Senior IT QA Engineer (Santiago de Querétaro)

Create a healthier, brighter future for pets, pet parents and people!

If you want to make a real difference, create an exciting career path, feel welcome to be your whole self and nurture your wellbeing, Petco is the place for you.

Our core values capture that spirit as we work to improve lives by doing what’s right for pets, people and our planet.

• We love all pets like our own
• We’re the future of the pet industry
• We’re here to improve lives
• We drive outstanding results together
• We’re welcome as we are

Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500+ pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, including 250+ Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. We’re focused on purpose-driven work, and strongly believe what’s good for pets, people and our planet is good for Petco.

Duties & Responsibilities

• In coordination with the leadership and project teams, is responsible for execution of all QA activities specific to their relevant implementation priorities. These activities include creation, review and execution of test cases, managing product test coverage, defect management, project statuses and escalations.
• Responsible for tracing test cases to business requirements, effective defect reporting, participating in defect reporting systems and daily triage meetings, capturing and reporting of QA metrics, test planning, test case creation and execution.
• The Sr. QA Engineer will follow software quality assurance strategy, policies, best practices, and procedures for all systems/projects as assigned by the QA Manager and/or QA Leads. The Sr. QA Engineer will be responsible for identifying and analyzing quality risks, creating and executing detailed test cases, logging associated defects, documenting testing statistics and ensuring proper test data for their assigned projects.
• Maintains a high level of situational awareness regarding all activities relevant to meeting project schedules, production system service levels, and providing regular status updates to management and relevant stakeholders.
• Ensures QA environment(s) availability, data requirements for respective testing activities have been met, functional parity/equivalence with production environment and any other dependencies have been documented and communicated to the QA Manager and/or QA Leads prior to test execution.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance and/or software development.
• Must have experience testing complex systems with multiple integration points. Including coordination between on shore and off shore resources.
• Must have QA experience working on eCommerce, mobile, and OMS systems. (IBM Websphere Commerce and IBM Sterling a plus)
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills, as well as, being comfortable working directly with and providing daily statuses to executive leadership and leading meetings as needed.
• Must have experience with standard quality assurance processes, methodologies & framework including but not limited to white/gray/black box testing, unit testing, functional testing, regression testing and integration testing.
• Must have experience with Microsoft Office tools (Powerpoint, MS Project, Visio, etc).
• Must have experience creating detailed test plans & test cases for complex integration projects that include in depth coverage of all positive and negative scenarios.
• Prefer to have experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and best practices.
• Must have experience with industry leading bug and test case management systems
• Highly desirable to have a strong understanding of SOAP, WSDL/XML, JavaScript, Ajax, REST technologies.

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.