Quality Engineer - Data Analytics

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.

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 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.

The Quality Engineer is responsible for the quality of data products and analytics solutions and works collaboratively with the engineering team and product owner as part of the core delivery team. At Costco, we are on a mission to significantly leverage data to provide better products and services for our members. This role is focused on quality engineering to build, execute, and automate test scripts to ensure high quality of every single data and analytics solution that is built and delivered by the engineering team.

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ROLE

●      Defines the testing strategy and approach to validate new or enhanced functionality implemented by teams.

●      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.

●      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.

●      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.

●      Builds automated test framework and tools to automate the regression testing and perform functional, integration and load testing across Data Platform services and applications.

●      Maintains the automated testing suite and accompanying framework for a given product.

●      Shares test automation practices with engineers to promote “shift left” testing disciplines and practices (incorporate testing earlier in development) within a team.

●      Collaborates with product team members (e.g., Product Owners, Data architects, and Engineers) to define the automating testing approach/strategy for a given product/application.

●      Collaborates with team members (e.g., DevOps Engineers, Data architects) to incorporate new automated test scripts into the continuous integration pipeline.

●      Creates and executes test cases to verify that data meets quality standards and business requirements.

●      Conducts regular checks and audits to identify data issues like inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and missing values.

●      Documents data quality findings and providing reports to leadership and stakeholders.

●      Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form.

REQUIRED

●      5+ years’ software quality assurance engineering experience.

●      Proficiency in automation scripting and organizing test assets in the Agile work environment.

●      Proficiency in multiple test automation tools and frameworks.

●      Ability to drive and deliver quality through process, instrumentation, and testing.

●      Experience in developing test strategies, test plans, and test cases.

Recommended

●      BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent software/services experience.

●      Experience working with Azure DevOps.

●      Exposure to the retail industry.

●      Experience with UX, BI solutions, such as Power BI, Looker Studio.

●      Experience working with Data Engineering technologies - GCP/Azure.

●      Experience working in GCP/Azure data platforms and systems.

●      Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

●      Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents

●      Cover Letter

●      Resume

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Pay Ranges: 

Level 1  - $85,000 - $110,000

Level 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 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.