Compulsory skills: 

• Solid knowledge of the Quality Assurance methodologies and approaches;
• Software development process knowledge;
• Automated Testing
• Performance and stress testing
• Database oriented application testing. Oracle is a plus;
• Distributed applications testing (2/3-tiers/grid/cluster)
• Solid Linux or any other UNIX;
• Shell scripting
• SCM (svn/cvs);
• Jira;
• Successfully completed team projects;
• QA Documentation hands-on experience
• Good teaching/mentoring abilities;
• “Will-do” attitude to tasks

Preferable skills for position (but not compulsory):

• Programming skills is a huge plus
• Test cases/scenarios automation/scripting
• Software build process. Java projects builds is a huge plus.
• Continuous Integration environment process
• Knowledge of Web technologies (REST,XML, JSON, Web Services, Servlets)
• Service/Message Bus (ESB/MQ) or any other messaging systems knowledge;
• Presentation skills

Personal skills:

• Passionate about Quality Assurance
• Obsession with software quality and defects hunting;
• Written and verbal interpersonal/customer communication skills;
• Team member who can be a leader;
• Good verbal and written communication English skills.