Senior Test Engineer

Job Description

Senior Test Engineer – Remote, US

At Nutrien, our Purpose is to grow our world from the ground up and we do so with safety and integrity as our core values. Nothing is more important than sending our people home safe, every day.

Nutrien Ag Solutions is the retail division of Nutrien™, the largest crop inputs company in the world. As part of our collective mission of Feeding the Future, Nutrien Ag Solutions provides full-acre solutions through our trusted crop consultants at more than 2,000 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Australia. For more than 150 years, we have been helping growers achieve the highest yields with a wide selection of products, including our proprietary brands: Loveland Products, Inc.; Proven®Seed and Dyna-Gro®Seed; as well as financial, custom application and precision ag services.

We harvest the best. Diverse views and experience make us strong. We look for people who have a safety-first mindset, who are collaborative team players, who deliver on their commitments, who are innovators in search of a better way, and who believe in inclusion.

Working at Nutrien Ag Solutions will provide you an opportunity to help us Feed the Future, and grow your career.

What you will do:

• Able to be a self-starter and proactively solve problems and work with minimal supervision
• Advocate on behalf of the customer when assessing product quality and code quality 
• Drive collaborative discussions to promote understanding of product quality
• Actively participate in all scrum rituals; stand ups, sprint planning, refinement, retrospective
• Play an active role in the refinement and estimation of features and user stories ensuring acceptance criteria is well defined and QA effort is accurately estimated
• Develop and execute tests, analyze results, and communicate findings
• Report issues and drive defect triage, escalation, re-testing, and issue resolution
• Partner with developers and other test engineers to develop and review code and test cases
• Collaborate with developers to achieve a higher level of code coverage
• Build test automation artifacts that support and scale Continuous Integration & Continuous Testing  
• Test new and existing code to uncover defects with the ability to spot defect trends or product risks and assist in problem-solving code issues and product impediments
• Collaborate with Product Owners to define acceptance tests and “Done” criteria
• Partner with UX to ensure consistent user experience across the product
• Contribute to the test automation technology stack
• Lead testing, validation, and sign-off for software product development and release readiness within product release and Agile sprint cadence
• Mentor and coach less experienced team members
• Monitor software process deficiencies and prioritizes improvements

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline; experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Prior software development experience or equivalent test engineering experience required.
• 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Test Development required; 7 years of experience strongly preferred with an emphasis on Test Automation and managing test projects
• Working experience with programming languages, test-oriented development tools, and methodologies such as: TDD or BDD, Postman, Java, JavaScript, Python, Selenium (WebDriverIO), Appium (Mobile Automation), Jenkins / Travis CI / Circle CI (build & deployment) and code repository (GitHub)
• Knowledge of quality assurance (QA) methodology, QA best practices, & software development processes (Agile, Scrum, CI/CD)
• Extensive experience with manual and automation testing in a wide variety of projects and testing types including functional, regression, system, boundary, data integrity, exploratory, performance, API, compatibility, usability, reliability, and portability
• Technical experience with test frameworks - Cucumber, Jasmine, Chai, Mocha, Zephyr; data testing tools or capabilities; Cloud Testing – Perfecto / SauceLabs / BrowserStack; Project Tracking & Test Management Tools – JIRA / Rally, Zephyr; Experience working in a hybrid cloud environment like GCP, AWS, Oracle, etc.

Compensation:

 Salary Range: $103,600 - $142,450. This range is estimated for the Senior Test Engineer position in Loveland, Colorado. Actual salary and benefits may differ based upon location.

We provide an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, and life insurance and well as disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. In addition, we have a retirement program that encourages our employees to save for the longer term, with generous matching employer contributions. Our benefit package also demonstrates our culture of care with paid vacation, sick days and holidays as well as paid personal and maternity/parental leaves and an Employee and Family Assistance Program. Details of the benefits package will be shared in the application process. 

In addition to base pay, this role is also eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan, consistent with the terms of our plan, which provide discretionary award opportunities reflecting components such as performance of the company and the employee. Details will be discussed through the application process.

This information is provided in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and is the company's good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons. Nutrien also makes internal equity a consideration in all pay decisions. 

Are you a good match? Apply today!

Nutrien Ag Solutions is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating an inclusive workplace.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

This job will remain posted until filled. In accordance with Nutrien policies, you will be required to undergo a background check, and may be required to undergo a substance test. While we appreciate all applications we receive, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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Salary : $103,600 - $142,450