Questrade

What’s in it for you as an employee of QFG?

• Health & wellbeing resources and programs 
• Paid vacation, personal, and sick days for work-life balance
• Competitive compensation and benefits packages
• Work-life balance 
• Career growth and development opportunities
• Opportunities to contribute to community causes
• Work with diverse team members in an inclusive and collaborative environment

We’re looking for our next Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. Could It Be You?

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will provide expertise in the area of QA activities for applications developed by the Questrade Technology Group (QTG), with particular focus on the trading platform, Microservices and high volume data flow and transactions. This individual will be allocated as part of a team following agile methodologies such as SCRUM.

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer will be an individual very interested in technology, particularly backend services and client/server applications. Enjoys being part of a team who builds great tools using leading edge technologies. This individual understands the concept of testability and will work together with developers and designers, providing input into their work to ensure the final product can be tested efficiently using either manual or automated approaches.

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In this role, responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Write test plans and test cases throughout the development lifecycle
• Ensure test plans thoroughly cover all requirements and use cases
• Plan, schedule and perform manual and automated software tests
• Develop automated regression test suites using automated testing tools
• Foster a continuous improvement approach to QA activities
• Review tools implementations and encourage best practices and sound design principles while remaining practical and deadline driven
• Work closely with development to perform early testing on components prior to integration builds
• Assists and actively participates in the communication between local and offshore development and QA teams, ensuring knowledge is shared efficiently
• Manage defect tracking; monitor and report results
• Report QA status, as appropriate, to keep project stakeholders informed on deliverables and timelines
• Train other departments on the use of custom developed tools
• Other duties as assigned

So are YOU our next Senior Quality Assurance Engineer? You are if you…

• BS in computer science or related field
• Minimum of 7 years experience as QA Engineering role
• Solid knowledge of quality assurance techniques, testing concepts, methodologies and tools
• Expert ability to apply quality assurance knowledge to in-depth testing and test plans.
• Experience in automation testing of microservices and backend services
• Experience with developing in C# (.NET)
• Experience in testing REST APIs with Postman or other tools
• Advanced understanding of automation testing methodologies
• Knowledge of software development life cycle, methodologies and testing
• Experience with cloud technologies and modern pipelines
• Ability to apply concepts of unit, system, regression, product, integration and acceptance testing
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to investigate and research multiple sources
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Excellent interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
• Knowledge of trading systems and trading concepts, particularly within the equities realm, is considered an asset
• Experience with testing high performance systems is an asset

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