Position: QA Manager/ Senior Manual QA
Category: QA
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 7

I grew up from a manual tester to QA Manager.
QA Manager:
1. Meet timelines and goals based on company objectives;
2. Ensure knowledge sharing and collaboration within the QA team;
3. Ensure team performance and help remove blockers;
4. Enlarge automation test coverage and accelerate testing process;
5. Collaborate with product leadership to change process and company policies as needed;
6. Ensure professional development of QA members;
7. Participate in product analysis discussions and provide input to ensure usability and quality are top priorities during the development stage;
8. Participate in the hiring process, creating job descriptions and interviewing QA candidates.

Manual QA tasks:
1. Obtain subject matter expertise in the assigned area;
2. Perform manual testing of the application (functional, regression, usability);
3. Identify bugs and document bugs in the appropriate tracking system;
4. Write test documentation (Test Cases, Bug Reports, Checklists);
5. Take part in daily stand-up, grooming, planning, retrospective, etc. meetings;
7. Perform REST API testing (postman, swagger);
8. Advanced test validation using MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch (kibana);
9. HTML/CSS (create mock-ups when needed);
10. Linux CLI (deploy, basic git commands);
11. Basic JS skills (e.g.: element selectors), Chrome Debugger.