Position: Quality Assurance Manager
Company: Forte group
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

From a customer perspective, the platform is a mortgage offer aggregator that allows users to upload all financial documents and get information at what conditions they could get a mortgage from multiple providers, compare and choose the best deal. From a business perspective, this is an end-to-end business management system with both customer and internal personnel administrative apps and a sophisticated backend with 3rd party integrations. Architecturally, the platform contains multiple components, such as consumer web application, business administration application, agents portal, CRM system, documents processing, IP-telephony, integrations with multiple engines to automate financial calculations. As a QA Lead you will have the opportunity to head the team of QA’s working across multiple products within the platform. Here you will design, implement and lead a full set of QA practices, both manual and automation, that guarantees quality artifacts will be released to production for each platform deliverable. This is a high impact and high autonomy role that assumes tight integration will be built between QA, product and development teams and improve their joint way of working. This role gives the opportunity to master professional skills in QA management and grow into the next level of expertise.

**Technologies and Tools**

● Frontend: React.js (hooks), Redux (redux-toolkit), TypeScript,  Vanilla JS, Formik, Material-UI, styled-components
● Backend: .NET Core, EF Core, Azure App Service, Azure Functions
● Databases: Azure SQL
● Repository: GitHub
● Tools: Azure DevOps, Post

**Responsibility**

●  Evaluate existing QA processes and suggest improvements
●  Drive the full cycle of product testing (functional, regression testing, integration, smoke, performance, end-to-end, UI and API-level etc.)
●  Analyze the new solutions impact and suggest appropriate testing methods
●  Identify and help solve challenges in the development pipeline
●  Lead QA team to maximum automate tests as part of existing CI/CD process
●  Develop internal QA talents and ensure engineers potential is identified and encouraged
●  Mentor software engineers and QA engineers in QA processes and best practices
●  Introduce product quality measurements
●  Prepare quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, robustness, etc.
●  Hire, train, and supervise QA staff

**Required Experience and Skills**

●  Minimum 3 years in a QA leadership position, strong ability to lead a QA team of 4-6 specialists
●  Strong in Planning and adjusting the existing process
●  Solid communicator, strong people management skills, ability to challenge and develop talent
●  Proven experience validating and verifying quality of complex distributed systems in multiple environments using .NET backend, JavaScript frontend or other technologies
●  Understanding of project management and testing methodology
●  Experience in testing Web applications, high-load systems (desirable)
●  Strong in Functional, Integration, Performance and Regression testing
●  Knowledge of Scrum and other Agile methodologies
●  Excellent problem solving, leadership, collaboration, and teamwork skills
●  Intermediate English level or higher, ability to freely communicate at meetings

**Nice to have**

●  Demonstrated expertise validating and verifying fault tolerant, low latency distributed systems at scale in a cloud utility stack (such as Azure)
●  Simplicity is your goal – even when it takes more work to achieve that goal

**We offer**

● Experience exchange with colleagues all around the world
● Opportunities for self-realization
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Engineering, corporate and social events
● Social package: professional & soft skills trainings, medical & family care programs, sports
● Free English classes