Mobile QA Engineer

Location: Canada - Toronto

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.

Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new boundaries.

Primary Purpose

As a Mobile QA Engineer, you will work closely with Product Stakeholders, UX Designers, Developers, and fellow QA Engineers in an Agile, cross-functional environment. You'll gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools, gadgets, frameworks, and technologies, while shaping the future of IoT.

Major Responsibilities / Job Duties

• Advocate for quality throughout the development process.

• Perform comprehensive testing to verify, validate, and reduce risk, ensuring the delivery of top-quality products.

• Automate tests, contributing to building scalable, reliable systems.

• Provide valuable insights from planning through deployment, ensuring testing is integrated early in the process.

• Engage in a variety of challenges, whether it's testing monolithic applications, microservices, or creating and executing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for applications leveraging the latest mobile technologies.

Minimum Job Requirements / Job Duties

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

Work Experience:

2 years of experience in QA

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

We've built the following list as a guideline for some of the skills and interests we've seen in QA Engineers - but we strive to build our team with members from a diverse background and skill set, so if any combination of these apply to you, we’d love to chat!

• A critical thinker with a passion for quality and software testing.

• Curiosity and resourcefulness that help you identify problems and devise creative solutions.

• Extensive experience with software testing techniques, methodologies, and tools.

• Strong representation of the QA team in cross-functional meetings, advocating for quality at every decision-making stage.

• A hands-on tinkerer who loves creating apps and robots in your spare time.

• Enjoyment of collaborative work in an agile, fast-paced development environment.

• Diligence in documenting test plans, cases, bug reports, and research findings.

• Experience writing test automation scripts using Python and Appium.

• Comfort with testing native apps, APIs, integration, exploratory, performance/load/stress, usability, accessibility, and security.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, using tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.

Preferred ​Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Familiarity with Swift, Kotlin, Espresso, or XCUITest is a plus.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”