Über die Stelle
- Drive and continuously improve QA processes, standards, and testing approaches across multiple teams.
- Define and implement QA strategy, testing scope, quality standards, and risk assessment.
- Participate in planning, requirements analysis, estimation, and release readiness.
- Build and maintain testing documentation, including test strategies and quality standards.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
- Lead distributed QA teams, mentor engineers, support their professional development, and conduct technical interviews.
- Experience defining, collecting, and analyzing QA metrics to drive continuous improvement.
- Collect and analyze quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
- Participate in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.
- Drive continuous improvements in engineering and QA practices across teams.
- Support the integration of automation into the overall QA process and testing strategy.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a QA Lead or similar leadership role.
- Proven experience improving QA processes and implementing quality standards.
- Strong experience defining testing strategies across multiple teams and services.
- Strong knowledge of test design techniques and software testing methodologies.
- Experience with functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
- Solid experience with manual API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.
- Experience analyzing database schemas and writing SQL queries to validate transactional data.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures (Kafka, message queues) and API contract testing.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray.
- Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, ELK).
- Experience integrating automation into QA processes.
- Define automation testing approaches, levels, and tools, and drive their integration into QA processes.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
- Experience leading distributed QA teams, mentoring engineers, and supporting their professional development.
- Experience participating in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.
- Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
- English level B2 or higher.
Nice to have:
- Experience with gaming or transactional systems.
- Experience with high-load distributed systems.
- Experience building QA processes from scratch.
- Experience with performance or load testing.
- Background in test automation.
Benefits
- 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
- Flexible start to the workday
- Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
- Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
- Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
- Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support