Senior QA Engineer

Your opportunity and activities you’ll be involved in with Optiva:

• Responsible for the quality of the products, and making it function in public and private cloud environments
• Responsible for troubleshooting and reproducing technical problems, documenting and following them until full resolution
• Taking part in both internal/customer projects and operations 
• Responsible for analyzing software, tools, and scripts to automate testing, quality control and monitoring on Preproduction system
• Participating in functional, non-functional and exploratory testing across various project lines
• Collaboration with cloud engineers in understanding new cloud technologies and investigating the way to improve quality of the products based on their compatibility
• Collaboration in the software development lifecycle to develop detailed test coverage including test plans and test cases, bugs and technical issues definitions
• Navigate the path of functional requirements through quality gates to Production deployments
• Proactively look for ways to create efficient testing approaches on short and long term testing cycles
• Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives assigned by management
• Create/maintain documentation for test and operational procedures
• Document and perform system pre-checks, application tests, and define additional testing requirements based on customer needs
• Participate in an on-call rotation in a distributed Worldwide team

What you'll need to hop on board and hit the ground running:

• 5+ years of related experience in Quality Assurance/Quality Control
• 5+ years of technical testing experience in complex high-pressure environments
• Bachelor's Degree or Master's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Technology Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Strong experience with the Agile software development methodology and collaboration with internal teams to deliver software and configuration artifacts
• Understanding of quality control principles and quality assurance definitions of done in projects
• Strong background in test automation and automated testing tools
• GitHub/Jenkins/Terraform experience
• Experience with Docker or similar container solution
• Solid understanding of Development lifecycle and QA part in it - from requirements to post-delivery support

It would be much easier for you if you have:

• Experience in testing distributed, service oriented applications
• Experience with Java build tools including Gradle
• 1+ Telco experience (5G, IOT, AI, BigData, ML)
• Experience in testing Linux-based Server-related applications

And, of course, you have a full-steam ahead desire for:

• Have a software-centric mindset
• Be comfortable with coding
• Relish change and frequent releases
• Don’t fear complexity and scale
• Understand the full software stack
• View problems as an opportunity to improve
• Embrace automation over manual effort
• Translate the technical into business language
• See challenges from a business perspective
• Be prepared to move on with tasks

Conditions:

• Competitive salary
• Works on complex and interesting IT project
• Comfortable office
• Additional medical insurance
• Flexible start of the working day
• English courses
• Participation in specialized events (conferences, seminars, trainings) at the expense of the company
• Professional and career growth