Intermediate Test Automation Engineer (QA)

About Reach

At Reach, we believe that the global ecommerce space is ripe for disruption. Our strategic partnerships with currency exchange providers allow us to offer direct and guaranteed, real-time currency exchange rates. We want to help retailers grow; we understand global consumers and how changes in their shopping experience affect your business. At Reach, we are constantly improving to support ever-changing local markets and help serve our clients shoppers better.

Position Overview

We re looking for a Quality Assurance professional to join our Application Integration team, reporting to the Manager of Workflow Automation. You will work closely with your team and business stakeholders to assist in analyzing, designing, and automating the testing of new features, integrations, and workflows.

Who You Are:

• Curious nature. You enjoy learning and seek to understand.
• Doer mentality. You re a self-starter who takes initiative and is self-motivated to get the job done.
• Flexible attitude. As things change, you adapt and pivot based on the needs of the company.
• Ownership mindset. You hold yourself accountable and take ownership of your work.
• Organizationally adept and attention to detail oriented.
• No ego. You have a willingness to take on any task and help out however is required.
• Team player approach. You can work with anyone in a way that works for them no matter who they are or their place in the organization.
• Enthusiastic. You re looking for an interesting career rather than clocking in and out every day.
• Data driven. We deal with large amounts of data on a day to day basis - and it doesn t fit in an excel sheet.
• Systems thinker. We don t want to fight fires forever. How do we build scalable systems that enable us - and you - to focus on the bigger picture?

You Will:

• Work alongside the workflow automation team to build an automated test suite/system to verify our workflows created in Workato;
• Institute best practices when it comes to both testing Workflow automation as well as Restful APIs developed by the team;
• Advocate for a test-first mindset by working with development teams to create and maintain automated tests for technology changes, new product features, enhancements, and defect fixes to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle;
• Identify and evaluate additional opportunities for test automation and tooling;
• Assist in defect management, including identifying, prioritizing, and triaging issues;
• Troubleshoot, isolate and verify issues encountered during automated test runs and assist in problem-solving;
• Document testing processes and standards to be used across Application Integration Services and Workflow development teams.

Requirements

Must Have Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in test automation with a strong foundation of QA methodologies, principles, and best practices;
• Hands-on API automation testing experience with experience in scripting technologies such as JavaScript;
• Experience with workflow automation tools such as Workato, UI Path, Blue Prism, etc;
• Good working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases. Experience with Snowflake is a plus;
• Strong analytical skills in working with development tools, database technologies, APIs, and structured and unstructured datasets;
• Continuous improvement mindset, taking the initiative to research and adapt new technologies and methodologies;
• Have the ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly;

• Practical experience with workflow or decision rules engines;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills allowing you to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams;
• Experience writing tests for workflow automation;
• Experience with one or more of the following tools:
• RestAssured
• Junit
• TestContainers
• TestCafe
• Event-Driven Architecture

Nice to Have Requirements:

• Experience in a technology start up environment;
• Experience working in fintech/e-commerce;
• Experience speaking and presenting to business stakeholders;
• Experience mentoring and supporting other QAs.

Benefits

What s in it for you?

• Competitive salary;
• Generous paid time off;
• Group benefits and RRSP matching;
• Annual professional development allotment;
• Great working culture and supportive multi-national team;

Our Core Values

At Reach we believe that high performing teams all have common values and synergies that enable them to work well together. Some of our Core Values are:

• We value solving underlying problems and delivering outcomes,
• We value being able to make executive decisions while considering input from multiple sources,
• We value taking action over getting stuck in planning,
• We value taking chances and failing fast,
• We value teamwork over individual accomplishments,
• We value optimizing time to value and achieving outcomes not checking boxes,
• We value work/life balance and a mindset of it s a marathon, not a sprint ,
• We value using the right technology to solve the right problems.

Next Steps:

At Reach, our corporate culture is very important to us. As part of our interview process, we'd like to get to know more about you. Prior to meeting with the hiring manager, we will send a couple of questions from the manager to selected candidates with a link to a video recording which only our in-house recruiter and hiring manager will see. While we recognize the one-way video may not be the preferred interview style, compared to an in-depth initial conversation, it is meant to show us how you think through problems rather than be impersonal. We appreciate your interest in joining Reach!