Job description
Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Canada, Remote
Compensation Range:$110,000 - $140,000 CAD
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team and lead quality assurance efforts across our Enterprise and SaaS software offerings. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in manual testing, with optional experience in automation, and a proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable software solutions. While hands-on automation experience is not required, candidates must be familiar with the steps involved in automation and capable of contributing to automation strategy and planning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, and test scenarios for Web, API, and Mobile applications.
- Collaborate with developers and product managers to ensure software meets functional and quality standards.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions for product and process issues.
- Ensure compliance with security, accessibility, and performance standards.
- Optionally contribute to automation efforts by supporting the development and maintenance of test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Python, Java, or Unix Shell.
- Understand and support the automation framework (e.g., Rest Assured, Playwright, Cucumber, Appium) to ensure its efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement of QA practices.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and share best practices across global teams.
Qualifications:
- 6-8+ years of experience in software quality assurance, preferably in Agile environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Strong skills in manual testing, debugging, and test case design.
- Experience with manual testing of APIs, UIs, and backend systems.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Experience with databases (MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and application servers (Wildfly, Tomcat, JBoss).
- Proficiency in Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Understanding of automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Selenium, JMeter, Python, Java, Cucumber) even if not used hands-on.
- Exposure to containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher is a plus.
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
