Senior QA Engineer

ALM Works is an established software company that focuses on developing best-in-class applications to empower project managers. Our flagship product, Structure for Jira, is one of the most popular applications on the Atlassian Marketplace. ALM Works is an active member of Atlassian Ecosystem and our team is working closely with Atlassian and other plugin vendors.

We have the privilege of serving more than 4,000 customers, many of which are among most well-known companies in the world: NASA, Google, Adobe, Intel, Sony, Disney, Netflix, Toyota, Twitter - to name just a few.

We’re looking for an experienced QA engineer to join our company. We are a team of dedicated professionals and you should want to release the best-in-class software in order to fit our team spirit.

What you need for this position:

• At least 5 years of experience in testing
• Solid experience in planning and executing manual functional, regression, and exploratory testing
• Experience in creating checklists
• Web application testing experience – business logic, usability and UI
• Understanding the difference between GET and POST requests
• Basic XSS knowledge
• Knowledge of different software development methodologies, software development lifecycle
• Experience in establishing or improving testing process
• Written English
• Experience with Jira

Experience with anything from the list below is a plus:

• Jira administration
• Leading the team
• Agile
• Mind maps
• Performance testing
• Security testing

These qualifications are a plus:

• Good spoken English
• ISTQB certification

What you’ll be doing:

• Test activities planning, participating in sprints and releases planning, requirement testing, performance testing
• Compatibility and integration testing on system level
• Exploratory and scripted testing of all our products
• Incoming requests investigation and communication with customers and other developers within Atlassian ecosystem

We offer:

• Working in a team of dedicated professionals
• Ability to contribute to new products which will be used by thousands of people
• Competitive salary (in the 90th percentile)
• After 9 months: quarterly bonus based on the financial performance of the company
• Productive and very informal working environment
• Possibility to work either remotely or from the office in Saint-Petersburg
• Flexible schedule, paid sick/personal leaves
• Premium medical insurance
• English lessons/fitness 50% reimbursement
• Opportunity to communicate with customers around the world and present the projects to the public on the Internet and at trade shows and conferences

How it works from the inside:

As an agile testing team we prefer Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation, so our tools mostly are brains, hands, mind maps and checklists. Our challenges are:

• A lot of compatibility testing (with databases, with browsers, with Jira and Confluence versions, with other plugins)
• Quality at speed: we often need to ship faster without cutting the quality
• Prioritization and exploration on everyday basis

Everyone in our company feels responsibility for the quality of the product. Our brave Development team writes unit and integration tests and does code review for each pull request. They have also created Structure.Testy product for us, and we use it for creating checklists right in Jira. Our DevOps engineers have created a special tool for faster instances creation based on the Docker platform.

We cannot function without close communication between team members. In addition to personal meetings and chat in Slack, we have regular standup meetings. Each team member can participate in communication with customers in order to better understand their needs: from customer support requests to personal meetings at international events and dedicated customer visits.

If you’re interested, please respond (in English) with a few words about why do you seek this position and your thoughts about Atlassian Jira, for example, your opinion on what are the three main advantages of Atlassian Jira (or, if you don’t have enough experience with Jira, take any other issue tracker.)