Position: Lead Manual QA Engineer for Ciklum Team
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Ciklum is looking for a Lead Manual QA Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.

**Project description:**
**TUI** is the world’s leading tourism group. The broad portfolio gathered under the Group umbrella consists of strong tour operators, 1,600 travel agencies and leading online portals, five airlines with around 150 aircraft, over 400 hotels, 17 cruise liners and many incoming agencies in all major holiday destinations around the globe. It covers the entire tourism value chain under one roof. This integrated offering enables us to provide our 27 million customers with an unmatched holiday experience in 180 regions. A key feature of our corporate culture is our global responsibility for economic, environmental and social sustainability. This is reflected in more than 20 years of commitment to sustainable tourism.
The TUI Group’s share is listed in the FTSE 250 index, in the Quotation Board of the Open Market on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and regulated Market of the Hanover Stock Exchange

**Responsibilities:**
●	Test management and QA processes:
○	Test Strategy defining and preparation according to project and product specifics, define quality gates
○	Setup QA processes, approaches, frameworks, tools, and team composition from scratch
○	Ongoing monitoring and improving or setting-up QA processes for different projects/products
○	Requirements analysis and processing
○	Estimation of the testing activities on a project\program level
○	Test reporting on Quality level to key stakeholders
○	Test risks management
○	Define and track required quality metrics
○	QA Estimation, Testing Methodology Implementation, Agile QA Process Management
●	People and team management 
○	Participate in hiring \ interviewing process
○	Onboarding of a new team members
○	Grading of QA team members
○	QA team member People management
○	Mentoring QA team members, build and support their professional development
○	Defining team structure and seniority pyramyd 

**Requirements:**
●	6+ years professional experience in QA area
●	2+ years of leading experience at least 5 people
●	Proven experience to setup core QA processes from scratch
●	Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques and types
●	Deep understanding of core Test Automation principles, role of Test Automation in Quality process - what to automate, when to automate. 
●	Knowledge of testing specifics for different application types - web, backend, mobile, embedded, high load, SaaS etc.)
●	Experience with different business domains (Fintech, Retail, Automotive, eCommerce etc.)
●	Deep understanding of development processes, approaches, infrastructure and tools
●	Agile/Scrum experience
●	Upper-intermediate or fluent English level
●	Risk management
●	Hands-on working experience with Web-based and Backend projects
●	Good knowledge in complex SQL queries, working experience with NoSQL Database
●	Good experience in working with REST and\or SOAP APIs
●	Understanding of HTML/CSS
●	Advanced Jira skills to setup dashboards, collect metrics, setup workflows

**What's in it for you?**
●	Close cooperation with 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.