Costco Wholesale hiring Quality Engineer – IT Payments in Seattle, Washington, United States | LinkedIn (2024)

Costco 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 Wholesale IT family. Costco 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 non-functional 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.

Costco’s Payments team is looking for a highly ambitious, self-motivated, and experienced Quality Engineer to join its new IT Payments team. A key role on the team, the Quality Engineer combines their demonstrated passion for quality with their strong technical skills. The ideal candidate will have significant experience testing large scale, multi-system integrated applications in a fast-paced agile environment. This person should be an analytical and logical thinker who is well organized and able to meet milestones and deadlines. Your experience will demonstrate that you have a solid understanding of Quality Assurance best practices, know where and when to apply them, and know when flexibility within those guidelines is acceptable. The candidate must have a clear understanding of the software development methodologies and will have consistently delivered high quality software solutions using various methodologies.

The IT Payments Team is dedicated to providing Costco with world-class payment solutions to our global business worldwide. Our mission is to create a seamless and secure payment experience for our members while maximizing revenue and minimizing risk and provide payments expertise to support the growth and changing needs of the business.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Defines the testing strategy and approach to validate new or enhanced functionality implemented by teams.
• Collaborates with team members to decompose functional and non-functional 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.
• Develops manual test cases for all functional and non-functional requirements and collaborates with development team members to identify candidates for test case automation.
• 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 non-functional 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.
• Performs manual Functional validation.
• Collaborates with the development team to identify test scenarios and create test cases for automation.
• Creates and executes project test plans, test cases, automation, and all QA-related collateral and documentation for a feature or product area.
• Provides accurate estimates for projects, including QA resourcing and testing schedules.
• Executes testing directly and/or leveraging offshore resources while ensuring accurate results, identifying failure patterns, and supports bug triage processes to bring issues to closure.
• Familiar with source code, version management, and code deployment standards, and utilizes this knowledge to ensure that QA processes and procedures for test environments are followed and that the integrity of the various environments are not compromised.
• Mentors and develops other team members.
• Executes and monitors automated test scripts and reports defects to the development team.
• Develops and maintains testing documentation and reports.
• Improves testing processes and automation frameworks.
• Stays up-to-date with the latest mobile testing trends, tools, and technologies.
• Participates in code reviews and contributes to the overall quality of the application.

Required

• 5+ years’ software quality assurance engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ hands-on experience using industry standard software QA tools.
• Proficiency in multiple test automation tools and frameworks.
• Ability to perform API level testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Appium, Selenium, or similar.
• Experience with test automation scripting using C#.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Recommended

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Understanding of web services, SOAP, REST, and XML concepts and technologies.
• Experience with programming languages C#, Java, JavaScript, etc. in the test automation process.
• Experience using Automation tools like Ranorex, Jenkins, SauceLabs, Splunk, Selenium etc.
• SQA experience working within an iterative development framework.
• Knowledge and experience with AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
• Knowledge and experience with JSON and XML web-based services.
• Programming knowledge and experience.
• History of delivering quality software solutions; ability to apply experience to new areas.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Pay RangesLevel 2 - $ 105,000 - $135,000

Level 3 - $ 130,000 - $160,000

Level SR - $ 150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) Eligible

Level STAFF - $ 180,000 -$225,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) Eligible

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 reimbursem*nt 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.