Position: Head of QA | QA Manager | QA Lead
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

• Overall responsibility for Quality activities across the business
• Building strong QA department from scratch that includes both automation and manual QAs
• Creation and implementation best practice quality vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance
• Ensuring that quality strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets and which enables the company to function and compete effectively in the market and in a sustained manner
• Evaluation of the challenges faced by the business and taking action to mitigate risks and develop opportunities
• Contributing to overall business strategy and annual budget process
• Establishing quality and reliability standards by studying industry benchmarks and the requirements of customers and research/design and development, and define the metrics required to assess performance against standards required
• Over 12 years of experience in QA
• Great technical expertise in Mobile and Web applications, Web services testing, distributed and
client-server message-oriented applications, solutions for the banking systems. Implementation and
development of fully automated testing processes on mobile and WEB platforms
• Wide experience in automation testing of high-load Big Data projects and creation of CI/CD
architecture from scratch. Construction of the development strategy
• Designing and applying appropriate project management standards. Wide experience in creation of
strong result-oriented team from scratch. Ability to handle conflicts effectively
• Great technical skills, both functional and non-functional, Manual and Automation in a continuous
delivery environment. Excellent communicator, influencing skills and negotiation skills to get management buy-in on ideas and concepts. Able to motivate a team, recognize good talent and bring out the best out of each individual
• Managing project risks, including the development of contingency plans
• Good skills in analyzing requirements which has not a clear definition, ability to dive quickly into
domain area knowledge, estimation of time-consuming tasks
• Liaising with appointed project assurance representatives to assure the overall direction and
integrity of the project. Development of the processes architecture within the team
• Providing and developing of the communication process to improve product quality
• Deep knowledge of testing technologies, wide experience in automated, integration and module
testing, strong SQL and noSQL. Extensive experience in test documentation (test plans, test
cases, requirements specification, acceptance criterias), detailed knowledge of Scrum methodology
• Written and spoken English at an Upper-Intermediate level
not important