow them.
Quality Engineering  Center of Excellence is an optimal environment for your professional involvement and growth.

Quality Engineering Team is unique provider of:
Manual QA Services
Automation QA Services
Performance QA Services
CyberSecurity Services
QA Consulting and Audit
DevOps Services
Support Managed Services
Robotic Process Automation

Responsibilities:
●	Requirements analysis and processing
●	Estimation of the testing activities 
●	Test cases/checklists and other types of test documentation creation
●	Perform testing activities on one big or several small projects, communicate with
developers and project managers
●	Test Summary reports preparation

Requirements (Hard skills requirements):
●	3+ years of professional experience in QA area
●	Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum
●	At least 2 years of real working experience with Web-based projects
●	Good knowledge in complex SQL queries
●	Understanding of non-SQL queries
●	Good experience in working with REST APIs, understanding of Soap APIs
●	Understanding of HTML/CSS/JS or JQuery
●	Excellent knowledge of bug life cycle
●	Excellent Jira skills
●	Upper-intermediate English communication skills
●	Good understanding of test design techniques
●	Service and teamwork orientation

Desirable:
●	Basic knowledge of programming languages (Python, Java, JS)
●	Experience with TFS, VSTS / Azure DevOps systems
●	Experience of using version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN)
●	BS + in Computer science or relevant

Personal skills (soft skills):
●	Good analytical skills
●	Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
●	Strong communication and problem-solving skills
●	Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
●	Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you?
●	Close cooperation with a client;
●	Constant flow of new projects;
●	Dynamic and challenging tasks;
●	Ability to influence project technologies;
●	Projects from scratch;
●	Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills;
●	European management style;
●	Continuous self-improvement.