Position: Lead Manual QA
Company: Ciklum
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

As Ciklum employee, you'll have the unique possibility to communicate directly with the client when working in Extended Teams. Besides, Ciklum is the place to make your tech ideas tangible. The Vital Signs Monitor for the Children’s Cardiac Center as well as Smart Defibrillator, the winner of the US IoT World Hackathon, are among the cool things Ciklumers have developed.

Ciklum is a technology partner for Google, Intel, Micron, and hundreds of world-known companies. We are looking forward to seeing you as a part of our team!

Description

On behalf of Ciklum Digital, Ciklum is looking for Manual QA Lead to join Kyiv team on full-time basis.

Responsibilities
- Best QA practices implementation
- Test Strategy preparation according to project and product specifics
- Improving or setting-up QA processes for different projects/products
- QA Consulting, QA Management and QA Audit
- Setup QA processes, approaches, frameworks, tools, and team composition from scratch
- Independent review and analysis of existing QA and development processes, products, test infrastructure and QA tools and improving them
- QA Estimation, Testing Methodology Implementation, Agile QA Process Management
- Coaching QA team members, QA trainings

Requirements
- 7+ years professional experience in QA area
- 5+ years of leading, coaching experience
- QA Process implementation knowledge
- Test Management systems implementation
- Team leading / management at least 5 people
- Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques and types
- Knowledge of testing specifics for different application types and business domains
- Deep understanding of development processes, approaches, infrastructure and tools
- Number of successfully delivered projects at least 5
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Solid upper-intermediate English level

Desirable
- Solid experience in automation, performance or security testing
- Proven QA Consulting experience
- 3+ business domains experience
- Understanding of programming languages (PHP, Java or Python)
- Experience with web automation tools (e.g. Selenium Webdriver)
- Experience of using version control systems (e.g. GIT)
- ISTQB, PMP, ICAgile, and/or other certificates

Personal skills
- Leadership
- Self-motivated and goal-driven
- Motivated to develop and solve complex tasks
- Excellent communication skills
- Will to take challenges and educate others

What's in it for you
- Career growth opportunities
- Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
- Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
- Professional skills development and training programs
- Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
- State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions