Position: Lead Automation QA Engineer
Company: Ciklum
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Our main principles are:**

▪️ People are over processes and hierarchy.
▪️ Flat and open collaboration/communication increases creativity and brings more value to the business.
▪️ Investing in people and innovations ensures your future.
▪️ Reuse and share your experience – Develop best practices, publicize and follow them.
▪️ Quality Engineering  Center of Excellence is an optimal environment for your professional involvement and growth.

**Responsibilities**
▫️ Test management and Test Automation processes:
▫️ Setup QA processes, approaches, frameworks, tools, and team composition from scratch
▫️ Develop and maintain Test Automation Strategy for different projects/products
▫️ Architect test automation frameworks (API, UI, Mobile) from scratch
▫️ Develop automated functional UI tests & API/Service level tests
▫️ Integrate automated scripts into CI/CD process
▫️ Develop, maintain and expand automated testing infrastructure
▫️ Devise and document test frameworks, coding standards, preferred design patterns and development methodologies
▫️ Ensure code quality with peer reviews to ensure guidelines and standards are followed
▫️ Define Quality Metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product as a part of test automation process
▫️ Make conclusion and report about the quality of the product under test
▫️ Collaborate with other members of the QA team to automate the manual test processes
▫️ Manage, analyze and mitigate testing risks
▫️ Talent and team management:
▫️ Participate in hiring / interviewing process
▫️ Onboarding of a new team members
▫️ Participate in grading of AQA team members
▫️ Mentor AQA team members, build and support their professional development
▫️ Define team composition and seniority pyramyd
▫️ Technical advice for the testing teams

**Requirements**
▪️ 6+ years of professional experience in QA Automation of Web/Mobile and backend API testing
▪️ 2+ years of experience in leading and managing of the Testing teams across the account
▪️ 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.)
▪️ Strong experience in creation of automation frameworks from scratch
▪️ Deep understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns, hands-on experience applying them into test frameworks
▪️ Coding proficiency in Java / C# / JavaScript / Python
▪️ Experience with BDD, TDD, ATDD
▪️ Solid experience with test automation tools like Selenium (or similar) and grids
▪️ Exposure to various web technologies such as gRPC, SOAP, REST, and OData
▪️ Hands-on experience with API testing frameworks or raw HTTP clients
▪️ Experience with different test runners
▪️ Experience of working with version control systems (e.g. GIT, SVN and others)
▪️ Strong experience with continuous integration processes and tools (Jenkins, TeamCity or similar). CI tools setup, tuning and configuration
▪️ Virtualization (Docker, Vagrant etc)
▪️ Experience of working in an Agile Scrum/Kanban development environment
▪️ BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
▪️ Good English skills – Upper-Intermediate or higher

**Desirable**
🔹 Experience integrating test reports
🔹 Virtualization environment management skills
🔹 Development of the mock/stub services
🔹 Experience working with DB (MongoBD, PostgreSQL, etc)
🔹 Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure)
🔹 Experience with cloud-based automation solutions like Browserstack, AWS Device Farm or similar

**Personal skills**
▪️ Self-motivated to continually learn and adopt the latest industry innovations and technology
▪️ Self-disciplined and result-oriented, able to work with minimal supervision
▪️ Strong communication and problem solving skills
▪️ Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
▪️ Good analytical skills
▪️ 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