General QA Engineer in Private Email Product Team

Location: Ukraine (Remote)

Your expertise:

• Experience in software testing 3+ years
• Good knowledge of SDLC and Scrum / Kanban methodologies
• Good theoretical background (e.g. testing types and approaches, test design techniques, etc.)
• Experience in writing and maintaining test documentation (bug reports, test cases, checklists) and bug-tracking systems
• Experience in Web application testing
• Experience in REST API testing
• Experience in requirement analysis
• Experience with bug-tracking systems (Jira)
• Experience with Git, CI / CD
• Experience with automation using JS / TS programming languages
• Experience with testing tools stack (e.g. Postman, Browser Dev tools, etc.)
• Experience with log monitoring systems (e.g. Kibana / OpenSearch)
• Knowledge of SQL scripting and database structure
• English Intermediate or higher
• Strong soft skills

Will definitely be a plus:

• Knowledge and understanding of how email services work
• Knowledge and understanding of how DNS systems work
• Knowledge of AWS cloud systems

Personal skills:

• Responsible
• Proactive
• Good communication skills
• Team player
• Willing to improve professional knowledge
• Analytical mindset
• Attention to details

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to deal with top-notch technologies and approaches in a world-leader product company with millions of customers
• Opportunity to make a difference for online privacy, freedom of speech, and net neutrality
• Decent market rate compensation depending on experience and skills
• Developed corporate culture: no micromanagement, culture based on principles of truth, trust, and transparency
• “You build it, you own it” mentality in most contexts
• Support of personal and professional development
  • coverage of costs of external trainings, conferences, professional literature
  • support of experienced colleagues
  • in-house events and trainings
  • regular knowledge sharing in teams
  • English classes and speaking clubs
• Life-balance support
  • truly flexible schedule, no time-tracking at all
  • 25 working days of vacation
  • 5 days of paid sick leave per month (if necessary) without providing a medical certificate
  • generous maternity leave program
• Professionally strong environment, friendly and open atmosphere, ability to influence the product development and recognition for it

You will be involved into:

• Participation in requirements analysis and classification
• Manual testing (Web application (including front-end testing), back-end API testing)
• Automation tests creation and maintenance
• Create and maintain test documentation
• Bug reporting
• Provide test estimation and status reports
• Support releases (including post-release monitoring)

About the company and project:

Namecheap was founded in 2000 on the idea that all people deserve value-priced domains delivered through stellar service. Today Namecheap is a leading ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and Web Hosting company with over 12 million customers and 17 million domains under management — and we’re just getting started. Our culture is built on the values that we live every day; the way we work, the way we collaborate with our global network of colleagues and the way we relentlessly innovate solutions that meet the emerging needs of our customers.

The Private Email Team manages 2 products. The Namecheap Private Email (powered by Open-Xchange) is a cloud-based open-source collaboration software that meets all necessary email, calendar and contacts, tasks management, and document storage needs.

However, the maximum amount of time is devoted to developing a new email product called Spacemail from scratch. This is a secure email service for the customer's domain.