Position: Head of QA
Company: SoftConstruct
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 3y
Published: 2022-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

Must-haves:

- +5 years’ experience in manual testing; 
- +1 year experience in automation testing (UI and backend);
- +2 years’ experience in people management or team leading ;
- Understanding of SOLID, OOP principles and design patterns, hands-on experience applying them into test frameworks;
- Understanding and practical usage of PageObject pattern;
- Understanding how to set up, maintain and support test automation process from scratch;
- Experience with Appium, Selenium/WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Selenide and other tools/frameworks;
- Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
- Test reporting tools experience (Allure or similar);
- Strong knowledge of test approaches, test design techniques.


Main responsibilities:

- Define QA strategy, unify manual and automation testing approaches, achieve and keep a high-quality level of shipped products;
- Leading and developing the QA team;
- Organize trainings (for both business and technical aspects), and manage performance evaluation of all QA team members;
- Focus on continuous QA processes and deliverables improvements;
- Improve/introduce proper documentation of the testing guides, processes, and policies. Track everything to be up to date;
- Build a set of clear and transparent KPIs based on bug tracking system data and other sources in order to visualize the quality of the product in each development phase, environment, etc;
- In collaboration with architects and managers enforce best practices, such as "root cause analysis", "continuous integration quality gates", track and escalate critical QA items in technical debt; 



What can we offer you:

- A team of experts, who are open to sharing knowledge and experience;
Interesting and challenging work in a product and customer-oriented technology company;
- Support in training and development, starting from developing IDP to paying for Ukrainian and foreign conferences and other events;
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly remote;
- Annual leave, short terms sick leave and all paid sick days;
- Full tax and accounting support of individual entrepreneur activities (Group III, single tax);
- Individual English classes at online school;
- Annual budget for training and/or sports.