QA Automation Engineer (Askuity division)

The Home Depot•Toronto, ON

7d•CA$55,100 - CA$62,000•Onsite

About The Position

Askuity is a Toronto-based retail analytics software company operating as a division within The Home Depot (THD). Through our supplier analytics program, Askuity’s mission is to enable suppliers and merchants at The Home Depot to make profitable, data-driven decisions and drive real-time execution. We are looking for a dynamic QA Automation Engineer, eager to deliver high quality SaaS based products. As a member of the Product Development team at Askuity, you will help design and execute test strategies to ensure delivery of high-quality software that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base.

Requirements

Problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Strong communication, written and verbal
Bachelors degree
3+ years of QA automation experience
Experience developing automation frameworks for Web based applications using tools such as WebdriverIO
Hands-on experience in creating test scripts in either TypeScript or JavaScript language
Worked as a part of an Agile team and participated in agile ceremonies like stand-ups, refinement, planning, and retrospective meetings
Strong understanding of QA concepts and testing best practices
Ability to estimate story points and write well-formed test cases based on acceptance criteria
Experience identifying test data requirements
Knowledge of Test Management tools like Test Rail, Zephyr etc.
Ability to report and track defects in JIRA or a similar tool
Hands-on experience with Distributed version control systems such as GIT and Bitbucket
Strong understanding of DB testing concepts

Nice To Haves

ISTQB certification.
Experience with API automation using tools like JMeter, Postman
Exposure, and Google GCP (nice to have)
Knowledge of CI/CD principles, CI tools like GitHub, Bitbucket pipeline (nice to have)
Knowledge of the retail domain (nice to have)
Experience testing a product based on AI/ML (nice to have)

Responsibilities

QA Automation Development and maintenance of our test automation suite
Designing and executing effective test plans to ensure consistent high-quality product delivery
Conduct thorough baseline, regression, functional, integration and post-release testing.
Identify, document and escalate defects with clear and actionable details.
Cross functional collaboration
Work with Product Owners and Developers to understand new product requirements and devise test cases to ensure coverage for acceptance criteria.
Participate in various Agile ceremonies, provide story point estimation, provide inputs during Sprint planning and Retrospectives.
Effectively communicating product quality issues and collaborating with software development to accelerate issue resolution.