Position: Team Lead Manual QA (web/mobile)
Company: Qarea
Category: QA
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Job brief
If you are seeking the opportunity to be a QA team leader, to have the team of proactive, qualified and motivated QA Engineers, to contribute to the development of the testing department and to engage the team to achieve professional goals - you can be exactly the one we are looking for!

Team Leader Job Purpose:
Manages and leads a team of QA Engineers. 
Implements the company goals to the team. 
Motivates team members and evaluates their professional achievements and performance. 
Participates in hiring, interviewing and training the employees.
Provides quality customer service for potential and current customers and effectively handles customer requests.

Requirements
3+ years of experience in QA
Good experience in client-server applications testing
Good understanding of testing processes, methods and concepts
Good experience in test-cases developing and execution, defects reports creation
Experience with different testing types (functional, exploratory, regression, confirmation, UI/UX etc.)
Good English skills (Advanced level)
Team Leadership Experience (1+ years)
Excellent (including Oral and Written) communication and leadership skills
Organizational and time-management skills
Decision-making skills
Interviewing Skills
Customer Service Skills
Self-Motivation
Strong Relationship Building

Duties
Setting clear team goals and communication with the team members
Designating tasks and set deadlines for the QA team
Monitoring the team performance, detecting training needs and areas for professional growth, providing mentoring and coaching
Defining the high performance and reward accomplishments for the team members
Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives
Lead by seeking the team consensus and win-win agreements
Provide quality customer service, including presell activities (like providing the consultation on the QA services and best practices of the company, help Customer to understand QA strategies, methods and approaches, that are used etc.)
Focus the team on the tasks and coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary
Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the testing processes and standards, techniques and tools to support task performance
Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards
Ensure deliverables are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, cost and schedule
Provide the project and/or product manager with the status on the task accomplishment, issues and status
Communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams