Test Engineer

Top Hat • Full-time • Remote (Canada) • 1m ago

Fast Facts

Join Top Hat as a Test Engineer and ensure high-quality software delivery while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams. You'll utilize your expertise in testing methodologies to drive quality and advocate for the customer.

Responsibilities: Develop and execute test plans and scripts for both web and mobile platforms, collaborate on scaling test practices, and thoroughly validate new product features while identifying and tracking defects.

Skills: 5+ years of experience in Mobile and Web app testing, knowledge of automated test tools (Playwright, Appium), and strong communication skills are essential. Familiarity with Python and React is a plus.

Qualifications: Proven understanding of testing methodologies and the ability to integrate testing into development processes is required.

Location: Fully remote position based in Canada.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between CAD 70,000 - CAD 100,000.

Are you passionate about high-quality software delivery? As a Test Engineer at Top Hat, you will play a critical role in ensuring the high-quality delivery of our products. You will collaborate with the Product Manager and Development team, offering essential feedback on upcoming features. You’ll show off your creative problem-solving skills on a regular basis as you operate and improve processes from within our delivery teams. Integrate learning and feedback cycles throughout our delivery to enable the continuous testing needed for our continuous deployment practices. Apply your knowledge and experience with integration, release, feature flags, regression test planning, and execute manual & automated testing for a delivery team. Champion best practices and help us scale improvements across the rest of our growing department.

You will:

Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to thoroughly validate software applications and features on both Web and Mobile platforms
Develop, write, and maintain automated test scripts. Executes tests and analyzes results to ensure software quality, identify bugs, and streamline the testing process
Collaborate with Test and Platform teams on scaling test practices and improvements out across the rest of the organization
Help your team speak more effectively to its domain so that team stakeholders integrate an understanding of quality into decision making
As the voice of our customer, you work with our product management, design, user research, customer success, revenue, and marketing teams to deliver products that exceed quality expectations
Thoroughly test new product features, ensuring they are delivered with the highest quality standards.
Identify, track, and record defects, perform root cause analysis and support defect triage

You are:

You are excited to have tangible impact on a product and service used by professors, students, authors, and other faculty
You have at least 5+ years of experience (particularly in Mobile and Web app testing) as a Test Engineer or similar position, with a strong understanding of testing methodologies and techniques
You are a quick learner and you enjoy working in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
You are detail-oriented and you like drive resolutions to produce a top quality product
You represent the customer, so you are comfortable being their advocate
You understand how to integrate testing into development and delivery processes
Able to work with and drive quality best practices across teams at scale
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks, such as Playwright, Appium, Typescript, Python Unittest
Experience with test management tools, such as TestRail, Zephyr
Bonus points for being able to read and understand Python and React code (but not required for this role)
Have strong communication skills, both written and verbal

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