JavaScript Job: QA Automation Engineer

Who We Are
Daylight is on a mission to help organizations build rules-based digital solutions that make employees more efficient and customers happy. Our SaaS platform empowers business teams to transform complex manual processes into digital experiences, at a fraction of the cost.
From modernizing legacy systems to improving the flow of data across an organization, our platform helps business users and IT teams streamline inefficient processes and free up valuable resources to complete more projects.
Some of North America’s largest financial services, healthcare, insurance, and government organizations, are using our platform to improve their digital experiences and drive internal efficiencies.
Location: This role is open to remote employees within Canada

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The opportunity*
Help us provide tremendous value to our customers by ensuring our product has a high bar for quality!
As we continue to grow and work on challenging and unique projects, we’re adding a* QA Automation Engineer* to our Engineering team. This is a unique opportunity for someone to help build and execute our testing practice from the ground-up. We’re looking for someone who is obsessed (in a healthy way!) about software quality practice, lives and breathes the values of QA Engineering, and wants to put their skills to work on a unique and interesting product!

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As a QA Automation Engineer, you will: *

• Assist in the creation and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies for new and existing software.
• Execute test plans with a keen eye to identify, troubleshoot and resolve defects and issues in our product
• Work directly with SW development teams to investigate and resolve issues.
• Create, manage and execute manual and automated testing to ensure the software meets the requirements and expectations of our customers
• Maintain a very high bar for quality with the ability and confidence to hold releases that don’t meet the standard.
• Maintain a “big picture’ customer perspective to strongly represent the customer’s goals and their experience using our product.
• Meet sprint goals, ensuring quality releases are delivered
• Support product releases through initial testing through the various stages of a release cycle.
• Write clear and concise documentation including test strategies, plans, test cases, reproduction steps, results and reports.
• Stay current with new tools and methodologies and stay current with best practices in quality

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What are we looking for?*

• Technical expertise.
• 1+ years of QA experience, with a strong understanding of QA best practices.
• Familiarity with API testing using a tool like Postman.
• Experience working with modern web applications, and are familiar with technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Jenkins, Jira, GitHub and architecture styles such as Microservices or Service-Oriented Architecture.
• You have a passion for learning about software test strategies, using both automation and manual tests,
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for finding root cause solutions to complex problems.
• A high bar for quality
• You understand the importance of accessible web design and polished, delightful user experience.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

• Education.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, related field or comparable experience.

• Communication skills.
• You love working in a collaborative team-based environment, and have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.

• Desire to grow and adapt.
• You want to make a difference and do impactful work, positively influencing the work of your peers and ensuring that only well-tested features are released to our users.
• You’re always looking for ways to do better. When faced with setbacks, you learn from the root causes and strive to continuously improve your work.

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Bonus points if you have: *

• Hands-on experience building or working with automation testing infrastructure and test harnesses.
• You have experience building and running an end-to-end automation testing framework (Selenium, Cypress or Nightwatch.js, etc.) in a CI/CD pipeline.
• You have experience with non-functional testing such as Performance, Accessibility and Security Testing.
• Familiarity with testing NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB).

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Reasons why you will love working at Daylight!*

• Make meaningful contributions: Make an impact at a product-led organization that is simplifying the lives of real people. Daylight prides itself in its diversity and inclusivity, your voice matters and we want to hear it!
• Benefits: Starting from day 1 at Daylight, enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with: health, dental and vision plans (for you and your family), including an EAP program, parental leave top-up, as well as telemedicine & virtual healthcare services.
• Time off: Find work-life balance with 4-day work weeks, flexible working hours and paid vacation.
• Growth at Daylight: We value lifelong learning, continuous development and personal and professional growth; we enable employees to pursue their interests and grow their career at Daylight.
• Connect with fellow Daylighters: Enjoy our company-wide contests, Friday socials, People Meetings and quarterly team building events to get to know your teammates both as coworkers as well as individuals.
• Choose-your-workplace, within Canada! Enjoy working from the comfort of your home, in our brand new office Downtown Toronto or a hybrid of the two. Either way, we will provide a home office budget to set you up for success.

• Daylight is conducting remote interviews at this time. Benefits and perks listed above may change over time as the company grows and evolves.

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#JoinDaylight*
At Daylight, we believe in authenticity, passion and transferable skills. If you feel that you only meet ~70% of the requirements, but are interested in our opportunity, then we’d love to hear from you.
The diverse experiences, identities, perspectives and opinions of our team members (also known as Daylighters) help us make better decisions and drive great results. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for every Daylighter.
Daylight is an equal opportunity employer. Should you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to request. In addition, please feel free to identify your preferred pronouns when applying.
Would you like to learn more about Daylight? Check out daylight.io/careers and give us a follow on LinkedIn for the latest updates!

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Job Type: Full-time