Software Engineer in Test (Contract Role)

Software Engineer in Test (Contract Role)

Waterloo, ON

We are looking for a Junior Quality Engineer who can help ensure we’re able to continue to grow our capabilities without negative impact to our passionate user base.

• Possess a drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.
• Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and can work with others at all levels.
• Effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.
• Curiosity drives you to go beyond your immediate assignments and actively learn everything you can about the systems you support. You’re not afraid to ask questions.
• Have associated technology product knowledge, payments industry knowledge and excellent communication skills

What You'll Do

• Work in an Agile Scrum environment to support quality engineering activities in the payments space
• Work with Senior QE and developers to build test plans for new functionality.
• Write automated test cases to implement test plans
• Work with globally distributed teams to engage early and provide continuous delivery of high-quality software products that delight Sony customers.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of test regression and smoke test suites.
• Act as a quality gate and provide release sign-off.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical degree, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years’ experience as an engineer in test.
• Extensive hands-on technical expertise, including experience with Java.
• Experience with all aspects of software test, including test planning, test automation, load test, failure mode test, etc.
• Experience testing RESTful web services and web applications
• Experience working with build automation and continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins).
• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, etc.)
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL and database schema designs.
• Experience reviewing logs in Splunk or similar.
• Ability to estimate effort and size of features
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience using source control (esp. Git) and bug tracking systems in a team environment

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Selenium
• Ecommerce platform domain expertise.
• Experience as a Software Developer.

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