Quality Engineer - Merchandise Solutions

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 Eighth in Forbes “World’s Best Employers” .

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.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

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.

The Costco Merchandise Solutions Quality Assurance team is seeking a Quality Engineer to augment a highly engaged and effective team responsible for overall quality of Merchandising Applications.This role will be responsible for design, coding, testing, and implementing solutions to automate the testing activities of this team.The ideal candidate will be a technical leader with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, who work collaboratively with the scrum teams to assure the highest member service experience.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

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.)
• 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 non-functional 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.
• Shares test automation practices with engineers to promote “shift left” testing disciplines and practices (incorporate testing earlier in development) within a team.
• Identifies candidates for test case automation through team collaboration, designs and codes.
• Identifies risks impacting the timely delivery of a given product and collaborates with team members to prepare mitigation strategies.
• Collaborates with matrix teams (e.g., Product Owners, System Analysts, DevOps Engineers, and Systems Architects) to define the automating testing approach.
• Assists projects, functions, or teams in planning quality management for their area of responsibility.
• Assists in the development of new or improved practices and organizational processes or standards.
• Facilitates localized improvements to the quality system or services.
• Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors moderately complex programs/scripts.
  
  

Required

• 2+ years’ recent hands-on experience with designing, coding, and executing automated test solutions using Selenium, Java and TestNg. Comparable experience with C#, Ranorex or equivalent may be considered.
• 2+ years using API automation experience using postman or equivalent tools.
• 1+ years’ experience in writing complex SQL along with major RDBMS knowledge such as DB2, MS SQL, or Oracle.
• Solid proficiency in web technologies, including: HTML, CSS, client scripting, DOM interrogation and manipulation.
• Must have a strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Excellent skills in analysis, problem solving, troubleshooting, debugging and code maintenance.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and to effectively multitask.
• Willingness and ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion with minimal guidance.
• Innovative, creative, and responsive team player with a solid work ethic and strong sense of urgency.
  
  

Recommended

• Experience with Azure and Angular UI
• Hands-on experience in software quality assurance testing, with a sound understanding of QA processes and methodologies.
• Excellent lead/coaching skills to mentor members of the QA/QE team.
  
  

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume
  
  

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Pay Ranges

Level 1 - $85,000 - $110,000

Level 2 - $105,000 - $135,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

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 IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.