Quality Assurance Automation Lead

About us:

Data Science UA is a service company with strong data science and AI expertise. Our journey began in 2016 with the organization of the first Data Science UA conference, setting the foundation for our growth. Over the past 9 years, we have diligently fostered the largest Data Science Community in Eastern Europe.

About the client:

Our client is a DeFi prime brokerage protocol for institutional borrowers and lenders to interact in a zero-trust environment.

About the role:

We are looking for a professional Senior/Team Lead Automation QA Engineer, who will join the team. You will take part in various projects, hunt bugs, identify issues, report it and implement software testing processes. Also, you will collaborate with the product team and engineers and will have ownership of quality through manual and automated testing.

Requirements:

- Solid knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes and test design techniques.

- Solid understanding of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

- Experience with test management tools such as Jira, TestRail, or Quality Center.

- Knowledge of automation testing tools and frameworks, such as Selenium/Selenide, Playwright, Cypress.

- Experience with Playwright using TypeScript.

- Familiarity with Agile and/or DevOps practices.

- Solid understanding of software failures.

- Proactive attitude towards identifying areas for improvement and implementing innovative solutions.

- Solid understanding of SQL and databases.

Nice to have:

- Experience with public or private blockchain technologies, wallet technology.

- Experience with testing & acceptance of event driven cloud platform.

- Experience with traditional (TradeFi) or decentralized finance (DeFi).

Responsibilities:

- Review and analyze requirements, specifications, and technical design documents, providing timely feedback.

- Define and enforce QA standards, methodologies, and best practices across the organization.

- Prioritize and plan testing activities.

- Analyze functional & non-functional requirements, develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.

- Design, develop, and execute manual and automated tests as well as provide leadership and guidance to the QA team.

- Lead the planning and execution of testing activities for multiple microservices simultaneously.

- Maintain existing test automation, develop new one and the test documentation.

- Release acceptance, stress-testing, performance analysis, fuzzing & mutation test strategy.

- Monitor and analyze test automation results and provide recommendations for improvements.

- Communicate with end users or assistance support.

- Ability to iterate quickly and produce business value.