Position: QA Engineer
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 10


10+ years’ of professional experience in SQA, Testing and Team Leading
Overall 15 years work experience in IT, Media and Management areas

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES
• Team leading. Organizing and support of QA processes, clear understanding of SDLC and STLC and the relationship between them, mentoring, interviewing, meetings facilitation, driving performance appraisals and other Scrum activities. Communicating between all team members to establish general understanding and reach a common goal. Team building and other meeting organizations.
• Work with distributed teams and freelancers. Remote work, which included harmonious and effective communication with Project Manager, developers UI/UX designer and other team members with cross-cultural differences.
• Strong negotiation skills during communication with customers and team. Organizing and leading distributed meetings, client demos and UATs.
• Managing team with up to ten specialists, including onboarding, mentoring and problem-solving activities, creating and managing processes, supporting project documentation.
• Collecting and analyzing test metrics. Preparing test and issue reports, analytics, burndown charts, diagrams, and other testing artifacts.
• Performing different types of testing based on projects' needs: functional, GUI, regression, requirements, acceptance, compatibility, exploratory, integration testing and other kinds. Basic knowledge of automation, security, performance and load testing.
• Project planning activities, such as: requirements analysis, test plans preparation, test effort estimating,  evaluating test results and providing detailed QA results' reports and other documentation.
• Practical knowledge of different software development life-cycles and methodologies e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
• Some knowledge of Python, JavaScript, Selenium, HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, etc. Working with WordPress, PrestaShop and other CMS and eCommerce engines.
• Knowledge of Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, WebOS, etc.
• Participation in volunteering programs, startups and hackathons.
• And much more..
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Self-motivated, responsible, fast and open to learn new technologies, goal-oriented team player with strong time-management and analytical skills.