Quality Engineer - Global People Systems-Enhancement & Optimization Team

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.

As a Quality Engineer, you will validate functional and non-functional requirements delivered by the team. You’ll translate specifications from Product Owners and Functional Analysts into test scripts, with a strong emphasis on test automation. You’ll identify and report defects, support remediation efforts, and drive process efficiency by adopting optimal tools, applying innovative approaches, and enhancing speed and reliability. Additionally, you’ll manage test execution in tools like ALM and
generate automated email reports summarizing test results.

Costco is seeking a dedicated and experienced Quality Engineer to join our Global People Systems Enhancement & Optimization Team, where you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, accuracy, and performance of enterprise-wide HR and Payroll systems. This position supports critical Corporate HR applications including SAP Payroll, SAP HCM, Fiori Apps, SuccessFactors, and UKG, and involves designing and executing test strategies, validating integrations across payroll, talent management, and core HR modules, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to uphold compliance and data integrity. By leveraging automation tools and deep domain expertise, the Quality Engineer will help deliver seamless testing user experiences and drive continuous improvement across HR technology platforms using test automation and CI/CD tools.

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

● Defines the testing strategy (automation, manual) and approach to validate new or enhanced functionality implemented by teams.
 

● Collaborates with team members to decompose functional and nonfunctional requirements into test scenarios and test scripts.
 

● 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.
 

● Ensure appropriate test coverage (new functionality and regression) to minimize defects leakage to production and strive to maintain Quality Index of more than 98% with zero P1/P2 defects.
 

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

● Adopts Automation First strategy (AFS) for all functional and non-functional requirements (as applicable) 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 (testing) strategies while ensuring high quality.
 

● Creates and executes smoke, functional, integration, and non-functional test scripts as part of the product / application delivery lifecycle.
 

● Collaborates with tea