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 Hybrid and flexible work arrangements 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 Senior QA Engineer. Could It Be You?   The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will provide strong expertise in the areas of Automated and Manual QA activities for applications developed by Questrade Technology Group (QTG), with particular focus on client web applications and QA Automation framework. The QA Engineer should have strong development skills as well as in depth knowledge of quality assurance techniques, testing concepts, methodologies and tools.   What’s it like working as a Senior QA Engineer at Questrade?   In this role, you will use your expertise to: Write test strategies, test plans, and test cases throughout the development lifecycle of complex web applications Review business and technical requirements to define test cases that covers both requirements thoroughly Improve current test suites in order to achieve better coverage and quality Develop, maintain and extend an existing QA automation framework and test automation scripts using JavaScript, Selenium, Protractor and other frameworks Write SQL queries for backend testing Write automation test cases for Web application and REST APIs Participate in sprint planning activities and provide estimates for manual and automated testing work;  Collaborate with QA team members to collectively plan, schedule and perform manual and automated software tests Setup and configure test environments and import test data Work closely with Software Engineers to perform early testing  on components prior to integration builds  Manage defect tracking  and proactively identify risks to management; monitor and report results  Report QA status, as appropriate, to keep project stakeholders informed on deliverables and timelines  Foster a continuous improvement approach to QA activities Adopt and encourage best practices amongst QA engineers Assist team on monitoring and troubleshooting application in production environments to guarantee good system reliability So are YOU our next Senior QA Engineer? You are if you have… BS in computer science or related field Minimum of 5 years’ experience as QA Analyst role with solid progression in responsibility Demonstrated ability to develop QA automation scripts for web applications, including Angular single page applications Strong knowledge of E2E testing frameworks for Web and Mobile applications Strong knowledge of JavaScript, asynchronous programming and promises Strong knowledge of testing manually and automating tests for REST APIs Experience on back-end testing including APIs and SQL Experience with testing high performance web and mobile applications Experience analyzing systems logs to troubleshoot issues Knowledge of software development lifecycle, methodology and testing Ability to apply concepts of unit, system, regression, product, integration and acceptance testing to web application features Exposure to non-functional testing (e.g Performance and Security) Excellent analytical skills with the ability to investigate and research multiple sources Excellent interpersonal and oral/written communications skills Ability to work in an Agile environments Knowledge of financial and/or stock marketing industry is a plus Sounds like you? Click below to apply! #LI-MM1 #LI-Remote