Position: Senior Software Testing Engineer (QA)
Company: EPAM
Category: QA
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-06-01T00:00:00+03:00

DESCRIPTION
Candidate will join highly professional SF Commerce Cloud development team who's owning delivery of web-shop features for one of the largest Netherlands retailer.
The web-site was recently launched to life after 6 months of development, and now the client is looking to make this site the main digital sales platform to enable the business.

Team structure 
In Kyiv - 3 SFCC DEVs, 1 HTML5/CSS3 DEV, 1 Manual QA, Scrum Master.
In Netherlands (onsite) - UI Designer, UX Designer, Architect.

The team is using Scrum at team level and SAFe (Scaled Agile framework) to coordinate delivery according to the latest modern standards of collaboration.

Requirements for QA position:
Mandatory:
strong communication skills. Be able to perform client-facing activities, drive QA-related meetings, justify QA approach, present results, discuss blockers etc.
ability to plan and execute manual test cases for delivery sprints for web-shop platform (via UI and less frequently via APIs)
practical experience to create QA test management artifacts (like test strategy), be able to present this to different client roles and get into agreement.
experience working in Agile teams. Know how Agile practices recommend to manage Quality -related aspects on Team level (role of QA, built-in quality, Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done etc).
knowledge of QA theory (understanding of testing pyramid principle)
ability to provide constructive feedback  regarding the content of User Stories created by BA/PO to make sure it's testable. Suggest what should be improved to achieve clarity.
English - upper-intermediate or higher.

Nice to have:
experience to write a code (either DEV experience or any other scripting) 
be familiar with data analysis techniques (SQL, test data preparation in suitable formats etc)
past eCommerce web-shop testing experience
understanding of CI/CD concept and basic flow, especially steps related to quality assurance
ISTQB or similar certification