Position: Senior QA Engineer
Company: Luxoft
Category: QA
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Project Description:
We are looking for open-minded and skilled engineers to extend our development team.
Our client delivers innovative, end-to-end media software and networking solutions to over 3,000 customers in more than 185 countries, including the top broadcast facilities and the most technologically advanced sports and live-event venues.
One of important product is a software-based, high video-quality transcoding solution built on own modern compression platform, which offers media companies a single solution for performing a range of encoding, transcoding, and related processing operations.

Aim of the project is development and maintenance of this platform.
The project require some generic understanding of video/audio processing.

Responsibilities:
- Evaluate functional, performance, and compliance requirements of client products;
- Develop test strategies, test plans/cases, and system configurations to efficiently validate compliance to product design requirements and design guidelines;
- Host test plan reviews and test results meetings with project stakeholders prior to and proceeding testing phases;
- Develop test reports and work with other team members to help understand and incorporate test results into cohesive quality metrics for the business;
- Assess, define and implement test execution processes and procedures to stream line the end-to-end deployment, tracking and reporting
- Utilize and integrate latest hardware and software, in combination with industry applications and tools to perform manual and/or automated analysis, verification and validation
- Participate in development, planning, estimation and prioritization processes for all testing activities
- Provide work breakdown and estimation for project life cycle (agile lifecycle)
- Where necessary, carrying out various internal training activities.

Mandatory Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent;
- 4+ years of testing complex back-end applications, including creating and tests executing.
- Readiness and desire to work on both manual and automation testing
- Experience of testing REST Web Services
- Understanding the Agile (SCRUM) Methodology
- Good spoken and written English
- Strong analytical skills
- Experience with automation scripting (Python preferred) and knowledge of any automation technology
- Knowledge of Windows, Windows Server and Linux operating systems

Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience in programming and/or scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, Perl, PowerShell, Bash, Java Script, Java
- Experience in VM: VirtualBox, Docker, Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of SQL, XML, HTML
- Understanding of network protocols TCP/IP & UDP & RTP
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline: Jenkins, Git, Mercurial, Vagrant, Ansible, SNMP etc.