QA Engineer

Is this role right for you?

• Conducts and adjusts testing methods and practices to assess and evolve products.

• Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans. Select appropriate test tools. Align test cases to requirements and user stories.

• In conjunction with the development team, collaborate, design and build automated and manual tests, develop/create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks.

• Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience. Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team.

• Conduct exploration testing to find bugs via other testing means and drive testing workshops.

• Wherever possible, conduct functional tests and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components)

• Working experience in Automation frameworks, developing, designing and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), test

NG, any one of behavior driven development (BDD) or Test-driven development (TDD frameworks like Karate and Cucumber)

• Thorough experience with data extraction, transformations and conversion testing.

• Ability to produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases.

• Analyze industry best practices to recommend improvements to methodology, test environments and workflow to promote an efficient and cost-effective UAT process.

• Collaborate actively with the development team, Product Owners, Business Analyst, and other application development and QA teams.

• Embed with development teams and infuse quality in every phase of the software development lifecycle by providing continuous feedback from QA standpoint regarding standards, user experience, possible performance issues, and future bugs.

• Participate in product design and requirements analysis, work with the team during project planning to accurately estimate work (data creation, test cases/acceptance test design, test execution, automation framework design/improvements, scripting tasks, setup environments, etc) and scope release deliverables (prioritizing defects and bugs).

• Lead end user focused testing activities and inform how product needs to be evolved

• Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases and adjusting approach where required

• Troubleshoot when problems arise and contribute to their resolution in a hands-on manner when necessary.

• Ability to come into the Scarborough office 4 days per week.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• Associate degree or B.S. in Computer Science, Information Technology or Equivalent Education / Work experience.

• Test automation experience with 5+ years of hands-on experience.

• Experience in analyzing the testing scope and developing work estimates.

• Experience in creating Test Strategies/Test Plans.

• QA analyst with a minimum of 5+ years of testing activities.

• 3+ years’ experience in Automation frameworks, developing, designing and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), test

NG, any one of behavior driven development (BDD) or Test-driven development (TDD frameworks like Karate and Cucumber)

• API specific testing

Experience with 5+ years of hands-on experience.

• 2+ years of experience with SQL, DB2.

• Proficient with API REST/SOAP testing and experience using related tools like Rest Assured etc.

• Experience with CI/CD and related tools and techniques;
Bitbucket.

• Experience working with GCP.

• Experience working with both Agile methodology and Waterfall SDLC.

• Experience creating test cases/defects with JIRA and Confluence

• Good understanding of UAT standards and methodologies

• Manage and review documentation and creating of testing artifacts (e.g., test strategies, plans,…