Quality Assurance Team Lead

Playwing is looking for a Quality Assurance Team Lead who will successfully manage a functional

QA team with a strong sense of quality ownership.

Responsibilities:

- Define and monitor testing procedures and practices: test management, defect management and tracking management.

- Track and provide QA statuses to stakeholders.

- Review and present different types of QA deliverables including reports.

- Provide insights about production quality and prepare improvement plans to improve quality for low-quality areas.

- Be an influencer to a matrix-managed team's members and managers, providing the highest quality standards and approaches.

- Participate in the interviews of new team members, guide the onboarding process.

- Participate in the performance review process.

- Conduct meetings with subordinate team members.

- Ensure QA personnel are prioritizing and tracking defects and issues correctly and recommend corrective action where required.

- Implement testing policies, procedures and standards across company's products.

- Adapt the testing strategy to the project's expansion.

- Planning and estimating the testing activities.

- Tasks prioritization.

- Coordinate with various teams for specific tests.

- Supervise and coordinate over the whole test process cycle.

- Prepare Test Summary Reports and Release Notes.

- Manage a team of engineers and evaluate their performance, develop and coach team.

- Collaborating with the UpWork freelancers that are providing the services required for the testing purpose.

Qualifications:

- Previous managerial experience as a team leader.

- Excellent negotiation, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills.

- Knowledge of test case management tools (Testrail, TM4J, etc).

- In depth understanding of formal test and development processes.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong project and time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

- Enthusiastic, positive, team oriented, and organized.

• Ability to work under tight schedules and high-stress environment.

- Understanding of agile-based SDLCs (Scrum/Kanban).

- Experience with API Contract verification using tools such as Swagger or REST Docs.

- Experience with RESTful API web service execution and validation using tools such as Postman or SOAP.

- Experience in working with databases (NoSQL is an advantage).

- Strong leadership skills.

- A sense of humour doesn't hurt either =)

- Analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Ability to establish QA processes from scratch with further monitoring and control, including creation and maintenance of supportive artifacts, procedures, and metrics.

We offer:

- Professional development opportunities.

- Free English classes.

- Paid sick leave and vacation.

- Modern office located in the center of the city.

- Free morning schedule.

- Fruit, milk, biscuits and sweets during the day.

- Recreation room with Xbox and TV.

- Shower room and bicycle parking.

- Own gym.