Position: Middle Manual QA Engineer
Company: Djangostars
Experience required: 2y
Category: QA
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Necessary skills**
- Must have: 2+ year experience in testing of WEB-based applications;
- Practical knowledge of SDLC/ STLC (include deep understanding of Agile methodologies);
- Experience in Smoke, Sanity, System, Functional, Regression, Integration testing;
- Must have: Experience in using Black-Box test design techniques;
- Must have: Experience with web services and API testing (REST);
- Experience in Quality Artifacts creation/maintaining - Checklists, Test Cases, Bug Reports, RTM - in accordance with IEEE 829-1998;
- Good spoken and written English (at least Intermediate English written and verbal communication skills);
- Pro-activeness, self-organization, ability to work independently with minimum supervision;
- Analytical and creative problem-solving skills;
-  Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment in tight collaboration with a development team;
- Ability to communicate effectively in a team-oriented environment, readiness to learn through communication with more experienced engineers;

** Knowledge of tools:**
- Web-Dev tools;
- JIRA or any other issue tracking tools;
- Google Apps (Docs, and spreadsheet) and Confluence — collaboration software;
- Postman or any other tools for testing web-services and APIs;
- TestRail or any other Test management tools;
- Git or any other version control tools.

**Would be a plus**
Knowledge of tools:
- Selenium Webdriver or any other automation testing software;
- JMeter;
- Jenkins or another Continuous Integration application.

**Responsibilities**
- Contribute to the testing of one or more product features or sub-systems;
- Spend most of the time developing test code and performing testing in a 
 fast-paced environment using the — Scrum framework;
- Use investigative and analytical skills to find defects, whilst continuing to complete tasks;
- Review requirements specifications;
- Work with the Product team to write User Acceptance Criteria for each story;
- Collaborate with developers as needed to understand requirements and technical implications; to resolve — problems and identify the root cause of product defects;
- Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout 
 the development process;
- Plan and estimate test effort, including the creation, maintenance, and review of test-related documentation;
- Estimate, prioritize, and plan testing activities;
- Maintain QA plans/planning including timelines, assumptions, and risks;