QA Lead

**Technical Skills:** - Strong knowledge of test design techniques: equivalence classes, boundary value analysis, etc. - Clear understanding of bug lifecycle and defect management process - Experience in different testing types: functional, integration, regression, smoke, acceptance - Skilled in writing test cases, checklists, and test plans - Experience with requirement analysis (Confluence, Figma, etc.) - Solid experience in manual API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger - Understanding of event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka or message queues) and API contract testing - Ability to validate data flows between services and verify synchronization consistency - Familiarity with: - Test case management tools (TestRail, Zephyr, Xray) - Issue trackers (e.g. Jira) - Documentation tools (Confluence, Google Docs) - Experience analyzing database schemas and writing SQL queries for validation of transactional data - Knowledge of permissions, localization, and configuration-driven features testing - Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and audit tools (e.g. Kibana, Grafana, ELK) - Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) **Leadership & Ownership:** - Able to define and own QA scope and test strategy for projects - Can estimate testing efforts and manage QA team capacity - Accountable for product quality from requirements to release - Active participation in grooming, planning, and retrospectives - Identifies quality risks and drives process improvements - Experience with incident analysis or production bug triage - Experience decomposing unclear requirements and clarifying acceptance criteria - Skill in prioritizing test coverage by criticality - Experience leading distributed QA teams across multiple domains or services - Collaboration experience with analysts and technical writers to maintain up-to-date documentation **Optional but Strong Plus:** - Experience testing gaming or transactional systems (sessions, jackpots, balances, etc.) - Understanding of audit trails and transactional integrity validation - Experience testing caching, performance, and load scenarios for API-based systems - Background in gaming or social casino products - 5+ years of experience in software testing, including 1–2 years in a QA lead or senior role - Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, testing types, and best practices - Experience managing QA teams and mentoring manual testers - Ability to plan and execute test strategies for complex systems - Experience working with products built on microservice or distributed architectures - Good communication skills; able to work with developers, PMs, designers, and other stakeholders - Intermediate or higher level of English (B1+) - 25 vacation days and 5 family days yearly - Flexible start to the workday - Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist - Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events - Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities - Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support