Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
location: Vancouver, Canada (5 Days onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months onsite 

Requirements:

·  Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates; prioritizing work with general direction/minimal supervision.

·  Expertise in, and owning the testing capabilities across multiple programs/projects and communicate and influence the stakeholders to have collaborated and unified development, processes and initiatives across organization.

·  Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, design automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implement scalable test solutions.

·  Develop high quality test engineering best practices, test strategy and principles.

·  Devise and execute training, where appropriate, to develop and elevate skills within the team.

·  Partner with Software Engineers, UX/UI, quality Engineers, Product Managers to deliver high performing quality customer experiences that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity.

·  Participate in automation script code reviews and provide guidance on automation best practices.

·  Responsible for helping to identify gaps and needs of the agile team; including resources, skills, resource allocation, task assignment and delegation.

·  Coordinate various test-related activities for project delivery; identifying task dependencies, test schedules, creation of test data and utilization of test environments.

·  Develop and monitor test metrics and provide timely communication to key stakeholders on a regular basis.

·  Research, identify and implement newer testing technologies.

·  Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on identified risks and testing results.

·  Consistently demonstrates regular, dependable attendance & punctuality.

Qualifications

·  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar.

·  8+ years of experience in QA and/or Development.

·  Nice to have experience in retail/ecommerce domain.

·  3+ years of experience in using automation tools such as Playwright or Cypress and should be comfortable to program as needed

·  Understands the concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and their significance

·  2+ years of experience working with a Point-of-Sale system

·  Familiarity with AI tools such as using Copilot to accomplish tasks

·  Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.

·  Demonstrated skills using code repositories like GitHub.

·  Experience with JIRA for project management and defect tracking.

·  Experience leading ambiguous situations, dealing with IT issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure project deliverables on time and within budget.

·  Experience with a variety of test tools and software testing practices, including developing, implementing, maintaining and managing manual/automated testing systems and environments.

·  Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.

·  Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills.

·  Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles.

·  Excellent presentation skills to present ideas and work to the team and organization.

·  Experience presenting testing topics to quality assurance peer group internal and external to work.

·  Insightful and logical problem isolation and solving skills.

·  Results driven and goals-oriented.

·  Walking, seating, talking, working on a computer, using a phone.

·  Perform in a very focused and methodical manner with good time management skills.

·  Able to independently adapt and thrive through change.

·  Ability to lead projects individually and mentor team members.

·  Ability to lead and take ownership of testing process and implement them.

·  Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.

·  Ability to handle multiple large projects simultaneously.

·  Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.