Position: Senior QA Engineer (Backend) (Poland)
Company: Luxoft
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Responsibilities
• Clarifying functional requirements with the business/ system analysts
• Identifying and reporting gaps between requirements and the implementation plans
• Lead the QA activities in the team
• Applying and owning QA best practices in the team
• Preparing test strategy and test plans and presenting it to the team
• Estimating the testing phases
• Developing and executing test cases
• Test data preparation
• Working with Subject Matter Experts in order to improve Test Strategy
• Reporting the status of testing to Team Lead / Project Manager
• Performing manual testing of the back-end system to ensure they satisfy the business requirements, and meet the design/specification
• Identifying and reporting defects, tracking them till resolution
• Interacting with the production support and testing teams
• Identifying non-functional requirements, converting them into test cases
• Gathering test metrics with further analysis
• Root cause analysis of 'escaped' bugs

Skills

Must have
• 5+ years of experience in software testing, at least 2+ years testing of large backend applications and databases
• Pro-activeness, self-organization, good communication skills, readiness to perform and focus on the result
• Troubleshooting skills
• Strong knowledge of testing approaches and methodologies
• Experience with Jira and Xray plugin
• Sufficient SQL knowledge to perform data analysis
• Experience with Oracle DB
• Basic Python / Automation skills
• Understanding of Agile practices

Nice to have
• Degree in Computer Science or relevant technical specialty
• Advanced Level of ISTQB Certification
• Knowledge of any programming/scripting language
• Knowledge/experience in financial domain
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Experience with NoSQL databases (we use MongoDB)