Position: Head of QA Department
Company: Empeek
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

It will be a person who`ll become such type a Competence Lead, which can develop the QA team, their competences and help with critical technical questions on our existing projects.

**Required Qualifications:**

- 4-5 years of experience as QA Engineer overall;
- 2+ years in a Lead QA role;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate and articulate to stakeholders and management across multiple business functions;
- Extremely detail-oriented with a self-starter personality;
- Experience of coordination and execution all aspects of testing efforts from project inception to post-launch;
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into test cases and test scenarios;
- Expertise in various forms of software testing: functional and non-functional testing – Integration, System, Regression, and End to End testing;
- Experience implementing testing strategies and leading the testing effort within agile development processes;
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Background with Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and frequent release cycles.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide QA expertise through the instruction of team members on how to test our software and lead by example;
- Establish and evolve QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices;
- Improve standard operating procedures to ensure consistency in the way we test software;
- Lead agile planning from a QA perspective by establishing tasks/estimates;
- Ask the right questions at the right time to reduce the introduction of quality risk;
- Follow through and communicate design decisions to everyone on the team.