Manager, Quality Assurance

Job Description:

Manage, develop, and lead the design and implementation of functional and automated test processes to ensure continuous improvement of Costco's travel booking software applications. Lead development and execution of team's strategic vision, oversee team performance and deliverables, and manage resources and day-to-day operations. Coordinate delivery of sprint stories following Agile model and methodologies. Conduct automation of test suites review. Design test plans integrated with Selenium and Rest Assured. Monitor change management and deployment configurations across multiple environments. Oversee post-production code merge working closely with Development team. Plan and coordinate test design planning meetings with stakeholders. Drive adoption of standards and best practices for software testing and automation integration. Discover problems, analyze, and mitigate quality risks. Telecommuting permitted up to 20% within the same MSA.

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Primary Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: Three years of experience in:
  • Understanding and Analyzing the Requirements, including participating in requirements meeting with Business Analysts and Solution Architects to understand the business process flow;
  • Client Interaction, including attending project estimation meetings, status reporting, and highlighting issues, risks, and limitations for the present and future deliverables;
  • Analysis & Automation Framework Design, including preparing Detailed Design Specifications and coordinating with development teams of interfacing applications to develop Interface automation Programs; Reviewing and baselining the Detailed Design Specifications (DDS); and Map testing components with User;
  • Development of automation scripts and Reviews, including upgrading the existing application by writing automated test scripts to perform the unit testing of critical programs; and conducting review of components developed by peer automation test programmers and offshore to ensure the deliverables;
  • Handset/Mobile application testing with tracking and retesting of defects; Creating test data and maintaining test environment for System Testing team; Reporting and keeping track of the status of all defects opened during test execution; Prioritizing and troubleshooting defects and rerunning automated test scripts when defects gets corrected; Performing functional testing to ensure that integrated functions are working correctly; and Analyzing and debugging of the issues during any stage of the development and code migration;
  • Java and Eclipse;
  • Perfecto cloud API;
  • Appium;
  • Building test automation frameworks;
  • CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) using Maven or Jenkins; and
  • Website Performance Testing using JMeter.

Alternative Requirements:

• Experience: Five years of experience in:
  • Understanding and Analyzing the Requirements, including participating in requirements meeting with Business Analysts and Solution Architects to understand the business process flow;
  • Client Interaction, including attending project estimation meetings, status reporting, and highlighting issues, risks, and limitations for the present and future deliverables;
  • Analysis & Automation Framework Design, including preparing Detailed Design Specifications and coordinating with development teams of interfacing applications to develop Interface automation Programs; Reviewing and baselining the Detailed Design Specifications (DDS); and Map testing components with User;
  • Development of automation scripts and Reviews, including upgrading the existing application by writing automated test scripts to perform the unit testing of critical programs; and conducting review of components developed by peer automation test programmers and offshore to ensure the deliverables;
  • Handset/Mobile application testing with tracking and retesting of defects; Creating test data and maintaining test environment for System Testing team; Reporting and keeping track of the status of all defects opened during test execution; Prioritizing and troubleshooting defects and rerunning automated test scripts when defects gets corrected; Performing functional testing to ensure that integrated functions are working correctly; and Analyzing and debugging of the issues during any stage of the development and code migration;
  • Java and Eclipse;
  • Perfecto cloud API;
  • Appium;
  • Building test automation frameworks;
  • CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) using Maven or Jenkins; and
  • Website Performance Testing using JMeter.

CWC Travel, Inc. (dba Costco Travel)

Position location: Issaquah, WA

Salary Range: $160,000 - $180,000 per year

Benefits: 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.