Grid Dynamics seeks a great QA team leader or Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with strong technical expertise, who is interested in joining our growing project, responsible for quality of a highly scalable and distributed platform for one of the largest world-leading retailers.
As a key member of this team, you will be working in a collaboration with a team of worldwide recognized experts. This is an excellent opportunity to become a key contributor to the project, while creating the next generation of network-centric distributed and scalable architectures.
We work with bleeding-edge technologies, including J2EE, in-memory data grids such as Oracle Coherence, NoSQL databases such as Apache Cassandra, automated testing tools such as Fitnesse, Selenium WebDriver, built in-house Jagger performance measurement tool, Continuous Integration and Delivery, etc.
Key Responsibilities:
- Guide development teams, providing High Level Architecture, doing design reviews, answering technical questions
- Provide quality assurance oversight and management of other consultants/developers on the project configuring and deploying the design
- Design and implement QA infrastructure, develop new innovative approaches to testing of complex systems
- Establish Standards, policies and procedures within the application architecture domain
- Collaborate with globally distributed team of engineers, architects and analysts (San Francisco, Saint-Petersburg, Kharkov)
- Review and analyze functional requirements, identify and correct gaps and inconsistencies
- Analyze test results and perform root cause analysis
- Work in agile software development process (Scrum, two-week iterations, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Planning Games, Daily Stand-Up)
- Lead and mentor junior QA engineers
Preferred Skills:
- 10 years of overall experience
- Prefer 5+ years of eCommerce experience
- 5 years in automated testing: Fitnesse, JBehave, SOAP UI, Selenium, Cucumber
- Experience with overall application architecture needs, hardware and software components
- Previous Consulting experience
- Master Degree
- Solid understanding of REST architecture style and its application to well performing web sites for global usage
- Comfortable with basic usage and administration of Unix-based OS (bash / ssh / ps / grep etc…)
- Up to speed with modern software engineering: version control systems, issue tracking, build-systems (ant, maven2, etc), continuous integration, wiki, etc
- Experience in Agile environment.
- Good understanding of databases, working knowledge of SQL
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary
- Work on bleeding-edge projects in a team of experienced and motivated developers and QA engineers
- Flexible working hours
- Business trips to San Francisco/Bay Area
- Health insurance, benefit package, company-sponsored conferences, vacations
- Well-equipped office located in the center of the city
