Starboard Recruitment, on behalf of our client, is searching for an experienced Senior QA Engineer located in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Our client is a top-tier, US-based, Series-B startup in the IAM space. They currently have team in San Francisco, Boulder, Vancouver and Toronto.

Qualified candidates will be contacted to setup an initial screening call.

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The Role

• We are looking for an experienced software quality engineer to work on our distributed-identity orchestration platform. You will join an engineering team that strongly believes in designing for security, reliability, and scale with diligent code reviews and test-driven development to build the world's first distributed identity orchestration platform.
• Our elite engineering team is fast, creative, and agile; with a rapid, agile release cycle and individual ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward you with stimulating new projects, emerging technologies, and the chance to significantly impact a company that is changing the identity management landscape forever.
• As a Sr QA Software Engineer you will help shape the vision and execute to ensure the highest quality in our offerings, focusing on our user interface. To that end, you will work with technical leaders to evolve the quality plan and then coordinate that work in its implementation. This will include manual regression and new feature testing, and building and maintaining automated tests. Each team is responsible for the quality of their code. You will lead the team's efforts to ensure the appropriate level of quality is achieved.

Responsibilities

• Establish, measure and evolve both formal and informal QA processes; ensuring that the team is using the right approach for each challenge.
• Work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to apply best practices while developing new tools and processes to meet quality goals.
• Report on status of quality of releases and environments.
• Act as a key point of contact for QA aspects of releases and products, providing QA services and coordinating effort within and across engineering teams.
• Work with technical product managers to understand new product capabilities as they emerge.
• Work with technical writers to ensure accuracy of product documentation.
• Manage, develop, prioritize, and execute test plans, cases, scripts, and procedures (manual and automated).
• Mentor and be mentored, coach and be coached, as part of a growing engineering team.
• Work in hybrid environment, with at least 3 days per week in our downtown Vancouver office.

Traits

• Take an agile, iterative approach to development, dividing long-term goals into incremental milestones.
• Enjoy being part of a highly collaborative, hybrid work environment.
• Have the ability to be self-directed, yet feel equally comfortable contributing in a team environment.
• Adaptable and willing to apply your skills to help the team achieve its goals.
• Place a high value on security and reliability.
• Are a good communicator and enjoy interacting with people.
• Possess the desire to learn and curiosity to understand how and why things work.

Experience

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years experience in QA software development for cloud-native or enterprise software company.
• Experience designing and developing integration and cross-browser automation tests.
• Working knowledge of AWS, Docker, and log monitoring tools such as Datadog.
• Grounding in modern software engineering practices and design patterns
• Solid understanding of the technical fundamentals of Linux, networking, and cloud-based applications.
• Understanding of enterprise identity infrastructure and core security concerns of cloud and on-premises environments.

Experience - Nice to Have, but not Required

• Experience with at least one identity standard like OAuth, SAML, OIDC, or LDAP.
• Knowledge of cloud identity (AzureAD, Okta, Google, and AWS) and/or on-premises identity (SiteMinder, OAM, ClearTrust, Ping, ForgeRock).
• Experience with Test Driven Development and Pair Programming.

It's not expected that a single candidate has expertise in all these areas.

We're looking for professional engineers who can quickly learn and adapt as our systems and situations change rather than candidates with a rigid skill set.

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