Strong Middle Manual QA Engineer

• Perform testing of software applications according to established test suites or test plans, ensuring thorough and accurate testing coverage.
• Develop and maintain test documentation, including test scenarios, test scripts, and other QA activities to support comprehensive testing of software applications.
• Conduct manual testing of software applications, following established testing methodologies and standards.
• Conduct Regression, Component testing, and End-to-End (E2E) testing throughout the project development phases by project requirements and timelines.
• Identify, document, and track defects found during the testing process, using appropriate tools and methods to ensure accurate and complete reporting.
• Collaborate closely with developers to troubleshoot and resolve defects, ensuring effective communication and timely resolution of issues.
• Collaborate with project team members to understand project requirements and identify testing needs to ensure complete testing coverage.
• Keep up to date with the latest testing methodologies, tools, and industry standards.

Must have:

Testing experience:

• API Integration Testing: Proficiency in API integration testing for backend services.
• Functional/system Integration Testing (FIT): Proficiency in functional integration testing.
• E2E: Participate in E2E validation process.
• Regression Testing: Experience with regression testing to ensure critical business processes are covered.
• Perform thorough smoke/sanity/regression testing during regular release activities.
• 3-5 years of QA experience (Ecommerce preferably).
• Define requirements while use case preparation. Conduct interviews with product owners, business analysts, and other stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements. Clarify and document any ambiguities or edge cases.
• Responsibility for Test Design and test case creation as part of Definition of Ready on user story level (creation test cases or checklists in Allure TestOps based on functional requirements).
• Responsibility for Test level definition (setting test layer in Allure test ops).

Test Level Testing:

• Design and maintain detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases  (based on activity/component),   per test level.
• Responsibility for maintaining existing cases.
• Responsible for validating failed test automation run result.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate quality testing activities.
• Review quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Compose and keep up-to-date traceability matrix of test cases.

Reporting:

• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly defect reports and track delivery of fix to end users.
• Responsible for reporting lower environments downtimes.
• Business support: Provide analysis for defects and change requests reported by end users.

Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills:

• Critical Analysis: Capability to analyze test conditions and cases with appropriate detail.
• Troubleshooting: Strong problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues in the production system.
• Attention to Detail: Ensuring all test results are properly documented recorded in the dedicated test tool.
• Actively participate in testing strategy improvements. Oversee the implementation and adherence to the testing strategy within the product team.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Ability to work with various teams to ensure proper integration testing during inter-dependencies.
• Cooperate closely with Automation QA Engineers in order to maintain and increase automation coverage of test cases.
• Effective Communication: communicate effectively and constantly withing the Cluster and related/depended Clusters, EDMs and other stakeholders.

Teamwork:

• Proficiency in communicating over a text-based medium (MS Teams, Jira/Confluence, Email) and ability to concisely document technical details.
• Good communication skills in English.

Methodology awareness & experience:

• Experience in working in SCRUM team.
• Good knowledge of SDLC, strong knowledge of working with git-based versioning systems and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines.

Architecture & technical knowledge:

• Understanding tokenizing/hasgingMD5 process flow.
• Understanding how molecular monolith architecture works.
• Knowledge of Multi-tenant architecture along with capability for tenant configuration for Market-brand.
• Good knowledge of software design patterns and service-oriented architecture.
• Good understanding of web development (JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).
• Good understanding of Axios library.
• Experience in building/integrating REST services and a very good understanding of the HTTP stack.

Soft Skills:

• Ready for being autonomous, proactive, and to take technical leadership.
• Ability to motivate resources and deliver solutions without a direct reporting line.

Leadership and Motivation:

• Cultural Awareness: Ability to communicate effectively across diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Innovation: Ability to think outside the box and innovate.
• Flexibility: Adaptability to changing business environments and priorities.
• High-stress tolerance: resistance to stress due to some high importance requests for retesting critical incidents.
• Multithreading(multitasking) & Prioritization: ability to manage a lot of cases at the same time and wise prioritization.

Toolkit:

• JIRA, ITSP, Postman, Allure, Multitenant Environment (Azure).

Nice to have:

Technical experience: experience in Playwright automation framework (TypeScript + Playwright)
Industry Knowledge: Good working knowledge of business and related processes in the FMCG industry.