Software Engineer - QA / Senior Software Engineer - QA / Lead Software Engineer - QA

A Software Engineer QA at IFS will have a background in quality assurance processes and methodologies and work with all aspects of quality assurance throughout the entire software development process. They are involved in ensuring that quality is considered early in the design process so that the product will be testable later.

As per the 7Stages Development Process a Software Engineer QA works with both the QA Leader and development team to ensure all aspects of testing support and test coverage are included in the testing plans. They monitor every phase of the development process to ensure that the design and software adhere to company standards.

Someone in this role should also have a thorough understanding of QA testing environments and software development life cycles. They help meet sprint deadlines by breaking up the development process into attainable testing goals and relaying any issues back to the development and product teams or leaders.

Responsibilities:

Develop Test Frameworks and Tools for the development team

Perform continuous Quality Inspections on Technical Design Process rituals Test Strategies and Risk Management.

Coach/train software engineers on coding testing and engineering best practices. Lead By Example is our style of work. (You do it first and show others how to do it!)

An ability to fix defects in the code if needed and then educate the development team on prevention techniques to avoid similar defects.

Initiate plan and drive activities related to automated testing.

Ensure test scripts are created along with relevant test coverage

Install and upgrade test deploy cloud/on prem modularity tests

Active in improving and evolving test methodologies and tools used

Initiate plan and drive activities related to manual testing

Plan and manage manual testing for application documentation and instructions

Maintain the manual test case repository

Test data scripts for support with manual testing.

Usability testing Ensure good enduser usability for the product area of responsibility

Performance testing Ensure the products & solutions developed are performant

Security testing Manage tests and processes related to vulnerability handling

Monitor track and document tests

Create documentation presentation and training material

Engage with requirement owners and other stakeholders to

Ensure customer satisfaction and solution fit

Provide solution options and estimations

Perform prestudies and prototype new or changed functionality

Act as a good citizen within the team technically and culturally.

Make decisions in their area of responsibility that help maintainability and reuse.

Initiate conversations to get the support/clarity necessary to carry out a task.

Constructively challenge existing perspectives and proposed solutions inside the team.

Evaluate alignment of work with strategic initiatives and company goals.

Qualifications :

Recommended 2 years of relevant experience

BA/BS required Technical Diploma in Computer Science MIS or IT or a related field preferred.

Must be able to work / be available a couple hours a day that overlap with Canadian business hours.

Mandatory Skills

Test Driven Development (TDD)

Test Design Techniques (TDT) such as Whitebox TDT

Testing Tools & Methodologies:

o Selenium

o SpecFlow

o NUnit

o Gherkin (BDD frameworks)

o Cucumber

o Visual Studio

o Entity Framework

Programming Languages:

o Angular

o C#/.NET

o SQL

Manual Testing

Test scripts

Testable code

Performance testing

Ability to build test documentation

Good to have Skills

AI & Automation Integration: Experience with leveraging AI tools and technologies to:

Enhance code quality (ex: AIassisted static analysis code review tools)

Accelerate Development workflows (ex: GitHub Copilot AIbased test generation)

Automate repetitive infrastructure or scripting tasks

Innovate across the software engineering lifecycle (ex: troubleshooting or incident responses)

Additional Information :

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community we drive innovation strengthen connections and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime