Middle Manual QA Engineer

Are you ready to take on the challenge?

Django Stars is looking for experienced Middle Manual QA Engineer.

Requirements:

• Must have: 1.5+ year experience in testing of WEB-based applications;
• Practical knowledge of SDLC/ STLC (include deep understanding of Agile methodologies);
• Experience in Smoke, Sanity, System, Functional, Regression, Integration testing;
• Must have: Experience in using Black-Box test design techniques;
• Must have: Experience with web services and API testing (REST);
• Experience in Quality Artifacts creation/maintaining — Checklists, Test Cases, Bug Reports, RTM in accordance with IEEE 829-1998;
• Good spoken and written English (at least Intermediate English written and verbal communication skills);
• Pro-activeness, self-organization, ability to work independently with minimum supervision;
• Analytical and creative problem-solving skills;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced Agile environment in a tight collaboration with a development team;
• Ability to communicate effectively in a team-oriented environment, readiness to learn through communication with more experienced engineers;

Knowledge of tools:

• Web-Dev tools;
• JIRA or any other issue tracking tools;
• Google Apps (Docs, and spreadsheet) and Confluence — collaboration software;
• Postman or any other tools for testing web-services and APIs;
• TestRail or any other Test management tools;
• Git or any other version control tools.
  

Would be a plus :

• Selenium Webdriver or any other automation testing software;
• JMeter;
• Jenkins or another Continuous Integration application.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the testing of one or more product features or sub-systems;
• Spend most of the time developing test code and performing testing in a fast-paced environment using the Scrum framework;
• Use investigative and analytical skills to find defects, whilst continuing to complete tasks;
• Review requirements specifications;
• Work with Product team to write User Acceptance Criteria for each story;
• Collaborate with developers as needed to understand requirements and technical implications; to resolve problems and identify the root cause of product defects;
• Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the development process;
• Plan and estimate test effort, including the creation, maintenance, and review of test related documentation;
• Estimate, prioritize, and plan testing activities;
• Maintain QA plans/planning including timelines, assumptions, and risks.