QA Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the QA strategy, processes, and best practices across various projects.

• Lead, mentor, and provide support to QA engineers, fostering their professional growth and performance.

• Design and manage test plans, test cases, and both manual and automated test execution.

• Ensure extensive coverage across functional, integration, regression, and performance testing.

• Establish and uphold automated testing frameworks and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, stakeholders, designers, system analysts, and business analysts to clarify requirements, ensure testability, and facilitate cohesive development.

• Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities for quality process enhancements and suggest appropriate solutions.

• Monitor and report on quality metrics, defects, and the progress of testing activities.

• Ensure timely detection, reporting, tracking, and root-cause analysis of defects.

• Drive the continuous improvement of QA practices, tools, and methodologies.

• Coordinate the release validation and sign-off processes.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of test processes, cases, and results.

• Promote a quality-first mindset throughout the development lifecycle.

• Perform other duties pertinent to the role.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Proficient in English, both written and spoken.

• Extensive experience in software testing, both manual and automated.

• Proven track record in leading QA teams and managing testing processes.

• In-depth understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Agile methodologies.

• Experience with test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, and Allure TestOps.

• Familiarity with automation frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar.

• Knowledge of API testing tools such as Postman and RestAssured.

• Experience using performance and load testing tools such as JMeter and k6.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience with SQL/No-SQL databases for validation and data testing.

• Expertise in automated testing tools and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with financial trading systems is a significant advantage.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools and quality metrics; knowledge of Grafana and Prometheus is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours (09:00–18:00, Monday to Friday).

• A friendly and enjoyable working environment.

• Competitive compensation package.