SENIOR SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER (m/f/d)    

We are looking for a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team in  Prishtina. 

Quipu is the dedicated IT company of the ProCredit group and provides comprehensive end-to end solutions for all ProCredit institutions, as well as for other banks and financial institutions This includes everything from electronic payment services to software systems, hybrid cloud hosting, and a host of other operations. 

A 100% subsidiary of ProCredit Holding, Quipu was established in March 2004 and is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Quipu plays a central role within the ProCredit group, providing a comprehensive range of support services that enable the banks to become competitive and efficient. 

General description of the position 

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Quipu, you will assume a leadership role, alongside with  ensuring the delivery of high-quality software products to our banks and customers. In addition to  applying both manual and automated testing methodologies, your responsibilities will extend to  mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, leading QA activities within the development team, and  actively participating in continuous improvement initiatives by being proactive and data-driven.  The successful candidate will demonstrate forceful communication skills, leadership skills,  attention to details, and effective collaboration within Agile activities.

What your key responsibilities will be: 

• Mentor and guide junior and Mid-level QA Engineers in the team. 
• Review and validate requirements and technical specifications. 
• Develop test cases based on requirements and implement test plans to assure that software meets project specifications and design. 
• Perform exploratory and destructive testing with a focus on identifying and documenting defects. 
• Lead bug management, regression testing, and provide insightful metrics. • Review defects and test logs to identify root causes and suggest solutions for improving development, testing, and documentation. 
• Proactively provide improvements in the test automation frameworks structure and QA  processes. 
• Manage testing efforts across many varied projects and tasks under tight deadlines. • Build test frameworks for our web and mobile banking applications both manually and automatically using different automation tools. 
• Own the CI/CD tests integration and design. 
• Perform advanced manual and automated testing of APIs, Data Bases and backend services for system reliability. 
• Document test data and results and communicate them properly to the internal and external stakeholders. 
• Work closely with the product and engineering managers to achieve the quality goals for  development teams. 
• Understand product lifecycle concepts and participate in the test planning process. 

Skills and experience we expect from you:  

• 5+ years proven work experience in Quality Assurance in a fast-paced environment. • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical and  Electronic engineering, or an equivalent field. 
• Strong Experience in technical design processes, flowcharting techniques, and code compliance. 
• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc. • Strong experience designing and building test automation frameworks for both Web and  Mobile applications using tools such as Selenium, Playwrite, Appium.
• Strong experience in APIs and DB testing for backend applications. 
• Knowledge in using test coverage, monitoring, and logging tools, as well as CI/CD  platforms. 
• Experience in ticket and bug tracking systems such as JIRA and Azure DevOps. • Ability to confidently operate and collaborate with other roles across teams without  supervisions. 
• Ability to understand and create test plans from business requirements or verbal  communications. 
• Flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing product and business needs. • Experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies and activities. 

Personal Abilities: 

• Attention to details 
• Communication skills – fluent verbal and written English  
• Data collection, management, and analysis 
• Problem analysis and problem solving 
• Planning and organizing 
• Customer service orientation 
• Teamwork 

What we offer: 

• A substantial degree of flexibility, allowing for an autonomous approach to performing duties. 
• Challenging and varied work. 
• Flat management structure. 
• Long-term prospects with plenty of opportunities for development and growth. • Excellent team-oriented and international working environment. 
• Hybrid model of working 
• Private health insurance

If you see yourself in this role, let us know in an e-mail, we would like to get to know you.  Send us your application including CV, motivation letter, salary expectations and Job ID 24061  at [email protected] by 16.05.2024.