Position: QA Team Lead
Company: Surprise
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Surprise.com is on a mission to turn the magical, uplifting experience of Surprise into a daily, weekly, and monthly life event – because it makes people happy.

**What will you be doing?**
Managing the QA development team(-s) and directs their activities so that the project is run within the constraints of scope, schedule, budget, and resources;
Delivering projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently;
Accelerating team performance by providing thoughtful feedback, technical mentorship, and setting goals and expectations;
Collaborating across teams to build and align strategies, translating them into plans and timelines, and facilitating partnerships between engineering teams and other teams/departments to execute them;
Writing checklists and test cases;

**What are we looking for?**
1+ years of experience as QA Lead;
5+ years of commercial experience;
Upper-Intermediate English or higher (B2+);
Experience with different types of manual testing: WEB, API (Postman, Swagger), Mobile (iOS, Android, Native mobile apps), Cross browser;
Ability to setup automation from scratch for UI/BE/Mobile;
Understanding of SDLC;
Understanding of test strategies;
Experience in writing test plans / Test Design Techniques;
Understanding of different testing methods and levels;
Ability to work by scrum and/or Kanban methodologies;
Experience in setting up an efficient testing and release process for different products layers;
Ability to track and monitor quality;
Skills in introducing new tool(s) for a team/company;
At least theoretical understanding of how to introduce automation on different testing layers;
Experience in performance and basics of security testing.

**What skills come in handy?**
ISTQB certifications;
Ruby or/and JavaScript knowledge;
Test Automation experience;
Experience working with Zephir Jira plugin;
Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.
Manual testing;
Communication with developers;
Requirements clarifications with stakeholders;
Bug reporting/tracking;
Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, plannings etc.).

**Benefits**
Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
Competitive salaries;
Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus);
English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
Corporate activities and parties;
Lunches, snacks, coffee and tea;
Dedicated wellness area in the office;
20 working days of paid vacation and Public Holidays of Ukraine;
15 days of paid sick leave;
Medical Insurance;
Corporate Taxi (from/to office; up to amount);
Parking option;
And, of course, we use Surprise internally!