QA Team Lead
vakansiya — 2024

Key accountabilities:

• Manage execution of assigned QA activities, including software engineering quality assurance and testing.
• Ensure QA personnel are prioritizing and tracking defects and issues correctly and recommend corrective action where required.
• Create and implement test plans that span a product’s lifecycle, cover art, design, and engineering.
• Implement testing policies, procedures and standards across specific products.
• Manage QA personnel including full-time and temporary employees as well as testers from third party vendors.
• Adapt the testing strategy to the project’s expansion.
• Collaborate with a variety of internal and external users to acquire and exchange information on QA issues, processes, and best practices.
• Assess risks early in the production pipeline and deliver reports and recommendations on how to fix the situation to the development team
• Participate in QA leadership meetings to help set company-wide QA objectives and processes in collaboration with the other Team Leads and the Software Development Department Director.
• Creating and maintaining a professional culture within the team, where individuals take ownership and are fastidious and proud of delivering excellence and quality;
• To devise a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team – to implement improvements to our products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team;
• To plan for team growth considering the blend/level of skills required within team;
• To assist in resourcing decisions;
• To review project progress and overview of the performance of all individuals in team;
• To proactively drive innovation with new ideas and options made available by new technologies;
• To make sure that all team members have the latest in-depth knowledge of all onsite and relevant offsite aspects at the heart of all decisions on projects or enhancements that they make;
• To make sure that all training and support that team members require is delivered internally or externally;
• To assist in critical support issues where your experience is required to ascertain the issue quickly and to find the more appropriate resolution;
• To take control over critical support instances and putting into place the correct escalation and process to manage and resolve issue as soon as possible;
• To keep up to date with the latest QA technologies and methodologies;
• To drive consistent standards and approaches throughout the team;

Experience & Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related area andor 5+ years in the field or in a related area;
• 3+ years hands-on experience in software development;
• 2+ years of leadership experience;
• A strong sense of responsibility and initiative;
• Strong customer oriented approach with a delivery bias;
• Experience of working with 3rd party service providers;
• Experience in managing team of professionals.

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong leadership skills to manage professional staff, assigning, organizing tasks, and overseeing implementation;
• Fluent in the Azeri, Russian and English language, oral and written, is essential; other languages are an advantage;
• Good relationship building and communication skills;
• Expert skills in QA engineering;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Detail oriented;
• Understanding the business side as well as the technical, and being able to analyse and express how these two worlds interact;
• Ability to allocate resource/effort appropriately;
• Ability to travel if needed.

E-mail: hr@eurodesign.az