SeniorLead General QC Engineer

NiX is a global company that helps businesses across the world develop successful software products. Founded in 2002 NiX has come a long way and increased its presence in eight countries spanning Europe the US and Latin America. Today we are a strong community of 2000 professionals and a reliable partner for global industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies.

We are actively looking for a Senior/Lead General QC Engineer to join our team! Our customer is one of the largest fashion retail companies in Europe that has a reach out on global markets as well.

Responsibilities:

• Develop test cases using BDD language to ensure comprehensive coverage of user stories and bugs.
• ollaborate with the Product Owner (PO) to establish clear acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Decide which tests to automate and select the appropriate type of automation (e.g. integration or E2E for frontend and backend).
• Assist the development team in creating and managing data required for testing and validating user stories and bugs.
• Monitor and ensure adequate test coverage for all tests performed by the development team.
• Define and perform manual exploratory tests for scenarios not covered by automation.
• Review and analyze automated test cases and results to identify gaps and areas for improvement.
• Work with the PO to define and organize sanity and smoke test cases for production environments.
• Perform manual exploratory testing of frontend functionality after deployments in the production environment.
• Collaborate with the development team to analyze defect sources and create test cases to prevent similar issues.
• Review and analyze E2E regression test pipelines to ensure readiness before release deployments.
• Develop and implement nonfunctional testing strategies such as performance and security testing with the development team.
• Track and report quality metrics using available dashboards and tools.
• Help the team understand and implement QA tools processes and models raising awareness of quality best practices.
• Document and update QA processes test plans and product quality strategies to ensure alignment across the team.
• Collaborate with developers to verify quality checks are correctly configured before merging pull requests.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies tools and processes.
• Proficiency in creating test cases in BDD/TDD (BehaviorDriven Development/TestDriven Development) language (e.g. Gherkin).
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks for integration and E2E testing (both backend and frontend)
• Knowledge of nonfunctional testing strategies (e.g. performance security).
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong ability to analyze and debug issues in collaboration with development teams.
• Ability to identify root causes of defects and implement preventative measures.
• Strong communication skills to support PO in defining acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Experience with manual exploratory testing for scenarios not covered by automation.
• Knowledge of smoke/sanity testing processes in production environments.
• Ability to monitor quality metrics and regression pipeline results.
• Proficiency in reporting automated test statuses and incidents to the team.
• Skilled in maintaining documentation around quality assurance processes and lead quality for the product.
• Ability to align testing strategy with the teams delivery goals.