On behalf of AKQA (http://www.akqa.com/) Ciklum is looking for a Senior QA Analyst for a new team in Kiev.

AKQA is an independent, ideas-led agency and we work with the world’s leading consumer brands.

We have offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco and Shanghai and are one of the world’s most admired creative agencies. AKQA has been named Revolution magazine’s Agency of the Decade, AdAge Digital Agency of the Year, AdWeek Digital Agency of the Year and one of Fast Company’s Top 50 World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Our people are core to the work we produce for our clients and contribute to a culture that fosters innovation, service, quality and thought in everything we do. We reward them by providing an inspirational working environment, opportunities to move between departments and international offices, excellent remuneration and an industry-leading training and development programming: AKQA Academy.
As a member of the AKQA Quality Assurance (QA) Team you must be inspired by technology and have a real passion for product quality.

Yes QA is about testing, and at AKQA the team work with truly innovative, cutting edge solutions designed and developed for some of the biggest brands on the planet. 

But QA isn’t just about testing, here it is about building quality into everything we do, it’s about all the things we can do to sail through testing and deliver a world class product.

Responsibilities

• Constantly act as an advocate for quality assurance.
• Contribute to the vision and strategy of the QA department, from implementation of QA procedures and client solutions through to delivering supporting documentation.
• Develop and deliver excellent test strategies, plans and reports for each project.
• Provide accurate estimates across multiple projects.
• Review user stories and other requirements documentation and create acceptance criteria.
• Gather and document functional and non-functional test requirements.
• Execute functional and non-functional tests and conduct sanity and regression testing.
• Conduct compatibility tests using different browsers and operating systems.
• Identify, analyse and document defects, errors and inconsistencies.
• Lead the QA effort at project level with support from the Quality Assurance Manager.
• Apply company and industry best practice and help other team members adopt best practices.

Essentials

• Senior level QA experience in agile development teams.
• Proven leadership responsibilities including : Estimation, Planning, Strategy, Monitoring and Control
• Test scripting, execution and defect management - pro-actively identifying risks and dependencies.
• Working with Scrum and with user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work closely with clients, third parties and development teams.
• Proven examples of driving quality throughout the project life cycle.
• Understanding of technical solutions, build and deploy processes and technical documentation.

 Advantageous

• Responsible for test automation deliverables and experience working with specialists to build and enhance test automation frameworks.
• Automating the testing of large-scale web projects
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Cucumber, SpecFlow, Selenium WebDriver, JMeter
• Scripting experience in Java or C#
• Recent experience testing on mobile platforms – iOS and Android
• Performance testing exposure

Ciklum offers you:

• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;
• A lot of various technical seminars;
• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;
• Competitive salary;
• Career and professional growth;
• Possibility to work in a big and successful company;
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.

Join Ciklum and «Cross the Borders» together with us! 

If you are interested – please send your CV.