Senior QA Automation Engineer

at  Krusche Company GmbH

We are recruiting a senior QA automation engineer for a new Scrum team that will complement an existing K&C Scrum team working on a core project of the world’s biggest events company!
Ideally, you will also have manual testing experience of complex systems and software to analyse, review, verify, validate and test, improve complex specifications, acceptance criteria, features, technical tasks. Experience in Test Automation with JS/TS-based frameworks will be a big plus.
A fantastic opportunity to join the international K&C family in a remote role and gain experience with a blue chip member of the FTSE 100 and global sector leader!

Your profile

• Proactive: You want to solve problems, desire to experiment with new technologies but pragmatic in implementation and weigh up options to come up with a plan to move forward.
• Experienced: We want you to be a person with good knowledge in related domains and willing to keep learning and improving with us to deliver highest quality products.
• Quick learner: Your abilities include quick and proficient understanding, absorbing, and synthesizing of new information.
• Collaborative: Your communication skills are great. You work well with team and stakeholders and care for results.
• Passionate: You have passion for testing software and interest in test automation along with improving quality and constantly striving to make it all more consistent, efficient, and reliable.
• Self-driving: You understand project and quality goals, seek opportunities for improvement and drive yourself and others to bigger achievements.

Core responsibilities

• Analyse, review, verify, validate and test complex specifications, acceptance criteria, features, technical tasks
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Actively participate in all phases of testing in SDLC during the sprints and in all Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, plannings, refinements, retros) and QA team related meetings
• Assist in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting methods are effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated
• Perform manual functional/non-functional, regression, performance, acceptance testing where needed
• Suggest solutions to identified product or process problems
• Communicating with the QA Manager, PO and Dev Leads to triage the issues raised by you and QA team to prioritize the fixes
• Follow and adhere to the best-practices of software test engineering, Agile methodology, QA practices and processes in the organization
• Design and implement automated testing scripts using tools such as Puppeteer, Playwright, WD.io or other industry-standard tools (with mentoring if needed)
• Monitor and analyze system performance to identify areas for improvement and provide recommendations to developers
• Collaborate with other QA engineers to develop and maintain a library of test scripts and test cases

Requirements

• 6+ years in QA positions related to web applications testing
• Experience testing the full stack (FE/BE/Middleware), APIs and integrations with 3rd party services
• Ability to adapt quickly to a complex environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with developers and stakeholders
• Understanding of and familiarity with multi service architecture
• Experience working with GitHub, Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, etc.), TestRail
• Full understanding of SDLC and QA concepts and methodologies and best practices
• Attention to detail and following issues to resolution
• Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks and manage time effectively
• Self-motivation and knowing when to seek guidance; detail-orientation is a must
• Understanding of REST principles
• Planning and organization skills and experience
• Experience collaborating and working with multiple teams
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving mindset
• Ability to think outside the box and openness to learn new and improve existing skills
• English – proficient

Will be a plus

• Experience in Jenkins
• Experience in JavaScript
• Experience in TypeScript
• Experience in React
• Experience in Node.js

The project’s core (but not limited to) tech stack

• NodeJS
• ReactJS
• JavaScript and TypeScript
• Puppeteer and Jest
• REST APIs
• Github
• Jenkins
• TestRail
• Docker
• AWS (Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, Lambdas etc

Why join the K&C team and this project?

• German IT company with HQ in Munich
• 23 years history
• Competitive compensation;
• Talented team without hierarchies
• 20 workdays of vacation per year, 15 days of paid sick leave;
• Fulltime remote work anywhere within the EU or Azerbaijan is possible; as is being based in one of our offices in Krakow or Sofia if you prefer an office environment or hybrid
• Flexible working schedule

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!
If you have any questions you would like to ask or if there is any additional information you would like to receive, please feel free to get in touch via either career@kruschecompany.com or the contact form at the bottom of this page.
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Working with K&C
K&C has a win-win organisational culture –
we know we only succeed when our team members do too!
K&C is an international software development company with 100+ experts split between our offices in Munich (HQ) Kyiv, Krakow, Sofia, Baku and Sulaimaniya. We provide consulting and direct services for the complex IT-Projects of major European clients such as Commerzbank, Nestle, Bosch, Raiffeisen, METRO, DER Touristik, Lufthansa and others.
At K&C we work with different projects — websites, portals, platforms, mobile (iOS, Android), intranet-systems. The combination of our expertise in cutting-edge technologies, 15 years’ collaborative experience with leading European clients, and a friendly and productive work environment has enabled us to turn traditional IT outsourcing into a reliable and competitive product.
Remote work
You can also work from our offices in Krakow, Munich, Sofia or Baku
Flexible working schedule possible
International company with offices in 5 countries and fully remote colleagues in several more.
20 workdays of vacation per year, 15 days of paid sick leave
Medical insurance
Professional and friendly team that is eager to expand and develop
Your personality is important - you can be you!

• Analyse, review, verify, validate and test complex specifications, acceptance criteria, features, technical tasks
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Actively participate in all phases of testing in SDLC during the sprints and in all Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, plannings, refinements, retros) and QA team related meetings
• Assist in ongoing process improvement efforts to ensure test planning, execution, and reporting methods are effective, efficient, standardized, coordinated, and integrated
• Perform manual functional/non-functional, regression, performance, acceptance testing where needed
• Suggest solutions to identified product or process problems
• Communicating with the QA Manager, PO and Dev Leads to triage the issues raised by you and QA team to prioritize the fixes
• Follow and adhere to the best-practices of software test engineering, Agile methodology, QA practices and processes in the organization
• Design and implement automated testing scripts using tools such as Puppeteer, Playwright, WD.io or other industry-standard tools (with mentoring if needed)
• Monitor and analyze system performance to identify areas for improvement and provide recommendations to developers
• Collaborate with other QA engineers to develop and maintain a library of test scripts and test case