Quality Engineer - IT Sustainability

Costco Wholesale Corporation•Issaquah, WA

48d

About The Position

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees. Quality Engineers are core delivery team members responsible for the validation of functional and nonfunctional requirements implemented by a team. They are responsible for decomposing the functional and technical requirements created by Product Managers and Product Owners into test scripts. Quality Engineers raise defects as issues are identified and support the remediation process with teams. Costco is looking for an experienced, results-driven Quality Engineer to join Sustainability IT. This role will be responsible for data validation, and testing and automating data pipelines/integrations to make data available for consumption to support a diverse quality organization. Quality Engineers are also responsible for the validation of functional and non-functional requirements implemented by a team. The ideal candidate will be a technical leader with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, who works collaboratively with the scrum teams to leverage automation to assure the highest member service experience. Sustainability IT is a relatively new team at Costco focused on providing technical solutions to support Costco's Sustainability Commitment and work towards a more sustainable future for our members, employees, suppliers, shareholders, communities, and the environment. It is a fast-paced and highly visible team, supporting the business goals by being an industry leader in this space. If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies "to work for", simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

Requirements

3-5 years current and demonstrable software quality assurance hands-on experience (front-end and back-end testing).
1-5 years automation and testing experience with XML and web-based SOAP/RESTful services.
1-5 years current design and development experience in Java or C#.
2+ years development experience in any scripting language.
3-5 years' experience with Azure SQL and/or Transact-SQL.
2+ years' experience with back-end testing writing SQL queries and testing stored procedures.
2+ years' experience using automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, etc.
2+ years' experience with GCP, BigQuery, Looker Studio, and PowerBI.
Knowledge of ETL tools like IICS and/or Azure data tools like Azure DataFactory.
Good understanding of TCP/IP networking (proxies, firewalls, etc.), and common web technologies (HTTP, REST, Web Services, XML/XPath, etc.).
Experience with typical multi-tier application architecture (presentation, logic, data).
Experience in a multi-cloud environment (like Azure, GCP etc.)
Proactive attitude, strong problem solving and decision-making skills.
Proven ability to drill down into results and complete deep-dive root-cause analysis.
Knowledge of database servers, web servers, application servers, and load balancer.
Proficient with the following tools: Jenkins, Splunk, SoapUI, Fiddler, Nessus, JVM & SQL Server.
Experience working with architects, developers, and QA across multiple teams.
Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices in a Quality Engineer role.
Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to multitask and prioritize work effectively in a fast-paced working environment.
Customer-centric focus and dedicated to business partnership.
Responsible, conscientious, organized, self-motivated, and able to work with limited supervision.
Computer Science and engineering skills and equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

2+ years' experience monitoring tools and usage for non-functional testing such as Splunk and Dynatrace/APM.
Experience working with Git, JDBC, Splunk.
Familiarity with Service Oriented/Microservices architectures.
Appreciation for CI/CD and DevOps.
Experience with UI automation tools such as Selenium web driver.
Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Responsibilities

Defines the testing strategy and approach to validate new or enhanced functionality implemented by teams.
Develops manual test cases for all functional and non-functional requirements and collaborates with development team members to identify candidates for test case automation.
Creates and executes manual and automated test scripts to validate the acceptance criteria defined within the epics and user stories implemented by team members.
Collaborates with team members to decompose functional and nonfunctional requirements into test scripts and scenarios.
Develops functional test plans for complex systems.
Designs and develops high quality test automation frameworks, from which others can create repeatable automated tests.
Works with engineers to identify deficiencies within a product/application's code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
Implements API Level Automation using various technologies and tools.
Develops complex SQL against a variety of data sources.
Leverages/Implements data pipelines to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and optimized for analysis.
Analyzes, identifies, and validates functional aspects of a shared service, supporting multiple applications.
Raises the standards for QA practices and stays up-to-date with the latest technologies both in the Company and industry and utilizes them to good effect.
Identifies test tools and processes to monitor, maintain, and report defects in the application.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

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