Test and verify complex web applications and middleware systems by following best practices, using manual tests, and creating and maintaining test plans, test cases, test notes, and appropriate documentation
Participate in the analysis of product requirements and evaluate the information required for testing by meeting and discussing requirements with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders, as well as collecting relevant information from other sources
Participate in planning the delivery pipeline by estimating time required for testing, analyzing dependencies between different product elements, and improving visibility for other team members and teams
Take an active role in root cause analysis and troubleshooting of misbehaving applications by analyzing run-time functional and performance metrics, tracking, testing, and reporting on bugs and bug fixes
Available for collaboration with the immediate team and the direct line manager during agreed working hours
Contribute to both manual and automation testing activities as needed, gaining hands-on experience with automation frameworks and tools

Willingness to work as part of a distributed team
4+ years of experience testing commercial software products
4+ years of experience designing test cases and end-to-end integration testing
Excellent understanding of SDLC QA processes – planning, cases, bug tracking
Experience with distributed applications (SOA / Broker / Client-Server patterns, RESTful APIs)
Experience with commercial relational and non-relational databases
Familiarity with Jenkins or another CI/CD framework
Very good written and spoken English (we’re a multinational team)
Critical thinker with problem-solving skills
Experience with automation testing using JavaScript
Experience working in a distributed remote-first multinational team
Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence
Experience in an Agile work environment (SCRUM, Kanban, Scrumban)
Experience with containerization (Docker + Kubernetes or others)
Experience with Git or another DVCS
Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Aerospike
Experience working with logs and log analysis tools, including Kibana

Senior QA Engineer

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