QA Manager (Líder de Qualidade de Software)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute by taking the lead of the QA stream, scoping, planning, scheduling and executing QA activities, and providing QA advice to the engineering team throughout the development lifecycle.

• Support the Product Owner / Project Manager to estimate and challenge the testing effort.

QA Operations:

• Review functional specifications and translate them to test cases.

• Execute tests during System Integration and User Acceptance test phases alongside the project teams.

• Take full responsibility for the tickets in relation to QA (bugs, test phases, test runs) in the issue tracker.

• Support the Technical Leader and the Product Owner to identify risks and define corrective actions.

Planning/Coordination:

• Plan and coordinate product testing phases (System Integration Tests, User Acceptance Test, Regression Test, to name a few).

• Communicate quality standards and parameters to QA team, product development team, and other appropriate staff.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Developers, Scrum Masters, Architects…) aiming to improve operations and provide recommendations for change.

Test Automation:

• Design, Develop, Maintain & Manage test automation scripts for the developed product using platforms such as Playwright.

• Focus on expansion of the test automation scope

• Troubleshoot and report defects to the development team before they reach the production environment

• Apply corrections to test scripts as the product evolves

• Be able to answer to Functional and non-functional requirements with focus on Performance and Security of the application.

Proactive Monitoring & Continuous Improvement:

• Evaluate fault system indicators to discover bugs prior to the end users; enrich test batteries with the necessary scenarios to cover those faults.

• Monitor test automation results and keep an up-to-date report of the daily execution of the test automation runs

• Contribute to and enforce best practices and quality assurance guidelines in the developed Product.

Reporting & Communication:

• Produce QA reports and share them with the appropriate audience.

• Develop a customer-oriented mindset and a culture of trust and transparency.

• Manage various stakeholders, ranging from business users to technical ones; adapt your communication style to the audience.

• Attend Agile (Scrum) ceremonies i.e. daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives and maintain status of activities up to date in Jira.

REQUIREMENTS

• B.Sc. or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ Years within a QA Engineer role within a software engineering function or organization.

• Have a deep understanding of using well-known software testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Zephyr) and software quality assurance principles.

• Strong communication skills and high attention to detail.

• Experience in delivering integration projects from initial study to production stabilization is a big plus.

• At ease writing scripts (Python, JavaScript).

• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and the use of SCM tools such as Gitlab.

• Good experience with MS Excel

• Acquaintance with technology concepts such as APIs, event-oriented architectures, Cloud hosting.

• Excellent in English both written and spoken; other languages are a plus (e.g. French).

• Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana, Datadog).

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and its ceremonies (Scrum, Kanban).

Other desired skills:

• Testing frameworks / tools: Zephyr, Playwright

• Monitoring: Datadog.

• Collaboration tools: Jira, Confluence.

• SCM: Gitlab.

• API: OpenAPI, REST, Postman.

• Web: HTTP, OAUTH2.

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