Senior QA Engineer
Relay
Quality Assurance
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Oct 25, 2024
Our mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we’re changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We’re building for employer SMBs and their finance function, internal and external, and are focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience. Ultimately, we help SMBs be ‘on the money'.
As our Senior QA Engineer, you'll be embedded within a functional product team elevating the quality of every release to our users, while also improving the overall quality automation platforms, systems, and tools across all teams at Relay.
What You'll Be Doing
- Work within a functional product delivery team to elevate the quality of every release
- Provide mentorship and leadership across all of engineering within the test automation domain, acting as a test automation SME
- Drive the creation and execution of a holistic quality engineering roadmap, including adoption of new tooling, frameworks, processes or practices
- Partner with quality engineers across all teams to ensure a consistent and scalable approach to test automation
- Create/review/execute test plans for testing of new projects across web and mobile applications
- Explore and experiment with exploratory testing in domains such as load testing
- Adapt development processes and tools to improve end-to-end test coverage visibility and highlight areas for investment
- Success in this role is elevating our test platforms, systems and tools to improve test coverage driving higher quality and faster releases as well as reducing resolution time of failures as we make the tests more robust
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years building test automation platforms, systems, tools and test cases driving high quality and fast releases
- You have built out platforms and systems to drive automated testing for product delivery
- You have worked as part of a product delivery team, working closely with product managers and developers to delivery high quality releases
- You have evaluated and deployed a new tool or platform to improve automated testing
- You are data driven, you know what metrics to track to highlight progress and determine where to further invest
Bonus Points
- You’re skilled with writing automation tests with Typescript and Cypress
- You’re familiar working with products built with Node.js and React
- You have experience with testing mobile applications
- You have experience working with AWS
- You have experience working in a fintech startup
Our Commitment To You
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary.
- Comprehensive health benefits: enjoy full health benefits from day one. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Flexible vacation and time off: every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays so you can take time off to recharge and come back better for our customers.
- Parental leave with top-up: we offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive.
- Hybrid work environment: we value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office twice a week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
- Dog-friendly space: can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
- Personal and professional growth: through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success.
- Top-tier equipment: as a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
- Social connection: we believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities with industry leaders.
We’re driving real change for small business owners, powered by truly remarkable people. At Relay, you’ll find the confidence to take changes, trust to take initiative, and the support you need to build a career you love. Here, we make sure every team member feels empowered to make big decisions, encourage to ask tough questions, and challenged to take risks that result in work we’re all proud of. We give you the baton–you run the Relay.
The Interview Process
- Stage 1: A 30-minute Google Meets video call with a member of our Talent team
- Stage 2: A 1 hour Google Meets video call with the two members of the engineering team, including the hiring manager
- Stage 3: A case study take-home with a 1 hour review and feedback session with 2 members of the team
- Stage 4: A 30-minute Google Meets video call with a member of our leadership team
Research shows that women-identifying and other marginalized individuals tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications; if you don't have all the listed qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway!
What’s Important to Us:
At Relay, we believe that diversity is key to building high-performing teams, and creating an inclusive work environment is our priority. We are an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
We will work with applicants to provide accommodations at any stage of the hiring process. If you require accommodations during the interview process, please email your People Team contact, and we will work with you to meet your needs.
