Quality Engineer - GWS IT Hearing Aid

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.

Costco IT is seeking an individual to join our Global Hearing Aid department. This position is essential for driving the quality assurance strategy across our critical Global Warehouse Solutions units (Hearing Aid, Optical and CWT), focusing on functional and non-functional requirements validation.

This position will strategically decompose requirements (Gaps, User Stories) into comprehensive test case scenarios. Design, develop and maintain test automation and manual scripts to ensure consistent, efficient coverage. They will conduct thorough review of all release notes and follow the Costco QA Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Standards. Proactively raise defects and drive the remediation process by collaborating closely with our vendors, business partners and IT development teams to ensure timely resolution. The Global Hearing Aid Quality Engineer will have to work independently and as part of various teams in the IT Department.
 

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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.

• Provides accurate project estimates for assigned tasks as required by the Product Owner.  

• Participates in requirement gathering sessions and gives input on requirement and design documents.

• Reviews requirements for assigned projects and creates test cases scenarios as applicable.

• Works closely with the Product Ownership Team and Scrum Master on test results and testing required code changes.

• Works with off-site or Vendor Development teams to ensure software is adequately tested and up to Costco’s Business requirements. (No on-site development).

• Develops, modifies and executes manual tests for scenarios that cannot be automated.

• Develops and executes test automation scripts and extends the existing framework. 

• Manages and grooms the automated and manual test suites regularly to ensure proper balance between.

• Creates test data to support the execu