Position: QA Manager
Company: S-PRO
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Hi, there!

**About company**

S-PRO is a software development and IT consulting partner. We develop unique products tailored to the client’s needs and requirements and accelerate business. Our workflow with every project is Consultancy, Discovery, Build, and Maintain.

Industry and technology expertise is our strength. Research & Development is our energy.

With every project, we focus on a business need and deep-diving to clients’ core issues. Only after this analysis can we start development. This approach guarantees delivery of just the right product to our customers and minimizes idle work for our team.

**Industries we gained the expertise in:**

●FinTech
●Healthcare

We are seeking an experienced, dedicated, and well-organized Engineering Manager to manage Quality Assurance practice. This position will require someone who is adaptable in a changing environment and who is passionate about delivering high-quality results and people development.

**In this role, you’ll get to:**

Maintain ownership and responsibility of company expertise in QA practice;
Guide tech leads and individuals to successful delivery;
Get involved in multiple projects and foster quality processes.
Responsibilities:

**People management:**

- Actively participate in hiring by cooperation with recruiters, conducting managerial interviews for candidates, and training the team to do technical interviews;
- Support onboarding and adaptation for the newcomers;
- Engineers development and career coaching, personal development plans;
- Assess engineers levels during the promotion and give feedback around individual’s performance;
- Motivation, work with attrition case, people recognition;
- Smart bench management.

**Best process sharing across projects in a matrix organisation:**

- Test plans;
- Estimations;
- Build and manage regression and tests suits.
- QA competency growth;

**Optimise QA services;**

**Generate and implement quality engineering culture improvements company-wide;**

**Cooperation with Project Management organisation to support development activities.**


**Requirements to succeed in this role:**

- 5+ years experience as QA Engineer or Test Automation Engineer;
- Deep understanding of testing processes and methodologies with an ability to consult others;
- Excellent practical experience in testing web and mobile applications;
- Strong leadership and motivational skills;
- Experience in building efficient teams, ability to motivate and support staff;
- Excellent people management and communication skills.

**It’s Great if you have:**

- Experience in driving engineering organisation;
- Knowledge and experience in Test Automation;
- Mentoring skills.

**What we offer:**

- Long term focus: we create an environment of transparent communication, minimal bureaucracy, which leads to long-term relationships. Average term of work in the company is 24 months;
- Development of niche expertise: we are working in several niches, such as, FinTech, healthcare, and logistics. Therefore, our employees can develop their own expertise in these domains;
- Continuous learning: we create employee development plans / personal roadmaps /quick promotion process. The Learning and Development department implements on-the-job training. We have a knowledge base for team members, which is a virtual space with lots of videos of seminars, purchased lectures by external speakers, as well as documents describing work processes;
- Internal career development: 80% of our current executives were promoted to those positions within S-PRO. We encourage initiative. If a person wants to set new challenges and grow, we will definitely support them.

**Benefits and perks:**

- Flexible schedule: you can start the workday at any time from 8 to 11 in the morning;
- Hybrid work model: decide for yourself where you want to work: from our stylish and comfortable offices, your cozy home, or anywhere else;
- Medical insurance: all our employees who have passed the probationary period are now registered in our health insurance program;
- Paid vacations: so, we need to make sure that our employees regularly take vacations and don’t overwork;
- Regular salary reviews: there are two types:
planned annual salary reviews. Depending on employees’ results, we increase salaries by 20% to 30% annually;
optional reviews: 5 to 12 months before a planned annual review. Mid-year raises are based on an employee’s performance;
- Compensation for external training: we encourage the desire of specialists to develop by paying 50% of the cost of professional courses and conferences. And if someone successfully completes a course and receives a certificate, they may receive 100% compensation.