Position: QA Team Lead
Company: Don't Panic Recruiting Agency
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Legatics is one of the world’s leading LegalTech scale-ups. We recently completed Series A fundraising and have a full and exciting roadmap for growth and global expansion. We're on a mission to transform the $600bn market for legal services worldwide and to work with law firms to bring the way they manage deals into the 21st century.

We’re looking for a lead for our Test & QA team. Reporting to the CTO you’ll take overall responsibility for test strategy and delivery and for the personal and professional development of members of the team. You’ll also work closely with engineering team leads and project management to coordinate test approaches and coverage and to ensure that testing is fully part of our delivery planning. You’ll need to make sure that the right testing is being done well.

Legatics`s business grows and our products become more and more complex our test needs are growing. We need to increase the amount of test automation and reduce the time needed for regression testing. We need to be confident that our products work as they should, scale, are secure, and are resilient to component failures. We want to be doing small, frequent releases and testing is key to that.

**Technology Stack: Node.js, MongoDB, GraphQL, Microservice architecture, Apollo Server, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ. **

**QA Team: 3 Manual test engineers, 2 Automated test engineers.**

Testing technologies: JS testing, TestTrail, Webdriver, Puppeteer.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the Test / QA team at Legatics. Lead recruitment activities for the team.
- Work with testers and software engineers to formulate a test strategy for Legatics, ensuring that our tools, processes, and working methods are the best they can be and suitable for our future growth.
- Plan scope and timescales for test activities for product releases.
- Ensure that the most appropriate test tooling and processes are in place and utilized.
- Work with Product Management and business teams to understand current and future requirements.
- Undertake test / QA activities yourself, either manual, automated or both.
- Be responsible for the planning and implementation of non-functional testing, including performance, scalability, and resilience testing.

**Requirements**
- Experience performing automated or manual testing of complex Web applications and associated backend services and infrastructure.
- Experience leading a team in an Agile product engineering environment.
- Knowledge of and ability to describe best practices in testing and test automation.
- Experience with a range of automated and manual test tools, processes, and approaches.
- Experience with API integrations and microservices architectures, and how to test them.
- Experience with Testrail, webdriver.io, JavaScript, Git / GitLab preferred. 
- Experience writing automated tests using Node.js is advantageous but not essential
- English B2+.

**What We Offer**
● UK-funded product start-up.
● “Remote first” approach with periodic meetings in the office.
● 20 vacation days a year + public holidays in Ukraine; 10 days off sick leave.
● Competitive salary in Pounds Sterling (GBP).
● OS - Linux.
● No overtime work; Strong, professional team.
● Close communication with the product owner and the UK team. 

**Recruiting process**

1. HR interview (30 min) 
2. Technical Interview (1,5 hours)
3. Interview with CTO (30 min)