QA Engineer Needed for a Great Employer

Our client is a successful mid-size software company which fosters an amazing work environment and is located in the heart of downtown Toronto. They have engaged ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to help them recruit a QA Engineer. ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Recruitment Augmentation.

As a Platform QA Engineer you will be responsible for working side-by-side with developers, product owners and scrum masters to drive quality and assess release risk. This is a new strategically important role to the company's long term growth plans. Our client would love to meet you if you are an experienced, hands-on QA Engineer who believes in automated testing and wants to be a key participant in collaboratively driving the success of this greenfield opportunity.

Reports To:

• Platform Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Guiding Product Managers in the art of authoring stories for which automated acceptance tests can be written
• Coaching developers to create testable software
• Identifying, quantifying and communicating the risk of every release
• Writing automated integration, load and stress tests
• Defining metrics that quantify product quality
• Evolving development processes to drive increased levels of product quality

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience as a QA Engineer ideally in an Agile environment
• Deep experience and commitment to automated testing and continuous integration
• Exceptionally comfortable writing automated tests using your high level language of choice – Java or Python preferred
• SQL database development experience is a must and NoSQL highly desirable
• Understanding of and experience using RESTful APIs is highly desirable
• Experience with transactional e-commerce platforms are preferred
• Very strong communication and exceptionally strong problem solving skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

Benefits & Perks:

• Casual dress, every day of the week!
• Beer cart Fridays: free beer and snacks!
• Awesome loft-like workspace, with ping pong, foosball, lunch room and a rooftop patio
• Flexible work hours
• Team events: bowling, paintball, drinks, patio potluck
• Great central location downtown, in the trendy Entertainment District
• Opportunities to continuously challenge yourself, innovate and improve