Middle / Senior Manual QA Engineer

Are you an experienced manual QA Engineer who wants to participate in developing a friendly and trusted platform based on modern technologies and innovations? Are you willing to join a quickly growing, product-oriented company while working remotely from home? Then welcome to Siren Group! By joining Siren, you become a part of an innovative team with an ethical approach to business relations.

This role is full-time and offers home working flexibility.

Siren Group is a digital marketing company based in Switzerland with remote staff across the world. We specialize in generating consistent new business opportunities for medium- to large-size companies, including Fortune 1000s. Our latest venture is HomeBuddy.com, an online home improvement marketplace in the U.S. HomeBuddy offers a great opportunity to work on an interesting, challenging, and constantly evolving project. 

Being already a very successful firm with stable double-digit annual revenue increases, we are aiming for even more explosive growth! Our company’s success is delivered by a smart, self-starting, and entrepreneurial team which we are actively growing. 

Siren offers a remote and flexible work environment, competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and the opportunity to work on a professional team and grow in your career. 

We are searching for an experienced manual QA Engineer to join our fast growing and friendly HomeBuddy team.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Independent execution of functional, regression, integration, and other types of testing necessary to ensure quality on the project.
• Participating in the preparation of test artifacts: test cases, checklists, test scripts, test plans, and testing reports, bug reports.
• To participate in filling releases with tasks, as well as to participate in task estimation.
• Collaboration with colleagues from adjacent departments.
• Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain;
• Come up with a testing strategy for every release, including exploratory testing, to give us confidence that no major regressions are introduced & the changes are working as expected.

About You:

• 3+ years of experience in web services and/or mobile applications testing;
• Knowledge of basic terms, concepts, and types of testing;
• Understanding of the software development process, the role of testing;
• Understanding of HTML + CSS;
• Understanding REST API;
• Good knowledge of SQL;
• Excellent knowledge of the software development lifecycle;
• Excellent understanding of theory (fundamentals, methods, and types of testing) and the ability to apply them in practice;
• Experience working in an Agile environment (understand the difference between scrum/kanban);
• Ability to use development tools in a browser;
• Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills;
• Good written and verbal communication skills;
• Love working in a collaborative environment with a strong focus on teamwork, innovation, and open-mindedness;
• Experience in creating Test Reports, Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Surveys, Acceptance Sheets, and Bug Reports.

A good level of English (especially written), Intermediate +. Fluent Russian.

Nice to have:

• Experience in writing autotests for REST API;
• Experience in automation testing using cloud services;
• In-depth understanding of software development process and life cycle, knowledge of software testing principles;

What We Offer:

• We have different perks and benefits, but we also can offer you a supportive work environment powered by a fantastic team!
• Competitive compensation according to your skills, experience, and professional accomplishments, including a company bonus;
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays;
• 100% remote work, allowing working and traveling;
• Flexible work hours, when it is convenient to plan your working and personal time;
• Work in one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing industries;
• Ambitious and challenging tasks with a high degree of responsibility and independence;
• Multicultural environment;
• Supportive, friendly, and professional team, which you can always rely on;
• An allowance program for compensation of expenses for wellness and the home office;
• Paid training (school, events, conferences).

If this sounds like you, we should talk!