Position: Expert Manual QA Engineer
Company: Ciklum International
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Responsibilities**:
Test management and QA processes:
○	Test Strategy/Test Plan definition and preparation according to project and product specifics, define quality gates
○	Setup QA processes, approaches, frameworks, tools, and team composition from scratch
○	Ongoing monitoring and improving or setting-up QA processes for different projects/products
○	Requirements analysis and processing
○	Estimation of the testing activities on a project\program level
○	Test reporting on Quality level to key stakeholders
○	Test risks management
○	Define and track required quality metrics
○	Testing Methodology Implementation, Agile QA Process Management

Project specific responsibilities
	
Basing on the data flows inventory in collaboration with QA engineers from the respective delivery teams:
○	Plan cross team integration testing (design test suites, arrange effort estimation, validate talents availability, plan timeline and enablers availability)
○	Perform change management
○	Coordinate execution
○	Monitor progress and risks
○	Implement mitigation actions.

People and team management 
○	Participate in hiring \ interviewing process
○	Onboarding of a new team members

Requirements (Hard skills requirements):
●	5+ years professional experience in QA area
●	At least 2 years real working experience with Web-based projects
●	Proven experience to setup core QA processes from scratch (including planing and estimation)
●	Excellent knowledge of different testing methods, techniques and types
●	Deep understanding of core Test Automation principles, role of Test Automation in Quality process - what to automate, when to automate. 
●	Knowledge of testing specifics for different application types - web, backend, mobile, embedded, high load, SaaS etc.
●	Experience with different business domains (Fintech, Retail, Automotive, eCommerce etc.)
●	Deep understanding of development processes, approaches, infrastructure and tools
●	Agile/Scrum experience
●	Upper-intermediate or fluent English level
●	Risk management
●	Hands-on working experience with Backend projects
●	Good knowledge in complex SQL queries, working experience with NoSQL Database
●	Good experience in working with REST and\or SOAP APIs
●	Understanding of HTML/CSS
●	Advanced Jira skills to setup dashboards, collect metrics, setup workflows

Personal skills (soft skills):
●	Good analytical skills
●	Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
●	Strong communication and problem solving skills
●	Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
●	Strong attention to details and accuracy


What's in it for you?
●	Close cooperation with client;
●	Constant flow of new projects;
●	Dynamic and challenging tasks;
●	Ability to influence project technologies;
●	Projects from scratch;
●	Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills;
●	European management style;
●	Continuous self-improvement.