Quality Assurance 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  Career growth and development opportunities Opportunities to contribute to community causes Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment   We’re looking for our next QA Engineer. Could It Be You?   The 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.   What’s it like working as a QA Engineer at Questrade?   In this role, you will use your expertise 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 So are YOU our next QA Engineer? You are if you have… 3 years’ experience as 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 Sounds like you? Click below to apply! #LI-MM1 #LI-Remote