The Senior QA Engineer will streamline QA processes, mentor colleagues, and improve software quality through testing strategies and automation.
Xello is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer__
Who are you?
Who are you?
You are someone who is adamant about streamlining the QA process, stopping regression, and ensuring the highest level of quality in software through QA processes. You enjoy being on the cutting edge of technology, embracing the latest QA tools and applying best practices in a modern software environment.
We embrace diversity in backgrounds and skill sets within our team. If you identify with any of these aspects, we would be excited to start a conversation:
- A critical thinker who harbours a passion for quality and software testing
- A naturally curious individual who enjoys exploring and fine-tuning gadgets
- A resourceful problem-solver who also has a knack for generating innovative solutions
- Possess extensive knowledge and experience with software testing techniques, methodologies, and tools
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration Testing and tools such as Jenkins
- A fan of the dynamic, iterative agile working environment
- A Quality Champion who can mentor and lead to bring out the best in the team.
Sound exciting to you? Read on!
What you’ll do…- Work closely with product stakeholders, frontend and backend developers, design, DevOps, IT, and other QA engineers in a cross-functional agile environment
- Have opportunities to use a variety of tools, frameworks, and technologies
- Champion quality assurance, guiding and mentoring colleagues on various testing techniques and methodologies
- Orchestrate and coordinate tests, employing automation in testing to facilitate the creation of exceptional products
- Analyze current QA processes and propose improvements to streamline operations, reduce bugs, and improve overall software quality
- Take ownership and responsibility for the quality of features, working with the engineering team to choose the right tools to measure and enforce code quality
- Develop, write, and execute test strategies, plans, and test cases based on design specifications and requirements
- Design and execute automated test scripts using the most suitable automation tools, striving to optimize test processes through automation wherever feasible
- Self-manage assigned work within given timelines in an agile environment
- Be actively involved in release management and the overall release process as part of the Deployment Owner group
- Collaborate with a large network of external clients, internal stakeholders, and students to create some of the most engaging and innovative products in the education market
- 5+ years of experience in testing large-scale SaaS applications
- Complete understanding of automation infrastructure
- Experience in DevOps or Full Stack roles within QA-related fields, coupled with the ability to contribute to the enhancement of frameworks and tools, is desirable
- Knowledge of programming and familiarity with JavaScript, SQL, C#, HTML, CSS
- Expertise in automation testing tools like Cypress or equivalent
- Good understanding of accessibility standards WCAG 2.0 (Level AA) and US Section 508 compliance
- Proficient knowledge of advanced software testing skills and concepts, such as Black/White Box Testing, Integration Testing, and System Testing
- Experience in non-functional testing such as performance testing and security testing is an asset
- Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman is an asset
- Experience with C#.Net, PowerShell scripting is an asset
- Experience with deployment tools and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Octopus Deploy is an asset
Top Skills
C#
CSS
Cypress
HTML
JavaScript
Jenkins
Postman
SQL
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