Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Remote)

What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?

• Health & wellbeing resources and programs 
• Paid vacation and personal days for work-life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Flexible work arrangements
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to participate and contribute to community causes
• Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environments

We’re looking for our next Sr. QA Engineer. Could It Be You?

The Quality Assurance Engineer will provide strong expertise in the areas of Automated and Manual QA activities for applications developed by Questrade Technology Group (QTG), with particular focus on client web applications and QA Automation framework. The QA Engineer should have strong development skills as well asin depth knowledge of quality assurance techniques, testing concepts, methodologies and tools.

What’s it like working as a Sr. QA Engineer at Questrade? 

• Write test strategies, test plans, and test cases throughout the development lifecycle of complex web applications.
• Ensure test plans thoroughly cover all requirements and use cases.
• Improve current test suites in order to achieve better coverage and quality.
• Develop, maintain and extend an existing QA automation framework and test automation scripts using JavaScript, Typescript, Cypress/Playwright.
• Write SQL queries for backend testing.
• Participate in sprint planning activities and provide estimates for manual and automated testing work.
• Collaborate with QA team members to collectively plan, schedule and perform manual and automated software tests.
• Setup and configure test environments and import test data.
• Perform API Testing.
• Work closely with Software Engineers to perform early testing  on components prior to integration builds. 
• Manage defect tracking  and proactively identify risks to management; monitor and report results. 
• Report QA status, as appropriate, to keep project stakeholders informed on deliverables and timelines. 
• Foster a continuous improvement approach to QA activities.
• Customize/Add tests in the Pipeline.
• Adopt and encourage best practices amongst QA engineers.

So are YOU our next Sr. QA Engineer? You are if you have…

• BS in computer science or related field
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as QA Analyst role with solid progression in responsibility
• Experience on back-end testing including APIs and SQL.
• Experience with testing high performance web and mobile applications.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle, methodology and testing.
• Knowledge of GIT, GitHub/GitLab.
• Knowledge of CI/CD concepts.
• Back-end testing including APIs (RESTful API), basic SQL skills, mocking APIs.
• Ability to apply concepts of unit, system, regression, product, integration and acceptance testing to web application features.
• Exposure to non-functional testing (e.g Performance and Security).
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to investigate and research multiple sources.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral/written communications skills.
• Behavior driven development testing (BDD).
• Ability to work in an Agile environment.

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