Developer - Software Tester

WESCO Distribution; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading distribution company in Toronto is seeking a Developer - Software Tester to enhance their software functions with a focus on automation and manual testing. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, with 2+ years of relevant experience, and strong skills in Java and test automation frameworks. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and the ability to travel up to 25%. Competitive salary and benefits package offered.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in Software Development & Quality Assurance.
• Strong experience in Agile software development process.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute functional test scenarios from user stories.
• Perform manual testing and review functional features.
• Collaborate with scrum team on testing processes.
• Create automation scripts using Serenity framework.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis for failed test scripts.

Skills

Test automation

API testing

Agile methodology

Clear test case writing

Java programming

Selenium

Collaboration

DevOps

Behavior Driven Development

Test Driven Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Master's Degree preferred

Tools

Serenity framework

JIRA

Rest Assured

Postman

GitHub

Maven

Job description

As a Developer - Software Tester, you will be responsible for contributing measurable values to enable the software development team to deliver new and enhanced features to our customers. You will be accountable for functional testing and test automation. You will program test automation frameworks (CI/CD), develop and execute test automation scripts. You will be responsible for selecting testing tools and providing test automation solutions to assist our manual testing processes.

Responsibilities

• Apply application requirements, create, and execute functional test scenarios from user stories
• Perform manual testing, review functional features to determine feasible regression test cases, test automation coverage
• Collaborate with the scrum team, participate in scrum activities such as scrum meetings, sprint refinement, sprint planning, BIG ROOM planning and retro
• Create automation scripts using Serenity framework, manage/maintain all regression execution on feature levels.
• Setup Serenity framework to implement test automation using the framework across Mobile, Desktop devices.
• Work directly with the DevOps to support test automation to scale up for larger modules or components of software apps; champion Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) and product quality.
• Perform Proof of Concept (POC) on any subjects relate to testing, test automation, provide recommendations for action steps
• Collaborate on technical matters with SDET, Developer, and DevOps when problem arise and be able to provide solutions to resolve technical issues
• Provide valuable feedback for teammates when conducting peer code-reviews to improve quality of code for better test validation coverage
• Create run Cron jobs to auto schedule test automation scripts
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for fail test scripts and maintain test automation scripts
• Demo the automation scripts to teammates and seek approval when committing code
• Create test automation scripts to test API calls with Rest Assured, Postman
• Research test tools, methodologies, and trends as part of the continual quality improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology or related field required; Master's Degree preferred
• 2+ years of experience in Software Development & Quality Assurance
• Experience in Serenity framework
• Strong experience in writing clear, concise test case
• Strong experience with Agile software development process and DevOps
• Strong programming skill in Java, Selenium
• Knowledge of programming languages and process management methodology
• Good exposure to Behavior Driven Development or Test-Driven Development and experience in programming and testing
• Experience with JIRA
• Intermediate skill level of understanding of CICD, GitHub, Maven, Rest Assure API and DOM Concepts
• The ability to recognize risks and errors in an application
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 25%