Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Askuity is a Toronto‑based retail analytics software company operating as a division within The Home Depot (THD). Through our supplier analytics program, Askuity’s mission is to enable suppliers and merchants at The Home Depot to make profitable, data‑driven decisions and drive real‑time execution.

We are looking for a dynamic QA Automation Engineer, eager to deliver high quality SaaS‑based products. As a member of the Product Development team at Askuity, you will help design and execute test strategies to ensure delivery of high‑quality software that has a meaningful and immediate impact on our growing customer base.

• Development and maintenance of our test automation suite
• Designing and executing effective test plans to ensure consistent high‑quality product delivery
• Conduct thorough baseline, regression, functional, integration and post‑release testing.
• Identify, document and escalates defects with clear and actionable details.

• Work with Product Owners and Developers to understand new product requirements and devise test cases to ensure coverage for acceptance criteria.
• Participate in various Agile ceremonies, provide story point estimation, provide inputs during Sprint planning and Retrospectives.
• Effectively communicating product quality issues and collaborating with software development to accelerate issue resolution.
• Action Oriented
• Drives Results
• Communicates Effectively
• Plans and Aligns

• Problem‑solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong communication, written and verbal

• QA Manager

• Limited
• Travel to corporate headquarters annually, as requested

• Extended Sitting
• Repetitive Tasks

• Working in an office setting: computer work, camera on virtual meetings

• 3+ years of QA automation experience
• None

• Software Testing certifications e.g CTSB or ISTQB preferred

• Experience developing automation frameworks for Web based applications using tools such as Selenium and WebdriverIO
• Worked as a part of an Agile team and participated in agile ceremonies like stand‑ups, refinement, planning, and retrospective meetings
• Strong understanding of QA concepts and testing best practices
• Ability to estimate story points and write well‑formed test cases based on acceptance criteria
• Experience identifying test data requirements Knowledge of Test Management tools like Test Rail, Zephyr etc.
• Ability to report and track defects in JIRA or a similar tool
• Hands‑on experience with Distributed version control systems such as GIT and Bitbucket
• Strong understanding of DB testing concepts
• ISTQB certification. Experience with API automation using tools like JMeter, Postman Exposure, and Google GCP (nice to have)
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles, CI tools like Git Hub, Bitbucket pipeline (nice to have)
• Knowledge of the retail domain (nice to have)
• Experience testing a product based on AI/ML (nice to have)

Associate

Full‑time

Quality Assurance

Software Development