Position: Senior Manual QA Engineer for Ionir
Company: Ciklum
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Ionir is a revolutionary container native software defined data management platform for Kubernetes for edge, private, hybrid, or multi cloud deployments.

Our scale-out platform is implemented with containers and runs natively in Kubernetes and allows our customers to create a consistent data cloud across all their cloud resources with instant mobility of applications and data.

Responsibilities on the project:
- Work with complex architecture of a micro-service, container based data management system.
- Be responsible for all quality aspects lifecycle starting form understanding and gathering of product requirements and ending at tracking and owning feature status and maturity.
- Become the quality advocate inside the scrum team, working closely with our developers, DevOps, Automation & Product teams.
- Write and execute manual and scripted test plans to meet release quality criteria.
- Investigate, debug and document defects of complexed micro-service container based system with running in cloud environment

Requirements:
- 5+ years professional experience in QA area
- At least 4 years of real working experience with Web-based projects
- 3+ years focusing in the Core and Back-End of a Linux based product
- Experience in Linux operation system
- Ability to script (bash, python, java, etc.)
- Good knowledge in complex SQL queries
- Working experience with NoSQL Database
- 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 knowledge of SDLC
- Excellent Jira skills
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum/Kanban
- Upper – intermediate English communication skills
- Good understanding of test design techniques
- Service and teamwork orientation

Desirable:
- Understanding of programming languages (Python, Java, JS)
- Experience with TFS, VSTS / Azure DevOps systems
- Experience of using version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN)
- Experience with web automation tools (e.g. Selenium Webdriver)
- Experience with storage
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with public cloud environments, AWS, Azure, etc.
- Experience with performance testing tools (e.g. jMeter)
- BS + in Computer science or relevant

Personal 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 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