Quality Engineer / Sdet - Costco Travel

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. In 2021, Costco contributed over $58 million to organizations such as United Way and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

Quality Engineers are core delivery team members responsible for the validation of functional and nonfunctional requirements implemented by a team. They are responsible for decomposing the functional and technical requirements created by Product Owners and Systems Analysts into test scripts. Quality Engineers raise defects as issues are identified and support the remediation process with teams.

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ROLE

Defines the testing strategy and approach to validate new or enhanced functionality implemented by teams.

Collaborates with team members to decompose functional and nonfunctional requirements into test scripts and scenarios.

Determines test dependencies including QA test environment, QA tools, training, build and deployment plans, intra-team dependencies, and communication processes.

Creates and executes manual and automated test scripts to validate the acceptance criteria defined within the epics and user stories implemented by team members.

Develops manual test cases for all functional and non-functional requirements and collaborates with development team members to identify candidates for test case automation.

Identifies risks impacting the timely delivery of a given product and collaborates with team members to prepare mitigation strategies.

Executes smoke, functional, integration, and non-functional test scripts as part of the product/application delivery lifecycle.

Collaborates with team members to investigate the root cause of failed manual or automated test scripts.

Creates defects with detailed information pertaining to the failed test case/scenario with supporting documentation (screenshots, environment details, log files, etc.).

Collaborates with team members to identify existing manual and automated test scripts that will be impacted through the development of new features and capabilities.

Shares feedback with the team members pertaining to the quality of sprint deliverables during retrospectives.

Manages the remediation of defects raised throughout the development lifecycle and creates supporting quality reports that are shared with stakeholders.

Collaborates with product team members (e.g., Product Owners, System Analysts) to define the automating testing approach / strategy for a given product / application.

Develops testing protocols and standards to improve end-to-end testing outcomes and shares and adopts best practices with the center of excellence (CoE) and other Quality Engineers.

Creates test data to support the execution of functional and nonfunctional testing activities.

Develops and executes automated test scripts to accelerate team velocity through the reduction of manual testing efforts.

Maintains the automated testing suite and accompanying framework for a given product.

Collaborates with team members (e.g., DevOps Engineers, Systems Architects) to incorporate new automated test scripts into the continuous integration pipeline.

Shares test automation practices with engineers to promote “shift left” testing disciplines and practices (incorporate testing earlier in development) within a team.

Develops functional test plans for complex systems.

Tests required code changes while working closely with developers and product owners.

Designs and develops high quality test automation, from which others can create repeatable automated tests.

Generates API Level Automation using various technologies and tools.

Analyzes, identifies, and validates functional aspects of a shared service, supporting multiple downstream systems.

Raises the standards for QA practices and stays up-to-date with the latest technologies, both in the Company and industry, and utilizes them to good effect.

REQUIRED

1-3 years’ of current and demonstrable experience as an SDET in API/UI.

1-3 years’ of automation and testing experience with XML and web-based SOAP/RESTful services.

1-3 years’ of current design and development experience in Java or C#.

At least 1 year of development experience in any scripting language.

At least 1 year of experience with Microsoft SQL and/or Transact-SQL.

At least 1 year of experience with backend testing writing SQL queries and testing Stored Procedures.

Proficient with Agile testing methodologies and best practices in an SDET role.

Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical, and problem solving skills.

Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.

Computer Science and engineering skills and equivalent experience.

Recommended

Excellent organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Appreciation for CI/CD and DevOps.

Experience working with Maven, Git, JDBC, Splunk.

Experience in Unit Testing frameworks such as Junit/TestNG.

Experience with UI automation tools, ideally Selenium Web Driver.

Testing and automation experience MS VSTS technology stack including TFS, MTM, and Lab Center.

Tomcat/Apache knowledge.

Travel industry knowledge.

Computer Science degree or experience working in IT Quality Assurance and Test Automation.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $102,500 - $132,500

Level 3 - $120,000 - $155,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected]

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.