Job description

This is a remote position.

For an international organization in Europa, we are urgently looking for a REMOTE QA Engineer with ISTQB Foundation certification or similar.

Candidates need to be willing to work European office hours and need to be fluent in English. All positions are long-term. This position is open for contractors and employees.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Acts as a QA focal point to development teams when communicating with Quality Assurance Team members;
Provides support for QA and related services and help to expand and improve the effectiveness of these services;
Creates, executes, automates, and manages test cases and test plans for existing and developed systems;
Supports software development process and implementation of new software releases by testing computer application systems and programs, using team established standards for IT technologies and tools;
Participates in the specification, design, automation and support of computer application systems from a quality assurance perspective;
Drafts technical documentation for deployed computer application systems in the form of test cases and user stories;
Maintains test and functional specifications for computer application systems, programs and procedures developed and/or modified;
Drafts correspondence, communications and prepares team contributions for a variety of periodic reports;
Keeps abreast of developments in the field of quality assurance and proposes new acquisitions as appropriate;
Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

Profile:

Bachelor or Master degree;
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation certification or similar certification is required. Any relevant additional QA certifications are desirable;
+3 years of providing software quality assurance for medium-large sized development teams is required;
+3 years of experience in developing Test Automation Frameworks or designing automated testing suites is required;
+3 years of experience with regular release testing and clearance using Agile development approaches such as SCRUM is required;
+3 years of experience with managing test code and definitions using Software Configuration Management and integrating testing and clearance processes with build tools such as Azure DevOps Services is required.
+1 year of git source control including branching and processing of pull requests is required;
+3 years of experience with developing UI test automation with Selenium using C#/.NET is required;
+3 years in servicing geo/time zone distributed dev teams, QA team members, and clients is required;
Daily, hands-on practical experience with writing test cases using Gherkin syntax is desirable;
Daily, hands-on practical experience with testing software for Prince2 based projects is desirable;
Experience in testing applications hosted in Microsoft Azure Cloud Services is desirable;
Fluent in English;