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To ensure the quality of software development and deployment, we have a very qualified team of quality assurance engineers. They are involved in performing manual tests to guarantee that the software created by our Development team is fit for our partner's needs. Some of their duties include analysis of software and systems, risk mitigation, bug reporting, and prevention of software issues.
The Quality Assurance Engineers contribute to ensuring the quality of our product by providing testing on all stages of the development lifecycle. They perform manual testing by writing, performing, and updating test suites as well as defining the acceptance criteria for our products' features.


In order to progress in our development path and Level Up or Step Up, our Quality Assurance team must:</br>
Developing in this framework is not only about effectively testing but, beyond that, it means advocating for the quality of Secure Group’s products and ensuring they are up to the standards of our partners' expectations.
* Meet the criteria of the Level & Step Chart for the [[Individual_Contributors|Individual Contributors Path]]
* Score at least a grade 4 in the [[KAI]] of the position in order to reach Level 3
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= [[Knowledge_Management#Knowledge_Accountability_Index|KAI]] of the position =


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= Progression=
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In order to progress in our development path and Level Up or Step Up, our QAs must:
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* Meet the criteria of the Level & Step Chart for the [[Performance#Individual_Contributors_Levels|Individual Contributors Path]]
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* Meet the [[Qyality_Assurance#KAI_of_the_framework|KAI]] grade of the framework related to each level
== General Knowledge ==
* Demonstrate proficiency in [[Secure Group Knowledge]]
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!rowspan="1"|Concepts
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development Agile]
|-
!rowspan="1"|Frameworks
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development) Scrum]
|-
!rowspan="18"|Softwares/Tools/ Platforms - Usage
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jira_(software) Atlassian Jira]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BambooHR BambooHR]
|-
|[https://combain.com/ Combain]
|-
|[https://goharbor.io/ Docker Harbor]
|-
|[https://www.elastic.co/kibana Elastic Kibana]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexnode Hexnode]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openfire Ignite Realtime Openfire]
|-
|[https://inlinemanual.com/ Inline Manual]
|-
|[https://www.inspectlet.com/ Inspectlet]
|-
|[https://www.kamailio.org/w/ Kamailio]
|-
|[https://www.libib.com/ Libib]
|-
|[https://products.office.com/en-us/exchange/email Ms Exchange]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRTG_Network_Monitor Paessler PRTG]
|-
|[https://www.small-improvements.com/ Small Improvements]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tableau_Software Tableau]
|-
|[https://thycotic.com/ Thycotic Passwordbox]
|-
|[https://unwiredlabs.com/ Unwired Labs]
|-
|[https://www.paycor.com/ximble Ximble]
|-
!rowspan="3"|Softwares/Tools/ Platforms - Configuration
|[https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview/#docker-engine Docker Engine/Container]
|-
|[https://www.elastic.co/ Elasticsearch]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Knox Samsung Knox]
|-
!rowspan="6"|Languages
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets CSS]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) Java]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript Javascript]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language) Kotlin]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP PHP]
|-
!rowspan="1"|Languages (Idioms)
|Advanced English
|}
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= Salary Grid =
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All mentioned salary ranges represent the monthly income in Bulgarian Lev after taxes and deductions.
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== Specific Knowledge ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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!rowspan="8"|'''Concepts'''
!colspan="2"|Quality Assurance
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development Agile]
!colspan="4"|Step
|-
|-
|[https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/process-lifecycle Application Lifecycle]
!rowspan="11"|Level
|-
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_scorecard Balanced Scorecard]
!Individual Contributor Path
!1
!2
!3
!4
|-
|-
|[http://tryqa.com/what-is-a-defect-life-cycle/ Defect life cycle]
!1
|2.300
|2.450
|2.600
|2.750
|-
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_development_environment IDE]
!2
|3.300
|3.450
|3.600
|3.750
|-
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_testing_(software) Stress and Robustness  testing]
!3
|4.300
|4.450
|4.600
|4.750
|-
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_effort Test Effort estimation]
!4
|5.300
|5.450
|5.600
|5.750
|-
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_automation Test Automation]
!5
|6.300
|6.450
|6.600
|6.750
|-
|-
!rowspan="7"|Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Usage
!6
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appium Appium]
|7.300
|-
|7.450
|[https://count.ly/ Countly]
|7.600
|-
|7.750
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git Git]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instabug Instabug]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software) Jenkins]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software) Selenium]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQuirreL_SQL_Client SQuirrel SQL client]
|-
!rowspan="2"|Softwares/Tools/Platforms - Configuration
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appium Apache Tomcat]
|-
|[https://count.ly/ Microsoft Azure]
|-
!rowspan="2"|Libraries
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhantomJS#CasperJS CasperJS]
|-
|[https://www.espressolibrary.com/ Espresso]
|-
!rowspan="2"|Frameworks
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit JUnit]
|-
|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHPUnit PHPUnit]
|}
|}
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</div>
  </div>
</div>
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= IT Knowledge =
= [[Knowledge_Management#Knowledge_Accountability_Index|KAI]] of the framework =
  </div>
== Extensive Knowledge ==
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{| class="wikitable"
!System Administration
|-
!System Administration - Day to Day Ops
|-
!Networking concepts
|-
!Android Development
|-
!Programming
|}
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  <div class="box-header center">
= Secure Group Knowledge =
The first item we require proficiency regarding our company is the '''Secure Group Management Model''' (yes, the content in this wiki!). Besides that, we also need our employees to understand our products in all aspects as described in the following table:
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{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;; background-color:#DEEBFF; color:#222;"
!colspan="1"|Secure Group Knowledge
|- style="font-weight:bold; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#EAECF0; color:#172B4D;"
!rowspan="1"|What's Expected
! rowspan="2" | Type
!rowspan="1"|Impact
! rowspan="2" | Knowledge Description
!rowspan="1"|Product
! colspan="6" | Minimum Grade to acquire Level X
!colspan="1"|Minimum Grade
|- style="font-weight:bold; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D;"
| Level 1
| Level 2
| Level 3
| Level 4
| Level 5
| Level 6
|-
|-
!rowspan="6"|User Documentation
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D; text-align:center;" | Frameworks
|rowspan="6"|Good, user-level knowledge regarding the product and its functionalities. From the user documentation, all employees across the company are required to be well aware of our solutions’ core features and functions such as the Password Advisor or how to send an automatic crash report.
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development) Scrum]
|rowspan="6"|This knowledge helps us facilitate a user-centric approach internally, which we believe is essential to develop our business and solutions. The user documentation helps team members understand user behavior and needs more thoroughly and feel the impact of their everyday efforts.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|Secure OS
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|4
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|SAS
| rowspan="7" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D; text-align:center;" | Protocols
|4
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP_(software) SIP]
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Chat
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP XMPP]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Email
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP ZRTP]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Vault
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy PGP]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Manager
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging OTR]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
!rowspan="6"|Sales Documentation
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEMO OMEMO]
|rowspan="6"|Employees should gain significant knowledge regarding the business side of '''Secure Group'''. They need to be aware of commonly used concepts in our day-to-day activities such as our business and distribution model, value proposition, selling prices, key selling points, and target audience.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|rowspan="6"|The information in the Sales Documentation supports employees in their daily routine. It conveys the overall business vision within the company. This documentation contributes to making employees aware of how our solutions are distributed, who are our key partners and target market to know exactly the people towards whom team members’ efforts should be aimed. Alignment on company-wide priorities is also achieved through clear communication of our value proposition and key selling points, helping everyone understand the things that matter most.
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
|Secure OS
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
|3
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|SAS
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security SSL]
|3
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Chat
| rowspan="6" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D; text-align:center;" | Programming languages
|3
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets CSS]
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Email
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML HTML]
|3
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Vault
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) Java]
|3
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Manager
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript Javascript]
|3
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
!rowspan="6"|Support Documentation
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language) Kotlin]
|rowspan="6"|People within the company need to be aware of commonly occurring problems with our solutions. From the Support Documentation, employees should also extract general level knowledge regarding support processes, the issues that we’re currently having product-wise, and the approach to troubleshooting them.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|rowspan="6"|o The Support Documentation helps employees understand short-term priorities more clearly and communicate more openly why they’re needed. It also gives them general knowledge of how to spot and report a problem, which helps us facilitate a company-wide contribution to product development. Last but by no means least, it helps team members understand customers pains and behavioral patterns to strengthen our user-centric approach.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|Secure OS
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
|3
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|SAS
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script?wprov=srpw1_0 Shell Script]
|3
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Chat
| rowspan="2" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D; text-align:center;" | Libraries
|3
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhantomJS#CasperJS CasperJS]
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Email
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://developer.android.com/training/testing/espresso Espresso]
|3
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Vault
| rowspan="13" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D; text-align:center;" | Software/Tools/Platforms
|3
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appium Apache Tomcat]
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Manager
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/15711/synapsert-test-management-for-jira?hosting=server&tab=overview Atlassian Jira SynapseRT]
|3
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
!rowspan="6"|Functional Documentation
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio Android Studio]
|rowspan="6"|Through the Functional Documentation, employees should get a thorough understanding of the solutions and their multiple features. People that work closely with the products must understand exactly how they function, how users interact with them, how to configure different settings, and what’s the expected behavior of different software solutions.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|rowspan="6"|o The information in the Functional Documentation helps employees whose work is closely connected with our solutions, to gain significant in-depth knowledge into their functionalities that far exceeds users‘ understanding. Such thorough product expertise helps us remain objective, evaluate market data more adequately, and constantly increase our internal expertise.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|Secure OS
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
|4
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|SAS
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://count.ly/ Countly]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Chat
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://docs.docker.com/get-started/overview/#docker-engine Docker Engine/Container]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Email
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://www.elastic.co/ Elasticsearch]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Vault
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git Git]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Manager
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ Gerrit]
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
!rowspan="6"|Technical Documentation
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamailio Kamailio]
|rowspan="6"|Employees concerned with the Technical Documentation and more concretely - software development, must gain complete mastery over all solutions. Such people are regarded as technical experts and need to be well aware of data structures, relational databases, algorithms, programming languages, models, etc.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|rowspan="6"|The Technical Documentation is used to make sure people that are technically involved in product development have the required knowledge to perform their day-to-day tasks, optimize our solutions more easily, and support other teams with their in-depth expertise.
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|Secure OS
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
|4
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|SAS
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://count.ly/ Microsoft Azure]
|4
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Chat
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openfire Openfire]
|4
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Email
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | Secure Manager
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
|Secure Vault
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#0052CC; text-align:left;" | SAS
|4
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|-
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
|Secure Manager
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
|4
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|-
|-
| style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#F4F5F7; color:#172B4D; text-align:center;" | Languages (idioms)
| style="background-color:#FFF; color:#172B4D; text-align:left;" | Advanced Business English
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#FFFAE5;" | Limited experience
| style="background-color:#E3FCEF;" | Practical application
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
| Applied theory
|}
|}
 
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= Salary Grid =
  </div>
{| class="wikitable"
</div>
!colspan="2"|Quality Assurance
</div>
!colspan="4"|Step
|-
!rowspan="11"|Level
|-
!Individual Contributor Path
!1
!2
!3
!4
|-
!1
|1.500 lv
|1.650 lv
|1.800 lv
|1.950 lv
|-
!2
|2.500 lv
|2.650 lv
|2.800 lv
|2.950 lv
|-
!3
|3.500 lv
|3.650 lv
|3.800 lv
|3.950 lv
|-
!4
|4.500 lv
|4.650 lv
|4.800 lv
|4.950 lv
|-
!5
|5.500 lv
|5.650 lv
|5.800 lv
|5.950 lv
|-
!6
|6.500 lv
|6.650 lv
|6.800 lv
|6.950 lv
|}

Latest revision as of 08:12, 6 October 2022

The Quality Assurance Engineers contribute to ensuring the quality of our product by providing testing on all stages of the development lifecycle. They perform manual testing by writing, performing, and updating test suites as well as defining the acceptance criteria for our products' features.

Developing in this framework is not only about effectively testing but, beyond that, it means advocating for the quality of Secure Group’s products and ensuring they are up to the standards of our partners' expectations.


Progression

In order to progress in our development path and Level Up or Step Up, our QAs must:


Salary Grid

All mentioned salary ranges represent the monthly income in Bulgarian Lev after taxes and deductions.

Quality Assurance Step
Level
Individual Contributor Path 1 2 3 4
1 2.300 2.450 2.600 2.750
2 3.300 3.450 3.600 3.750
3 4.300 4.450 4.600 4.750
4 5.300 5.450 5.600 5.750
5 6.300 6.450 6.600 6.750
6 7.300 7.450 7.600 7.750

KAI of the framework

Extensive Knowledge

Type Knowledge Description Minimum Grade to acquire Level X
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
Frameworks Scrum Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Protocols SIP Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
XMPP Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
ZRTP Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
PGP Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
OTR Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
OMEMO Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
SSL Limited experience Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Programming languages CSS Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
HTML Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Java Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Javascript Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Kotlin Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Shell Script Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Libraries CasperJS Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Espresso Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Software/Tools/Platforms Apache Tomcat Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Atlassian Jira SynapseRT Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Android Studio Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Countly Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Docker Engine/Container Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Elasticsearch Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Git Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Gerrit Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Kamailio Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Microsoft Azure Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Openfire Practical application Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Secure Manager Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
SAS Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory
Languages (idioms) Advanced Business English Limited experience Limited experience Practical application Applied theory Applied theory Applied theory