Quality Engineer - Costco Travel at Costco in Issaquah, WA

Costco Travel 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 Travel IT family. Costco Travel 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.

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ROLE

● 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

● 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

● Designs, develops, and executes manual automated software test strategies, plans, and test cases.

● Designs, codes, and documents automated test cases within the defined framework to satisfy business requirements and client/project expectations using primarily Selenium with Java.

● Analyzes and determines test dependencies including QA environment, QA tools, training, build and deployment plans, and communication processes.

● Participates in grooming, planning, and retrospective meetings.

● Develops and communicates accurate estimates based as requested by the project/management team.

● Troubleshoots test runs and environments. Identifies and resolves problems.

● Executes automated test scripts, researches test run failures, and reports defects and results.

REQUIRED

● 4+ years’ in QA domain designing, developing, and executing both manual/automated tests.

● 2+ years’ experience creating effective robust UI automation testing using Selenium or similar.

● Recent development experience in Java (or similar).

● Experience in API testing or another back-end testing.

● Knowledge and understanding of typical multi-tier application architecture (presentation, service, data).

● Experience with Microsoft SQL or similar relational database.

● Knowledge of XML/JSON and web-based SOAP/RESTful services.

● Desire for being an active participant of a team willing to continually self-assess and improve.

● Self-driven continuous learning mindset.

● Experience working in a Scrum or other Agile environment.

● Inventive problem solver.

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.

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