QA Automation Engineer $85-90K

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NOTE: WFH during COVID-19. Hybrid work model post COVID, office located in Mississauga.

QA Automation Engineer

Location: Mississauga, Ontario

Status: Permanent

Career Level: Senior

Work Experience: 5+years QA Automation, Selenium, Java Scripting, REST API, Web, Jenkins, Git, AWS, Agile

Industry: Software Development

Description

Seeking a QA Automation Engineer to enhance our test coverage and Automation initiatives for faster and reliable delivery of our products. The QA Engineer must be a strong advocate for Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvements and QA Best Practices.

Responsibilities

• As a Quality Engineer you will be responsible for increasing our test coverage, build and maintain test case suites and our Automation code base.
• Work Independently as a fully engaged member of a SCRUM team, testing stories developed in the sprint.
• Support all testing activities related to manual and automation testing of stories developed in the sprint.
• Develop product knowledge of the application and use this knowledge to uncover defects and drive up test coverage.
• Create and execute test plans consisting of functional, system, regression and integration test suites.
• Build and maintain the test case, author test cases for various types of testing that will cover web applications and REST API.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to work effectively in team-oriented collaborative environment
• Perform system level regression testing to ensure product readiness for release cycles.
• Work with Product stakeholders and engineers to ensure all aspects of the application have proper test coverage and overall system reliability, performance and quality standards are met.
  

Requirements

• 5+ years experience QA Automation testing Web applications preferably in an AWS cloud environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experienced in scripting and/or programming languages with demonstrated ability to write deterministic automation scenarios.
• Experience writing Java code, implementing coding best practices and design patterns.
• Understanding of structure and usage of RESTful web services.
• Experienced with JIRA, Jenkins, and Git.
• Working experience having automation integrated with CI/CD pipeline(s) is a plus.
• Ability to work quickly and collaboratively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to demonstrate ownership and accountability through self-directed task management.
• Ability to manage time to balance exploratory/session-based/scenario-based testing and automation development commitments, all while helping your team meet their sprint commitments.
• Agile SCRUM experience
• ISTQB - QA Certification is an asset
  

To Apply: https://directitrecruiting.com/job/qa-automation-engineer/

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