Who are we?
Transcenda, headquartered in the US, was founded in July 2019 and is a full-lifecycle product development company. With locations throughout Europe - Romania, Poland, and Ukraine, Transcenda works with Fortune 500 companies and well-funded startups to help bring new products to life.
Transcenda helps companies ideate new product concepts, build prototypes, design world-class solutions then engineer new commercial products. Transcenda puts people first and strives to be a changemaker by building a better world through technology. Transcenda has grown from a 5-person team to over 250 people over the past three years and plans to continue growing.
Key responsibilities
Demonstrate a deep, system-level understanding of the entire product architecture to ensure comprehensive and thorough testing across all layers.
Proactively identify, coordinate, and manage cross-team dependencies to ensure seamless end-to-end quality and delivery.
Employ extensive testing experience across Native Mobile Applications, Backend services, and Front-end systems .
Design and execute advanced testing techniques, including thorough Monkey Testing, and champion the introduction of Chaos Engineering practices into the development pipeline.
Identify tasks/dependencies/risks during backlog grooming/planning.
Provide reasonable test estimates and feedback on priorities.
Fully understand and actively provide ways to improve project/solution level test strategy/test design principles.
Contribute to the evaluation of testing tools/techniques/strategies.
Contribute effectively to the development of a project's test strategy and automation suite.
Collaborate with developers/business analysts for feedback into software design and tests.
Assist with effective test reporting and contribute to ensuring the CI/CD pipeline has thorough test coverages.
Contribute effectively to utilize an automation framework for testing and the creation of test scripts (different automation test layers such as UI or API Acceptance Tests).
Identify gaps in the current automation suite and help prioritize those / get them into the backlog.
Investigate and assist in diagnosing issues.
Share testing/product knowledge with other team members.
Must have
5+ years of professional experience in Quality Assurance or Software Testing, with a focus on large, complex, and distributed systems.
Proven experience as a coordinator or leader managing QA activities across multiple, interdependent teams and technical domains (Mobile, Web, Backend).
Deep expertise in various testing methodologies, including mandatory experience with Monkey Testing and/or a strong theoretical or practical background in Chaos Engineering/Resilience Testing.
Mandatory professional experience testing: Native Mobile Applications (iOS and/or Android), Distributed Backend/Microservices Platforms.
Exposure to cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and understanding of how cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) impact system testing.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
Professional experience in complex frontend web applications.
Automation is a plus; experience programming or scripting in at least one modern language (e.g., Python or Ruby).
What we offer
100% remote in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, or Brazil.
B2B Contract.
English classes.