Quality Engineer - Costco Travel

Costco Wholesale Corporation • Issaquah, WA

47d • $105,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Costco Travel 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 Travel 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 Owners and Systems Analysts into test scripts. Quality Engineers raise defects as issues are identified and support the remediation process with teams. Costco Travel is looking for a dedicated and experienced Software Quality Engineer to join its Online Member Experience quality team. This Quality Engineer will be responsible for leading several SDETs and QAEs across multiple scrum teams. 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

• 1-3 years of current and demonstrable experience as an SDET in API/UI.
• 1-3 years of automation and testing experience with XML and web-based SOAP/RESTful services.
• 1-3 years of current design and development experience in Java or C#.
• Minimum 1 year of development experience in any scripting language.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with Microsoft SQL and/or Transact-SQL.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with backend testing writing SQL queries and testing Stored Procedures.
• Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices in an SDET role.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
• Computer Science and engineering skills and equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Appreciation for CI/CD and DevOps.
• Experience working with Maven, Git, JDBC, Splunk.
• Experience in Unit Testing frameworks like Junit/TestNG.
• Experience with UI automation tools, ideally Selenium Web Driver.
• Testing and automation experience MS VSTS technology stack including TFS, MTM, and Lab Center.
• Tomcat/Apache knowledge.
• Travel industry knowledge.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficient in Microsoft Workspace applications, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

Responsibilities

• Defines the testing strategy and approach to validate new or enhanced functionality implemented by teams
• Collaborates with team members to decompose functional and nonfunctional requirements into test scripts and scenarios
• Develops functional test plans for complex systems.
• Tests required code changes while working closely with developers and product owners.
• Designs and develops high quality test automation, from which others can create repeatable automated tests.
• Generates API Level Automation using various technologies and tools.
• Analyzes, identifies, and validates functional aspects of a shared service, supporting multiple downstream systems.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees