(Senior) QA Engineer

Experience

• Autonomy: Is independent and is able to mentor and lead other colleagues.
• Experience: Has more than five years (5+) of relevant QA experience.
• Technical Interviews: Is able to conduct a technical interview and provide feedback for any level.

Technical Experience – Basic

• Operating System (OS): Is expert in Linux, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Scripting: Is expert in shell and / or other scripting languages, for example, Bash, Perl, and Python. Is able to use common commands to search, process text and automate basic tasks.
• Source Code Management (SCM): Is expert in SCM tools, for example Git: versioning concepts, branching, merging, and build system.
• Networking: Understands the networking principles, for example, protocols and API.
• Virtualization / General: Has technical skills to work in virtual environment. Is able to configure / troubleshoot its own environment.
• Estimates / Own task: Is able to estimate own tasks to ±10%.
• Estimates / Tasks of others: Has experience in effort estimation for existing solutions.

Technical Experience – Specific

• Reviews: Is able to review the test scripts and test specifications of QA Team.
• Test Strategy

- Creates the test strategies on a project level and / or solution level, for example, resources, integration points, activities planning, and risk management.
- Works with senior management team and cross-functional project teams to ensure implementation of the overall QA strategy.
- Creates the regression environment and strategy.

• Test Planning: Is able to write test plans with the limited support from project expert (for example, architect, and / or tech lead).
• Test Automation: Is able to design and maintain automatic validation suites on a project level and / or solution level.
• Test Specification: Aligns with technical experts (internal and external) to understand and clarify requirements and make investigations. Determines the impact on testing strategies and raises concerns.
• Test Environment: Is able to create test environment with very limited support from project expert (for example, architect, and / or tech lead).
• Test Execution:

- Is able to write test scripts and automated test tools.
- Is able to execute complex test cases.
- Is involved in testing (integration, regression, performance, system, and acceptance) with very limited support from development colleagues.

• Test Execution / Troubleshooting: Has the analytical skills to identify where problems are occurring and determine the nature of the problem.
• Test Execution / Bug Reporting: Reports problems according to the reporting process, providing comprehensive information about them.
• Test Execution / Test Reporting: Centralizes results and provides status reports to Project Manager (PM).
• Functional Specification: Aligns with technical experts (internal and external) to understand and clarify requirements and business logic of the applications.
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery / Deployment (CI / CD) tools: Is expert in CI / CD solutions like Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub.

Customer Support

• Customer Support: Is able to offer customer support after delivery onsite and offsite, with limited support from project expert (for example, architect, and/or tech lead).

Tools and Processes

• Tools: Is expert in using the testing tools.
• Expertise: Follows the software testing tools and trends. Sets QA vision and grows existing QA capabilities to encompass best practices and ensure highest possible project quality.
• Process: Provides support for the QA department within the organization (for maintenance and improvement of the processes).
• Process improvements: Understands the quality testing processes, provides feedback for improvements, and is the driving force for them.

Communications

• General: Clearly communicates ideas both verbally and in writing, talks directly and openly about problems and is willing to demand and give feedback.
• Reporting: Reports status and progress for own tasks, team task and the whole project tasks.

Collaboration

• General: Works closely with the QA team, development team, Project Manager and other stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of requirements and the final project meets all necessary standards.

Mentoring

• Mentoring / Training: Creates and presents training materials to junior QA engineers and helps them develop their skills.
• Mentoring / Coaching: Shares knowledge through trainings, presentations and mentoring / coaching sessions to less experienced colleagues.

Leadership

• Team Lead: Builds the test team and depending on the needs, defines the size of the team, analyzes the set of needed skills, and defines the project assignments. Promotes the professional culture within the team and ensure quality standards are met, where individuals take responsibility for their work and take pride in delivering applications with the least possible bugs to the end user.
• Continuous improvement: Constantly seeks to improve testing processes, suggesting enhancements and implementing best practices to improve efficiency and quality.

Soft Skills

• Detail-Oriented: Attention to detail in identifying and documenting issues.
• Time Management: Efficiently manages time and resources to meet deadlines.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and priorities.