About this QA Automation Tester role at Flynncompanies
Flynn Group of Companies, North America’s leading building envelope contractor, is looking for a QA Automation Tester to work from our Mississauga location reporting to Manager, Custom Applications.
Imagine a career where your quality mindset and technical expertise help deliver high-quality software solutions that improve the day-to-day productivity of our users. Be recognized for your skills and participate in the full software development lifecycle. Work with modern technologies and testing frameworks while helping ensure our applications meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance. As a key member of our Custom Applications team, you will contribute to product quality initiatives, automated testing efforts, incident resolution, and continuous improvement across our software portfolio.
Our Team
A small team of collaborative individuals working together to solve hard problems and deliver testable, high-quality, secure code. Everyone wears multiple hats and has the opportunity to grow their skills on several projects.
We foster a culture of continuous improvement by adopting modern development practices. This includes leveraging AI-assisted tools throughout our software development lifecycle to improve productivity, code quality, knowledge sharing, and innovation. We trust our engineers - if there's a tool, license, or resource that helps you work better, just ask. We'll make it happen.
Our Tech Stack
Our mobile and web app ecosystem hosted on Amazon AWS requires a multi-faceted approach to testing. We use a combination of BrowserStack and Appium for mobile (Android and iOS), Playwright and Selenium for web and API testing. Our APIs are built in C# .NET and we use SQL Server and MongoDB as our primary databases. We use CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps as well as monitoring solutions such as New Relic and Sumo Logic.
AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot allow us to accelerate our development and testing pipeline and improve the software delivery cycle. By continuously evaluating emerging AI technologies, we identify tools that provide transformational value for our business partners and development teams.
- Design and maintain a library of automated and manual test cases
- Conduct API and end to end testing of web and mobile apps as part of quality assurance
- Track and improve test automation coverage to minimize defect escape rates
- Identify and utilize AI powered tools and practices that enhance the team to deliver short- and long-term value
- Integrated automated testing in CI/CD pipelines to support rapid software delivery
- Embrace a feedback cycle with direct communication with users and stakeholders to support and enhance our suite of custom applications
- Engage in regular collaboration with members from different teams to enhance teamwork and ensure the success of our projects
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement
- Commitment to continuous self-improvement through learning of cutting-edge tech and tools to keep our tech stack ahead of the curve
- Be a quality steward taking ownership of your projects
- Off-hours support as required
- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 2 - 5 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance, including testing web and mobile applications
- 2+ years of experience of utilizing automated testing frameworks such as Playwright
- 2+ years of experience with Selenium and/or Appium frameworks in C# or Java
- 2+ years of experience testing RESTful APIs with Postman or equivalent
- Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, QA processes, and software development lifecycles
- Familiarity with AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar - we embrace AI-assisted QA as part of our engineering culture
- Able to understand user requirements and translate them into documented test scenarios to create a holistic test plan
- Knowledge of performance, regression, and integration testing practices
- Familiarity with Jira (or similar tools) to submit and track bugs
- Ability to work both as part of a team & independently
- Driven by user satisfaction:
- Passion for delivering high-quality software experiences to users
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks based upon direction given to the team
- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making abilities to investigate and resolve issues reported by our users
- Experience with the following tools and technology is an asset:
- Atlassian Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Aha!, New Relic, Luciq
- Azure DevOps
- MS SQL and MongoDB database validation testing
- TypeScript front end frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, etc.)
- .NET Framework/Core (C#)
