Middle QA Engineer

About your key responsibilities and impact:

• Defining test cases, working with requirements, providing testing, test proofs, test summary reports, and test plans when required;
• Testing web and native applications across the online platform, performing API functional testing;
• Creating and executing test cases/checklists and other types of test documentation;
• Performing functional, regression, and exploratory testing;
• Following QA procedures and providing ideas for its improvement;
• Providing estimates and reporting obstacles or blockers as soon as possible (preferably proactive reporting at the task decomposition stage);
• Coordinating with other team members to ensure smooth project execution;
• Communicating with the QA team, QA Lead, PM, Products, and Developers to understand requirements and provide updates on project status;
• Fostering collaboration and open communication within the team, promoting knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration;
• Staying updated with the latest best practices in the QA ecosystem;
• Implementing and encouraging the adoption of industry best practices and tools.

Essential professional experience:

• 3+ years of experience in quality assurance, particularly in backend testing;
• Strong knowledge of API testing and tools such as Postman or similar;
• Good understanding of HTTP protocol and client-server architecture;
• Experience in creating test artifacts (manuals, checklists, test cases);
• Experience with Jira and TestRail systems (or similar);
• Spoken and written Ukrainian and English (Upper-Intermediate level or above).

Desirable skills and personal features:

• Experience in testing systems with the microservices architecture;
• Experience in investigating business incidents;
• Gathering and analyzing logs (e.g. Kibana);
• Experience with database management systems (DBMS) such as MySQL, PostgreSQL.