Position: Senior Software Tester
Company: SKILLERS
Category: QA
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

The Role:
You’ll be someone that’s looking for a challenge, eager to learn and develop, has passion for Agile methodologies, and wants to be part of a collaborative high-performing technology organisation in a fast-growing scale-up company.
You’ll have an energy that inspires those around you and engages team members to learn from their mistakes and grow in their disciplines. With a strong emphasis on outcomes and our customers, you’ll be constantly pushing Aptem forward in our thinking, our approach, and our strategy to building high performing teams.

Core Responsibilities:
- Scrum team tester dedicated to a single feature team
- Work closely with Product Owners and Delivery Management to facilitate the planning and successful delivery of current and future sprints
- Participate fully in typical Agile team ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, retrospectives, refinement, estimation, and sprint reviews
- Work collaboratively with whole scrum team to ensure a high-quality delivery to customers
- Cooperate with other testers and others executing testing during the regression testing process, as well as working to maintain and improve regression test coverage as needed
- Participate in our Test Community meetings, including helping facilitate workshops and deliver training on areas of expertise (or research and deliver workshops in areas of especial need)
- Provide coaching and mentorship to team members, peers, colleagues, and anyone else that may help improve quality.Drive transparency and encourage collaboration both inside and outside of scrum teams
- Act as a coach to the business on Quality techniques and the benefits that they deliver
 
What you should have:
- Minimum of four years’ experience as a software tester (or equivalent demonstrable experience in a related, hands-on technical field).
- Knowledge of different Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience working within software development scrum teams.
- Comprehension of multiple techniques and approaches when testing software.
- Strong communication skills, including English language to a B2 or higher fluency.
- Experience working with a co-located team, distributed team, and remote team.
- Continual drive for higher standards of practice within the testing discipline.
- Experience working in a product environment.

Good to have:
- Experience applying testing concepts such as Testing vs Checking, Shift Left/Right, Session-Based Exploratory Testing and the role of automation in the quality process.
- English language to a C1 or native fluency
- A desire to grow and advance within the testing function
- Ability to work with trust and minimal supervision
- Strong ability to take ownership of problems and work towards resolutions
- Experience using a code-based automation framework such as Playwright, - Selenium or Cypress.

Company offers:
- Remote full-time job (also possible to work from the office in Kyiv in future).
- 20 paid holiday days per annum
- 5 paid sick days per annum
- Competitive salary level.
- Flexible working hours (with a core day of 10am - 7pm to align with UK time)
- English tuition
- In case if overtimes happen and approved - it is paid at a rate of 1.5 x salary at the discretion of the CTO