Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote (Poland)

Your responsibilities

Planning and coordinating testing activities throughout the entire software lifecycle
Developing, maintaining and executing test cases and ensuring they are integrated into the test automation suite
Creating and updating the testing strategy to align with business requirements
Automating testing processes and monitoring their efficiency
Independently managing testing tasks, timelines, and priorities to meet project deadlines
Building automated test frameworks and scripts from scratch, when necessary, to improve the overall testing strategy
Proactively identifying and addressing potential quality issues or risks without external guidance

Requirements

Experience:

Experience in a Senior QA role in large-scale projects
Proven ability to work independently, managing tasks and priorities with minimal supervision

Skills:

Hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing processes
In-depth knowledge and practical experience using Playwright/Python
Ability to report results and track progress in projects
Strong experience in API testing, including designing and executing automated API tests
High proficiency in time management and analytical thinking
Fluent in English (both spoken and written) for communication with international teams
Ability to mentor and share knowledge with junior team members
Ability to define and design test cases based on business and technical requirements
Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools (e.g. GitLab CI)
Flexibility and problem-solving skills, especially when establishing QA processes in projects where they may not exist

Nice to have

Familiarity with Agile/Scrum processes, including practical experience working in Agile teams
Experience in testing native mobile applications
ISTQB Advanced or Expert level certification
Basic knowledge of the German language

Our stack

Technologies: PHP 8.0+/ Symfony 6.1+ /Laravel 9.0+ , JS/TypeScript, Go
Databases: MySQL, MariaDB
Infrastructure: UNIX, Kubernetes
Queue: RabbitMQ
Tests: phpunit + codeception
CI/CD - Gitlab
Containerization

Engineering practices

OOP, TDD, DDD, SOLID, Clean Code
Pull requests / Code review (Gitlab)

Agile workflow

Scrum + elements of eXtreme Programming
PO + SM

Tools

Git + Gitlab
Xdebug
Jira, Confluence, AHA!, Slack, G Suite/Google workspace
Mostly PhpStorm but freedom to choose tools
Docker

Quality assurance

Test manager
Cross-functional teams - QAs on the board
Test automation / Python
Test case management tools
Testing mobile applications on real devices or a device farm

Benefits & Perks

Private healthcare
Cafeteria system
Referral Bonus
Startup atmosphere
No dress code
Flexible hours
Flexible working format - remote or hybrid
Modern office, Chillout zone, Standing desk, parking for bicycles, and a cloakroom with showers
Regular office lunches and integration meetings
Some international travels included

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About us

We are blau direkt
Infrastructure service provider for brokerage companies in the insurance industry.
Our business is to provide infrastructure services to insurance brokers. We manage
data, documents, claims, and most importantly: communication! blau direkt facilitates
the work of over 1,400 insurance brokers and distributors.

As a technology market leader, we offer brokerage companies in the insurance industry
the most modern infrastructure services and a tried and tested touchpoint management
system, which fundamentally sets us apart from other broker pools in Germany.
We are just opening a new R&D center, where we build engineering teams to support the
most crucial blau direkt products.

Insurance and finance are dull? Not with blau direkt!
We have made it our task to digitize and simplify the originally very paper-heavy and
time-consuming work of our partners with the help of our solutions. Together as a team,
we are driving new standards in the industry.

Talk to us and be a part of this experience from the beginning, which gives you the
unique opportunity to really make an impact on how we do things.

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We are looking forward to hearing from you!

We appreciate your interest in Blau Direkt Poland Sp. z o.o.. Please fill in the following short form. Should you have any difficulties in uploading your files, please contact us by mail at recruiting@blaudirekt.pl.