MENU is looking for a highly motivated Chief QA to define the QA strategy and approach for all the company’s products and be responsible for ensuring product quality.
Chief QA is responsible for ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking. Chief QA will oversee the delivery and maintenance of automated scenarios and frameworks based on industry best practices.
Chief QA should have great strategic and planning skills in order to provide expertise throughout the entire product development life cycle with a strong sense of quality ownership making sure that quality is baked in from the start.
Type of contract: Permanent
The key responsibilities of the Chief QA include:
- Defining QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects
- Provide technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance
- Be accountable for the test automation projects, mentor, and provide technical leadership to the QA automation developers
- Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all QA Engineers
- Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing
- Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined
- Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation
- Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards
- Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement
- Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort
- Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA Engineers
- Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework
- Driving and improving the QA Engineers in areas of automated testing and agile testing
- Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques across the teams
- Work with QA Engineers and Head of Development to develop and execute QA strategies to meet and exceed company quality goals
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in the Software Quality Assurance position
- Experience with API testing (Postman, Runscope or similar)
- Automation experience using Runscope / Appium is a plus
- Experience in automating tests (mobile UI and/or API)
- Experience and knowledge of testing methodologies (load, stress, acceptance, regression, localization, black box/white box, security, performance, usability, accessibility, smoke)
- Understanding the life cycle of the software and all phases of the QA process
- Knowing the bug/issue tracking tool (preferably JIRA)
- Strong technical leadership skills with experience in implementing and shaping the company’s QA processes and strategies
- Strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, ideally in a continuous delivery environment
- Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risked Based Testing
- Experience in working in Agile environment and Scrum methodologies
- Fluent in English
Our offer:
- Opportunity to participate in creating a global industry-changing product
- Great international team and informal start-up atmosphere
- Strong company culture and team spirit
- Opportunity to learn and improve technical and soft skills
- Possibilities for career development as the company grows
- 25 vacation days
- Competitive salary
- Equity incentives
- Home office
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.