Senior QA Engineer

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

Health & wellbeing resources and programs

Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance

Competitive compensation and benefits packages

Work-life balance in a hybrid environment with at least 3 days in office

Career growth and development opportunities

Opportunities to contribute to community causes

Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

This job posting is for an existing vacancy

We’re looking for our next Quality Assurance Engineer. Could It Be You?

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will provide a high level of expertise in the areas of Automated and Manual QA activities for applications developed by Questrade Technology Group (QTG), with particular focus on API Testing, backend web applications, microservices and high volume data flow/transactions. The QA Engineer should have strong development, communication and planning skills as well as in-depth knowledge of quality assurance techniques, testing concepts, methodologies and tools

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In this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Understand application workflow and write test strategies, test plans, and test cases throughout the development lifecycle

Ensure test plans thoroughly cover all requirements and use cases

Plan, schedule and perform manual and automated software tests

Improve current test suites in order to achieve better coverage and quality

Develop automated regression test suites using automated testing tools

Foster a continuous improvement approach to QA activities

Work closely with development to perform early testing on components prior to integration builds

Setup and configure test environments and import test data

Manage defect tracking and proactively identify risks to management monitor and report results

Perform root cause analysis of defects, conduct lessons learned meetings and propose improvements in processes and methodologies

Assists and actively participates in the communication between local and offshore development and QA teams, ensuring knowledge is shared efficiently

Participate in sprint planning activities and provide estimates for manual and automated testing work

Proficient in working with Linux environments, including basic shell scripting to manage and maintain test environments

Experience using Python and TypeScript to build, maintain and enhance automated test suites

Familiarity with performance testing tools and methodologies, with the ability to design, implement and analyze performance tests to ensure system reliability and scalability

So are YOU our next Senior QA Engineer? You are if you…

5+ years’ experience at QA Engineering role

Exposure to non-functional testing (e.g. Performance and Security)

Strong knowledge of Python or JavaScript, asynchronous programming

Back-end testing including APIs (RESTful API), basic SQL skills, mocking APIs;

Git or GitHub, Postman, Jira (or other similar tools)

Knowledge of software development life cycle, methodologies and testing

Experience with cloud technologies and modern pipelines

Solid knowledge of quality assurance techniques, testing concepts, methodologies and tools

Ability to apply concepts of unit, system, regression, product, integration and acceptance testing

Excellent analytical skills with the ability to investigate and research multiple sources

Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases

Knowledge of trading systems and trading concepts, particularly within the equities realm, is considered an asset

Compensation Information:

Base salary range: $100,000 - $130,000

The final compensation package will be commensurate with the successful candidate's experience, skills, and geographic location (Canada). It includes a comprehensive benefits plan and a competitive incentive (bonus) program for Full-Time Permanent roles.

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