Position: QA Manager
Company: SoftServe
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

WE ARE
SoftServe is a global digital leading software developer in Europe. 13,000+ talented individuals are currently working on 1,100+ projects with clients in the USA, Europe, and APAC region. SoftServe is about open-minded people who love technology and have the environment of crafting their personal and professional growth.

Successfully collaborating with our Client, one of the world’s largest drugstore chains, a global leader in retail and wholesale pharmacy with more than 100-year history. It’s a company with more than 225, 000 members who share a common goal of making health and well-being within reach for everyone on a daily basis.

YOU ARE
As the Quality Manager, you provide vision, leadership, and personal implementation of quality engineering, quality assurance, and testing initiatives for software product development cycles across a growing portfolio of successful software companies within the client's family. You own defining and improving the testing processes and procedures leveraged by multiple and diverse teams performing software development and testing. You further own defining and gaining senior leadership consensus for specific plans to meet ongoing corporate quality improvement goals, leveraging quality and testing products developed and sold by the customer

A holder of the following experience

Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer science, or a relevant field
5+ years as an individual Quality Assurance Engineer and as a Quality Assurance Manager
Proven track record of building and continuously improving Quality Engineering teams
Managing distributed teams
Implementing test management software and automated testing frameworks: TestRail and Ranorex, or similar tools
Broad technical knowledge in programming languages (Java, C#), operating systems (Windows, Linux), and VM hosting environments (VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure)
Testing a wide variety of products: web applications, .NET and Java console applications, development libraries and APIs
Successful definition and upholding the expectations for quality practices within the organization
All phases of software life-cycle testing, including test planning, functional testing, automation testing, and regression testing
YOU WANT TO WORK WITH
Your duties will enable you to

Lead and mentor multiple Quality Engineering (QE) teams servicing the client's family of products
Standardize process and reporting for all testing
Leverage automated testing to expand QE team abilities and impact
Manage the planning, estimation, and execution of product testing efforts, including team resources to meet product delivery dates
Continuously improve the documentation and development team education of proper and thorough testing techniques and tools
Ensure testing plans cover all aspects of product features and are kept current
Apply the efficient and flexible testing approach to successfully handle a high volume and diversity of product releases presented for testing with a focus on continuously improving outcomes
Track and report team testing activities including test plans, test case coverage/results, defects discovered, and evaluation of the criticality of defects and acceptable workarounds
Anticipate potential release problems and take successful, corrective action
TOGETHER WE WILL
Own all technical aspects of test tools, frameworks, and improvement plans to ensure delivery of testing results on time
Define and lead the company’s product development quality improvement initiatives
Be in charge of implementation and conversion of quality systems to drive successful product release results