Position: Lead Quality Engineer
Company: Takeoff
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

In this role, you will leverage your experience to lead a team of testers, located in both our Waltham and Kyiv offices, dedicated to system testing of our e-commerce platform.  You will work with the team in evaluating the best strategy and procedures for testing our platform as a complete and fully integrated solution.

You will be involved in:
- Mentoring and coaching a team of Quality professionals
- Promoting the continuous improvement of test and software release processes and best practices related to software qualification and release activities
- Collaborating with Agile scrum teams to ensure feature testability and appropriate test coverage and testing best practices
- Working with the team to improve and expand test coverage in areas such as usability, load, regression, and end-to-end
- Reviewing and assessing best tools and strategies utilized for testing of new and existing features
 - Collecting, managing and communicating test results, trends and anomalies to appropriate stakeholders

Requirements: 
-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline
- 8+ years of experience working as a Software QE engineer
- 4+ years as a team lead in a software engineering organization
- Strong understanding of SDLC and testing methodologies
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Experience testing API-driven applications
- Proficiency in Java 
- Experience testing containerized applications and cloud deployments
- Experience in testing modern microservices architectures and distributed systems