Staff QA Software Engineer

About Us

Ritchie Bros. (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks and other assets in numerous industries including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, oil and gas, mining, and forestry. Our mission is to create compelling business solutions for the world's builders to easily and confidently exchange equipment. Learn more about us at: https://www.ritchiebros.com/

About The Team

Our Technology teams work collaboratively from different locations across the world on multiple eCommerce sites, mobile applications, and automated online auctions. We encourage and celebrate technical innovation and work with some of the industry’s leading technologies and tools.

Every day your work will make a difference in the way we run our business and the in the way customers interact with us.

Job Description

Responsible for technical and architectural leadership across Product Engineering teams within the Web Experience domains with a deep focus on Quality Assurance. Responsible for all Quality Assurance practices for the web and services (integration) platform within assigned domain. Collaborate with Staff Engineer, Tech Leads, designers, product managers, and developers to deliver compelling and efficient tools/products. Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Coach and train a team of Quality Assurance Engineers, while continuing to be hands on with coding themselves. Partner with Engineering Managers and Tech leads on annual performance reviews and use your industry influence and knowledge as part of the panel that will hire new creative talent where needed.

Responsibilities

Accountable for working with and across Product Teams to develop a sustainable, performant and well designed suite product that meet RB Global technical standards

Drive the adoption of designs and assist teams in meeting technical and business goals

Develop and publish new technical standards across the organization and drive adoption of said solutions

Build skillsets within the team through partnership with Engineering Enablement teams and assure team members have the skills and tools necessary to achieve their team mission

Provide simple, yet efficient solution, for any requirement.

Design/Manage implementation of overall quality strategy for your domain and products

Technical lead on all tools and process decisions related to quality assurance

Prioritize/Manage development effort required to fulfill product feature requests in a timely manner

Define/Design quality and testing strategies alongside Staff Engineers, working with Product Managers and team members to create scalable/robust web applications.

Analyze and assess existing applications and procedures as they pertain to application solutions and continuously improving quality

Tackle new (never seen) technical problems, independently research and find innovative solutions.

Constantly identify opportunities (or problems) in software development process, make appropriate improvements, with a deep focus on optimizing the lean development process

Qualifications

College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or software engineering or equivalent.

Minimum of 7 years of enterprise web development experience, 3 years’ experience developing scalable performant solutions and setting engineering and architectural direction across a specific domain of an organization with a focus on quality assurance and development of testing strategies and test cases.

Strong understanding of enterprise technology stack

Demonstrated ability to manage the full QA/Testing Pyramid and make solid decisions on where and how to test

Strong experience with Kubernetes and container deployment patterns solutions

A deep focus on CI/CD and the ability to drive automated pipeline solutions

Ability to articulate and explain technical solutions to stakeholders