The Senior QA Engineer drives quality assurance initiatives, implementing testing frameworks, collaborating across teams, and ensuring high reliability in integrated platforms.
The Senior Quality Engineer drives a shift-left quality strategy. They maintain robust automated testing frameworks, including integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance tests, ensuring API contract compliance, data integrity, and workflow consistency across both systems. Working closely with engineering, product, UX and DevOps teams, they embed quality into the CI/CD pipeline, implement observability and monitoring practices, and establish best practices for test automation and release validation. By proactively identifying potential integration risks, the Senior Quality Engineer ensures that the integrated platform delivers high reliability, scalability, and a seamless user experience.
- Lead the planning and execution of quality assurance across the integration of Actionstep’s flagship products.
- Apply an in-depth understanding of real-world product usage to evaluate fit-for-purpose and identify potential risks early
- Define testing objectives, determine critical quality aspects for stakeholders, and design comprehensive test strategies including integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance scenarios
- Participate actively in SCRUM ceremonies, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and provide technical guidance on risk, architecture, and design considerations
- Analyze requirements and system architecture to ensure thorough coverage of functional, security, and performance testing
- Develop, maintain, and execute manual and automated test cases, ensuring alignment with Actionstep’s goals and integration objectives
- Verify bug fixes, perform regression testing, and ensure changes do not introduce defects or regressions across the platform
- Drive improvements in QA processes, test automation frameworks, and observability practices, contributing to CI/CD pipeline efficiency and reliability
- Collaborate with other QA team members, fostering knowledge sharing and adoption of best practices
- Contribute to cross-team initiatives to enhance product interoperability, platform stability, and overall user experience
Requirements
A relevant tertiary qualification
- Professional software testing experience of at least 5 years
- Proven experience in quality assurance for complex web applications, ideally involving integration of multiple systems
- Strong knowledge of test planning, test case design, and test execution
- Hands-on experience with integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing
- Proficiency in test automation frameworks and scripting languages
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems and automated build/test processes
- Solid understanding of APIs, data flows, system architecture, and database structures
- Ability to analyze requirements, identify risks, and define testing objectives
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills to troubleshoot complex integration issues
Desirable:
- Knowledge of contract testing, API mocking, and advanced automation practices
- Proficiency in TypeScript and C#
- Proficiency in Playwright, Jest/Vitest and JMeter
- Experience contributing to observability, monitoring, and metrics for quality assurance
- Knowledge of security, performance, and accessibility testing best practices
Benefits
- Robust medical, dental, vision offerings
- RRSB with company match
- Flexible working and PTO
- Take your birthday off
- Frequent team-building events
- Fantastic training and development opportunities
- $110,000-130,000 CAD Salary
Top Skills
C#
Ci/Cd
Jest
Jmeter
Playwright
Test Automation Frameworks
Typescript
Vitest
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