Senior QA Analyst - Fixed-term

Are you passionate about leadership and being a quality champion for your team? Do you enjoy troubleshooting and debugging issues and providing solutions? If yes, we are looking for someone like you to join our team!

As a senior QA analyst in this 12-months fixed-term role, you will be designing and documenting test scenarios, identifying target test items, scripting automated tests, and testing new features from the design stage all the way through to deployment. You will also ensure our teams are producing high quality deliverables.

The successful candidate must be located in the Greater Vancouver area, BC, where we prioritize remote work, with in-person meetings five times per quarter for strategic, collaborative, and social purposes.

Apply now and grow your career with our technology team as a senior QA analyst.

What you'll do as a senior QA analyst:

  • Determining the requirements for deploying new features and functions to developer and test environments.
  • Analyzing and identifying gaps in test coverage, and designing test cases and test scenarios.
  • Being the quality champion by ensuring the team is following the proper acceptance criteria, leveraging the right test cases, and adhering to QA standards.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams (onshore/offshore teams).
  • Validating work in production and signing off on deployments.
  • Documenting, triaging, investigating, and re-testing bugs and failures.
  • Automation scripting and maintenance, as well as running the execution and analyzing the results.
What we’re looking for:
  • 5+ years of experience in planning, designing, developing, and testing software.
  • 2+ years of leadership experience with initiatives and/or projects.
  • 2+ years of experience creating automation in Java or another similar language.
  • 2+ years of test automation experience with Java, Groovy, Selenium, or any relevant scripting language.
  • Hands on experience with automation testing across API’s, UI, micro services, frontend and backend systems.
  • Comprehension of data structures, data manipulation and system process flows.
  • Solid understanding of how to apply QA methodologies and processes.
  • Experience working in an agile/scrum environment.
  • Experience in the retail or Ecommerce domains would be considered an asset.
Why you’ll love it here:
  • Remote-first work environment.
  • Employee discounts on awesome tech from day one.
  • Health benefits and wellness program.
  • Training programs to build new and transferable skills.
About Best Buy As Canada's destination for the coolest tech, Best Buy offers one of the best work environments in the country! Our culture is one of inclusivity and belonging and provides employees an environment where they can bring their whole selves to work.

We believe in a fair and inclusive hiring process. We encourage you to apply if you may not meet all the requirements.

Join our amazing team!

We are looking for people just like you.

Annualized Compensation Range

$80,700.00 - $84,500.00

Starting pay offered will consider skills and experience. Your pay can grow as you build your career with us. Suite 102 - 425 West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1L3

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