Position: QA Middle+/Senior (with heavy Java coding background)  - outside Ukraine for relocate
Company: TechbrainJobs
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our partner, a well-known US financial company, opened a vacancy in an American office. The senior Developer, working independently, will develop, test, debug and document software components commensurate with their experience as well as direct development staff in support of a software engineering.

This opening is for a Associate Director in Test whose primary responsibilities will be to provide leadership in quality assurance best practices, report risks and issues to the leadership. Must have excellent communication and Presentation skills to represent quality assurance. Contribute in application architecture and infrastructure discussions to raise quality and testability concerns.
Essential Job Functions:
The associate director is generally autonomous in their oversight and active management of staff (3 to 8 approximately).
Contribute to the establishment, evolution and continued compliance with standard development and quality assurance practices and processes.
Effectively communicates testing activities, program risks and issues in oral and written formats.
Provides leadership in technology and quality assurance best practices
Contribute to and implement enterprise automation test strategies and plans.
Participate in application architecture and infrastructure discussions to raise quality and testability concerns.
Directly manage and/or influence separate focused teams on delivering high-quality results within the quality assurance discipline.
Identify and hire resources/skills needed within their organization.
Responsible for staff performance management, training & development (e.g., disciplinary)
Champion the collaborative resolution of defects including root cause analysis of production incidents.
Required Skills
Must be self-directed, detail-oriented and have excellent written & oral communication skills.
Solid understanding in computer science fundamentals - algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, and data structures.
Excellent understanding of the testing process, test types, test design, and testing methodologies.
Expert experience with a functional or performance or security or DevOps test tools.
Demonstrable experience with cloud-related technologies.
Should be well-organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities.
Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly.
 
Preferred( 2 or more skills)
n-tier applications (e.g.: Angular, REST service, Java-EE, etc.)
testing tools, frameworks and libraries. (e.g.: Selenium Web Driver, Protractor, Gatling, JMeter, Jasmine & Karma, REST Assured, JUnit, Scala test, etc.)
data ingestion, transformation, analytics, decision-making skills, etc.
DevOps, application engineering (e.g.: Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, etc.)
build, deployment and monitoring tools. (e.g.: Maven, Jenkins, AWS code deploy, Splunk, Black Duck, CloudPassage, etc.)
app security (e.g.: threat modeling, static code analysis, penetration testing, etc.)
 
Education/Experience Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/other STEM degree
7 years of hands on software development and/or test automation or the equivalent combination of training and experience. (or) Master's with 5 yrs.
2 years supervisory/management experience