QA-004 Software Engineer in Test

Toronto, Canada-Wide Remote

Position summary

As a Software Engineer in Test you will work with our test automation efforts with our software development team in our Toronto office, and lead the test activities within a scrum team. The team, while autonomous, works in close conjunction with a global team of developers, quality assurance testers, DevOps engineers, and product services.

Responsibilities

As this position is for a Software Engineer in Test, your role will be primarily focused on leading our test automation efforts with our Toronto development team. You will need to be hands-on, so a developer background is crucial to succeeding in this role.

As part our team, you will be expected to do the following:

• Analyze and suggest the optimal approach to test automation for a set of products
• Be able to plan, develop, and run tests
• Develop and maintain test frameworks and test environments for multiple products at different versions
• Maintain and expand existing Selenium tests
• Work with testing activities as part of the work in sprints, including manual and exploratory testing

Experience in Test Automation

• Be able to create and maintain a test framework, including all needed configuration environments, CI, etc.
• Create automated tests (including writing scenarios) based on BDD
• Automate UI and integration tests, as well as system tests
• Experience using CI to support test automation
• Be able to step up and take responsibility for test processes in a CI / CD pipeline (working with our DevOps team)
• Appreciate the importance of reproducible builds and environments isolation in CI

Education

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technology field.

Required experience

• 5+ years in an agile software development environment, within automation
• 3+ years of experience writing code, preferably using C# .NET
• 3+ years of experience using scripting languages, preferably using PowerShell
• Selenium (preferably in C#)