Manual QA Engineer

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‍We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to work with our technology team. We are seeking a candidate who is capable of leading all aspects of testing activities on a dynamic team with complex systems while supporting multiple products in ambiguity. 

A candidate will test the backend part of our application. It consists of REST API services on top of SQL DB instances. The Total number of API endpoints is not so big, but they are quite complicated. Under the hood you can find multiple pre-processing algorithms, data transformation and data clearance stages. In other words - we have numerous test conditions for each endpoint and candidate will have to figure out all business scenarios, dev implementation and data schema features to be capable of properly performing testing activities. 

All team members are mature so we have a limited amount of documentation. All required information is taken from source code and communication with colleagues. Hence, candidate should be proactive, good at interpersonal communication with team members and be ready to dig into the code to find the required information about the system. Finally, candidate will have to find/tune DB data to pass it as a test data per each test case so capability to write joins "on a fly" is a must. A perfect candidate should have a minimum of 6-8 years of experience in software testing and be prepared for a significant amount of manual testing, with opportunities to automate those tests as needed.

Responsibilities: 

• Creating and executing functional black box tests
  
• Support production incidents as a QA representative
  
• Developing smoke and regression test suites
  
• Testing APIs, SQL reports, and other technologies that don’t have a UI
  

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years in software testing with focus on testing complex systems
  
• Experience working with QA automation tools and frameworks
  
• Hands-on experience with Postman either in commercial or personal projects.
  
• Profound knowledge and experience in API testing. Be fluent in discussing HTTP protocol documentation
  
• Knowledge of SQL/ experience of Database testing - creating complex queries on a fly 
  
• Experience working in a software development environment
  
• Overall technical acumen, understanding of engineering specifics of integrations, development technology
  

Nice to haves: 
These would be nice but are definitely not necessary.  Don't worry if any of the following applies to you.

• Experience working with high transaction / high throughput business systems
  
• Experience working in the Healthcare Industry
  
• Experience working in distributed teams
  

Benefits

• We are building hyper-growth careers in Cloud Native, AI/ML-centric projects, using the best Silicon Valley practices, anywhere in the world.
• Remote anywhere
• Coworking space financial coverage
• Flexible working hours
• B2B with multiple benefits 
• Paid days off annually: 20 days leave, 12 days holidays, 10 days sick leave
• Workspace program: 2500$ for work equipment of your choice.
• English language lessons on all levels
• Performance financial incentives for the people who demonstrate interest in the company’s development.
• Paid courses and certifications: example AWS, CKA, ML certifications
• Participation at international conferences: like CNCF Summits, Kubecon, others