QA Automation Engineer
- Jun 12, 2024
- full-time
- Remote, Remote. Canada
At Metalab, we connect imagination to reality, designing, building, and shipping some of the world’s most beloved products. Founders at early-stage startups hire us to help build businesses from scratch, and leaders at global enterprises hire us to explore new technologies and launch new products.
About the role
We’re seeking a QA Automation Engineer to enhance our Engineering Team’s capabilities in delivering high-quality software solutions. Our QA Automation Engineers work closely with our development team to build end-to-end test automations that protect our releases against possible regressions.
Join our team and be at the forefront of ensuring top-notch software quality! You'll work closely with our engineers and QA specialists to create innovative test strategies and build automated tests that keep our releases flawless. Plus, you'll contribute to maintaining test automation in our CI/CD pipelines and help troubleshoot system issues like a pro. If you love quality and automation and are always pushing to improve, we want you and us to co-create amazing software!
What you’ll do
- Drive the software quality assurance life cycle within an Agile process
- Establish and coordinate test strategies with development/product teams
- Design and implement test plans and test cases
- Develop and execute automated UI and functional tests
- Enhance and maintain automated CI flows
- Troubleshoot issues in the systems and interfaces that are being tested
Requirements
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of experience as a Software Development Engineer in QA Automation
- Proficiency in Typescript
- Experience with React and React Native application testing using Selenium, Mocha, and Chai
- Experience testing REST and GQL backend services
- Experience implementing test automation as part of a continuous integration process
- Familiarity with version control, defect tracking, and test management tools (GIT, Github Actions, JIRA)
- Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases
This is a one-year contract position; the person in this role will be paid an hourly wage.
We will honor local holidays and grant company-wide holidays to the contractor in this position.
Location & Working Hours
Our philosophy is simple: We hire people from all over the world. If you have the skills, strong wifi and excitement to work with us, we’d love to hear from you. For this role, we are open to remote candidates located within CST to BRT time zones.
Equal opportunity employer
Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to only apply for a job when they meet every single criteria. Does this role sound like it was made for you, yet you don’t check every box? Reach out anyway! We’re an equal opportunity employer and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for employees from all walks of life. We hire based on talent, and we’re proud of our global perspective.
Metalab
Remote, Remote. Canada
