NOTE: HYBRID work model, 3 days per week in Markham, Ontario office

TYPE: Full-time

SKILLS: 5-7+ years as Senior QA, Offshore Team experience, SQL Queries, API, Java, JavaScript, UI, Web Services, Postman, SoapUI, REST, Jenkins, Jira, Xray, Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, BDD, Playwright, JMeter, AWS, KPI metrics, Agile

INDUSTRY: Software Development

DESCRIPTION:

Seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in UI, web services, and database testing, along with proficiency in Jira for test management. This role involves developing and implementing testing strategies to ensure the highest quality of our software products. This role currently involves 80% manual testing and 20% automation testing.

• Develop and implement comprehensive testing strategies.
• Design, write, execute, and maintain test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures on Xray
• Conduct thoroughly testing software applications, including UI, web services, and databases.
• Defect management - experience with Jira
• Work closely with the development team to ensure high-quality software development.
• Perform both manual and automated testing.
• Collaborate with the business to understand end-user flows and incorporate them into testing.
• Ensure the latest industry practices and technologies are applied.
• Manage any potential risks related to product quality and raise a flag early.
• Understand stakeholders and ensure clear communication is established.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to fellow QA Engineers.
• Create documentation and document QA processes.
• Aware of testing KPIs and willing to learn ways to contribute to better metrics.
• Jira dashboard skills.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven work experience as a Senior QA Engineer.
• Experience with UI, web services, and database testing.
• Proficiency in Jira for test management.
• Medium proficiency in writing SQL queries, including basic joins on tables.
• Basic Unix skills to log in to servers and navigate logs.
• Experience with web service testing using Postman and/or SoapUI.
• Knowledge of REST basics.
• Working knowledge of relational databases.
• System knowledge to understand the scope of testing (UI, DB, or web service).
• Clear understanding of types of testing and how to group and prioritize tests under respective suites (Smoke, Integration, Regression).
• Knowledge of Jenkins - how deployment jobs function, how to integrate automation test jobs to deployment pipeline.
• Mentality to automate any repetitive tasks.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium , TestNG or JUnit, and Cucumber.
• Proficiency in Java or any other JavaScript automation test tools.
• Ability to identify what to automate and what not to automate.
• Understands clear segregation of business logic, scope testing accordingly
• Understands and practices Test Pyramid
• Knows BDD
• Ability to push back and challenge when QA processes are not met.
• Ability to define and lead test strategy.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience working with an offshore team.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Playwright - an asset
• Familiarity with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines on Jenkins
• Knowledge of performance (JMeter) and security testing.

NOTE: We openly welcome and invite applications from persons with disabilities or those protected by the human rights code and provide accommodation during all stages of the recruitment and hiring process, upon request.

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