Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Quality assurance tester to join our team. This role requires a strong background in both automated and manual testing, with hands-on experience in software development and the testing lifecycle.
The ideal candidate will be a proactive team player with hands-on automation experience, great communication skills and a passion for quality assurance in a fast-paced Agile environment. This role will focus on guiding teams on automation practices; and evolving current automation packages.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and conduct knowledge transfer sessions and guidance to QA team.
- Assess current state of automation, increase automation test coverage across multiple applications, and improve quality of scripting
- Ensure continuous improvements to automation by conducting research on the market for the newest and most robust automation tools, sharing recommendations on automation improvements and guiding teams through the implementation.
- Create and implement test strategies/plans, plan, execute, and review test results.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, document, and track defects and issues, produce test status reports
- Participate in the software development life cycle for Purolator’s various shipping channel applications; including but not limited to E-Ship Server, Data File Distribution, Web services, Mobile app, EDI, and SAP.
- Assist the production support team with issue resolution relating to Purolator’s various shipping channel applications.
- Coordinate test execution with other projects, and guide test team through test activities in various projects.
Education And Experience
- University or College diploma in computer science, software engineering, software design, or any computer application development specialty.
- 3-5 years of hands-on testing experience with a strong focus on test automation and AI tools .
- Proficiency and strong hands-on experience with a variety of test automation frameworks/tools e.g. Robot Framework, SoapUI, Selenium, TestNG and script development using scripting languages (e.g. Python, Java etc.).
- Experience with AI-powered testing tools and cloud-based testing platforms.
- Database experience (SQL, Dynamo) for testing and analysis.
- REST, SOAP, XML, API-based solutions.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub.
- Experience with JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence for test management.
- Experience with testing Mobile app, EDI, SAP, and AWS cloud is an asset.
- Knowledge of JMeter tool and experience with performance test planning and execution is an asset.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards (AODA, WCAG 2.0/2.1) and testing techniques is an asset.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills.
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently and take initiative.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a hybrid work environment.