Quality Assurance Analyst - POS Fuel Systems

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 Assurance Analysts are responsible for ensuring quality across team/domain specific applications. This is accomplished through: software/web testing; evaluating, and approving of development tasks as completed for their team/domain; developing, modifying and executing software strategies and test plans; analyzing and writing test standards and procedures; maintaining documentation of test results to assist in debugging; and modification of software.

The Point of Sale Quality Assurance Analyst position is responsible for adhering to standardized QA process, policies and documentation standards, overseeing all aspects of project testing and test environment.  This position will work with a team consisting of Architect, System Analyst, Product Owner, Delivery Manager and the vendors.  In addition, this position will collaborate with teams across the enterprise.

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

• Designs, develops, and executes software test strategies, test plans and test scripts.  

• Confirms accuracy and completeness of functional, integration, system, end to end,  and acceptance test plans.

• Executes manual software tests of complex Point of sale hardware and software systems.

• Executes and validates payments test cases for contact and contactless EMV transactions with POS hardware.

• Participates in requirements & use case reviews.

• Participates in the defect triage process, provides reports on defect tracking, and escalates technical issues as needed.

• Responsible for creating and gaining project approval on project test plans.

• Responsible for overseeing or generating all QA-related documentation.

• Provides accurate estimates for QA resources and testing schedules.

• Ensures adherence to standardized QA policies, processes and documentation standards.

• Coordinates in-house, external and UAT testing and certification processes.

• Collaborates with the development teams to resolve defects uncovered during testing cycles.

• Attends daily stand up meetings and provides testing status.

• Creates weekly QA status reports.

• Seeks opportunities to automate, document, share, educate, and improve processes where appropriate.

• Works well independently and in a team environment.

• Follows standards in accordance with company policy and regulation.

REQUIRED

• Minimum 5 years’ software quality assurance experience.

• Familiarity with test management tool such as HP Octance, Jira.

• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.