Quality Engineer II (Guidewire)

TD•Montreal, QC

11d•CA$81,600 - CA$115,200•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves analyzing, developing, debugging, executing, and maintaining complex automated test cases. The Quality Engineer will collaborate with Agile teams to drive test planning, preparation, and execution activities, adhering to standards for various testing phases including system testing, system integration testing, production acceptance testing, and production validation. The position requires creating manual and automation test scripts using tools like Selenium/Java and Rest assured/Parasoft SOA test, leading test planning and execution, and optimizing test assets for comprehensive coverage. Coordination with partners such as business, development, and infrastructure teams for testing is essential. The role also includes creating lean test documentation, proactively seeking continuous improvements in test coverage, execution, and automation, and implementing quality engineering best practices. Identifying automation goals, communicating progress, and driving automation to meet objectives are key responsibilities. The Quality Engineer will be responsible for all project/release testing, including integration, business acceptance, performance, operability, and deployment verification, as well as leading documentation creation and review. Prompt identification, notification, escalation, and monitoring of issues, along with recommending solutions and tracking financials, are also part of the role. The use of tools to develop and maintain virtualized services, components, and environments is expected.

Requirements

Experience in creating automation strategy and plan.
Experience in requirements analysis and provide an automation solution.
Ability to work in fast-paced environment.
Strong understanding of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices with exposure to Jenkins pipelines.
Understands the concepts of unit testing and ability to work with/Influence Dev team to shift left & implement unit testing.
Test automation experience using automation frameworks in analyzing, developing, debugging, executing and supporting complex automated test cases.
Capability of leading and executing QE activities within Agile approach.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge on Guidewire Products.
Insurance Domain knowledge.

Responsibilities

Analyze, develop, debug, execute and maintain complex automated test cases.
Work with the Agile team to drive test planning, test preparation and test execution activities in adherence to standards for system testing, system integration testing, production acceptance testing and production validation.
Create quality Manual and Automation test scripts using tools like Selenium/Java, Rest assured/Parasoft SOA test.
Lead test planning, preparation and execution activities.
Create optimized test assets and delivering holistic test coverage.
Coordinate testing planning and support with partners (e.g. business, development and Infrastructure).
Create lean test documentation as required and get sign-off (e.g. test strategies, plans, schedule, cost estimates, test cases, defect logs, test phase closure reports and entry/exit criteria).
Pro-actively look to make continuous improvements to test coverage, execution and automation.
Implement quality engineering best practices within projects.
Identify automation goals, current status and improvement and communicate with all stakeholders.
Drive automation to meet automation goals.
Be responsible for all project/ release testing (e.g. integration, business acceptance, performance, operability, deployment verification).
Lead documentation creation, review, sign-off (e.g. test strategies, plans, schedule, cost estimates, test cases, dashboards, defect logs, test phase closure reports, entry/exit criteria and gating).
Promptly identify, notify, escalate, monitor issues, recommend solutions.
Track financials.
Use tools to develop, maintain virtualized services, components, environments.