Responsibilities:

• Create testing-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, and bug reports assessing quality and associated risk
• Identify areas ideal for automation and automate regression, functional and sanity tests 
• Perform all aspects of verification, including functional, structural, regression, stress, stability and system testing
• Document, troubleshoot and isolate problems encountered during testing
• Own the bug database
• Recommend streamlining of processes to improve test efficiency
• Develop and maintain metrics to help with go/no go decisions for product release
• Lead and mentor QA team members 
• Plan, estimate, and review test schedule and strategy 
• Prioritize and assign tasks to the team 
• Support testers by reviewing work and providing feedback 
• Ensure effective collaboration between QA and other teams on the project 
• Provide detailed status of all active projects

Education / Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent knowledge and experience
• 4-6 years of QA experience for a web-based product
• 3+ years of experience with automated testing and automated testing frameworks
• 3+ years of experience leading a software testing group
• Working experience programming in Object-oriented languages and/or common scripting languages (Java, C++, Python, Ruby)
• Automation and scripting with test automation frameworks
• Working knowledge of SQL and database usage
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience working in a fast-paced, demanding environment (preferably at a startup) 
• English language knowledge

Personal Qualities:

• Self-motivated, hard-working and capable of learning new technologies fast
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work under stress
• Solid time management and organizational skills
• Self-directed and task oriented strategic planner
• Team player