Senior QA Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Location: Vancouver, BC

Duration: Long-term contract

Job type: Hybrid

Rate: CAD60 to CAD62/hr

Role/Services:

About this role

The client’s digital team is looking for a Senior QA Engineer with experience across our in-store Point-of-Sale (POS) and mobility stack, including Oracle Xstore and Xmobile, to support application architecture, development and innovation of new features for our store and consumer solutions. In this role, you will provide guidance and standards to Quality Engineers to provide the highest quality for each release across both platforms. Support high-quality automation test engineering, QA best practices, test strategy and principles. Perform other duties as assigned.

• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates; prioritizing work with general direction/minimal supervision.
• Expertise in, and owning the testing capabilities across multiple programs/projects and communicate and influence the stakeholders to have collaborated and unified development, processes and initiatives across organization.
• Own the integrated test strategy and automation across the POS and mobility stack, validating end-to-end store workflows (e.g., Xstore and Xmobile, payments, handheld devices and peripherals) to ensure consistent quality across both platforms.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, design automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implement scalable test solutions.
• Develop high-quality test engineering best practices, test strategy and principles.
• Devise and execute training, where appropriate, to develop and elevate skills within the team.
• Partner with Software Engineers, UX/UI, quality Engineers, Product Managers to deliver high performing quality customer experiences that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity.
• Participate in automation script code reviews and provide guidance on automation best practices.
• Responsible for helping to identify gaps and needs of the agile team; including resources, skills, resource allocation, task assignment and delegation.
• Coordinate various test-related activities for project delivery, identifying task dependencies, test schedules, creation of test data and utilization of test environments.
• Develop and monitor test metrics and provide timely communication to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Research, identify and implement newer testing technologies.
• Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on identified risks and testing results.
• Consistently demonstrates regular, dependable attendance & punctuality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or similar.
• 6+ years of experience in QA and/or Development.
• 2+ years of experience in using automation tools such as Playwright or Cypress and should be comfortable to program as needed
• 2+ years of experience testing iOS mobile applications using tools such as Appium and XCode – experience with Xmobile or store-associate handheld apps would be highly valued
• Understands the concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment and their significance
• 2+ years of experience working with a Point-of-Sale system, including related components such as payments and store peripherals – Oracle Xstore experience would be highly valued
• Experience testing across POS and mobile platforms, validating end-to-end store workflows (e.g., Xstore and Xmobile, iOS handheld devices, payments and peripherals) and building automation that spans both
• Familiarity with AI tools such as using Copilot to accomplish tasks
• Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.
• Demonstrated skills using code repositories like GitHub.
• Experience with JIRA for project management and defect tracking.
• Experience leading ambiguous situations, dealing with IT issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure project deliverables on time and within budget.
• Experience with a variety of test tools and software testing practices, including developing, implementing, maintaining and managing manual/automated testing systems and environments.
• Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills.
• Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles.
• Excellent presentation skills to present ideas and work to the team and organization.
• Experience presenting testing topics to quality assurance peer group internal and external to work.
• Insightful and logical problem isolation and solving skills.
• Results driven and goals-oriented.
• Walking, seating, talking, working on a computer, using a phone.
• Perform in a very focused and methodical manner with good time management skills.
• Able to independently adapt and thrive through change.
• Ability to lead projects individually and mentor team members.
• Ability to lead and take ownership of testing process and implement them.
• Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to handle multiple large projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.

Must haves:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.