Sr Test Engineer

 

At Nutrien, our purpose is Feeding the Future and we do so with safety, inclusion, integrity and results as our core values. Nothing is more important than sending our people home safe, every day.

 

Nutrien Ag Solutions is the retail division of Nutrien™, the largest crop inputs company in the world. As part of our collective mission of Feeding the Future, Nutrien Ag Solutions provides full-acre solutions through our trusted crop consultants at more than 2,000 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Australia. For more than 150 years, we have been helping growers achieve the highest yields with a wide selection of products, including our proprietary brands: Loveland Products, Inc.; Proven®Seed and Dyna-Gro®Seed; as well as financial, custom application and precision ag services.

 

We harvest the best. Diverse views and experience make us strong. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, who are collaborative team players, who deliver on their commitments, act with integrity, and who support inclusion.

 

Working at Nutrien Ag Solutions will provide you an opportunity to help us raise the expectation of what an agriculture company can be, and grow your career.

 

 

Senior Test Engineers collaborate with product owners, developers, and end users throughout the product development lifecycle to ensure that the product meets both customer-stated requirements and additional quality requirements. The Senior Test Engineer will have good experience with QA best practices and QA-related functions; including, but not limited to vetting requirements; creating test plans, test data and test cases; executing test cases; creating automation scripts; and reviewing regression results to quickly determine if our products are ready for market. The Senior Test Engineer will be responsible for both manual testing and automated testing.

 

What you will do:

 

• Be a self-starter and proactively solve problems and work with minimal supervision. 
• Advocate on behalf of the customer when assessing product quality and code quality. 
• Drive collaborative discussions to promote understanding of product quality.
• Actively participate in all scrum rituals; stand ups, sprint planning, refinement, retrospective
• Play an active role in the refinement and estimation of features and user stories ensuring acceptance criteria is well defined and QA effort is accurately estimated
• Develop and execute tests, analyze results, and communicate findings 
• Report issues and drive defect triage, escalation, re-testing, and issue resolution
• Partner with developers and other test engineers to develop and review code and test cases 
• Collaborate with developers to achieve a higher level of code coverage
• Build test automation artifacts that support and scale Continuous Integration & Continuous Testing  
• Test new and existing code to uncover defects with the ability to spot defect trends or product risks and assist in problem-solving code issues and product impediments
• Collaborate with Product Owners to define acceptance tests and “Done” criteria
• Partner with UX to ensure consistent user experience across the product 
• Contribute to the test automation technology stack 
• Lead testing, validation, and sign-off for software product development and release readiness within product release and Agile sprint cadence
• Mentor and coach less experienced team members 
• Monitor software process deficiencies and prioritizes improvements
• Other duties as required

What you will bring:

 

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline; experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
• Prior software development experience or equivalent test engineering experience required. 
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Test Development required; 7+ years of experience strongly preferred with an emphasis on Test Automation and managing test projects. 
• Working experience with programming languages, test-oriented development tools, and methodologies such as: TDD or BDD, Postman, Java, JavaScript, Python, Selenium (WebDriverIO), Appium (Mobile Automation), Jenkins / Travis CI / Circle CI (build & deployment) and code repository (GitHub).
• Knowledge of quality assurance (QA) methodology, QA best practices, & software development processes (Agile, Scrum, CI/CD)
• Extensive experience with manual and automation testing in a wide variety of projects and testing types including functional, regression, system, integration, end-to-end, boundary, data integrity, exploratory, performance, API, compatibility, usability, reliability, and portability
• Techn