Expeditors Hiring for Quality Assurance Engineer II/III – Cartage, Cargo Services, IS Operational Experience Job at Seattle, WA Full Time

“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business.” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder

At the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. Global supply chain management is what we do, getting goods from one place to another for our customers, but information is how we do it and do it the best! We are a Global company based in the United States with.

• 18,000 trained professionals
• 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ Countries
• Fortune 500
• Globally unified systems

About Cargo Services, IS Operational Experience

Our software business systems are built to provide efficiency and functionality to our branches, allowing Expeditors to provide outstanding customer service and competitive rates. Our internal and external systems are an integrated suite of collaborative supply chain software applications that are designed to assist our operations teams and customers in managing international and domestic shipping challenges.

The Cartage Team will be doing greenfield development work to create a new system that will manage local freight movement, including initial freight pickup, transfers between facilities, and final delivery. It is part of the Cargo Services group, which is responsible for developing core business applications that enable our world-wide network to efficiently manage and transport freight via collaborative internal and customer facing systems.

Job Description

The Quality Assurance Engineer is the cornerstone for ensuring quality throughout the system development life cycle by being a part of a collaborative project team. You will be responsible for contributing to requirements, creating and executing test strategy for features, and participating in bug triage. You will be using test automation tools to create automated regression tests and to maintain the existing suite of automated tests.

Working on our team – what to expect:

Team structure

You would be part of an agile team working on building the new Cartage system. The team will ultimately have 3-4 developers, 1-2 QA engineers, a Product Owner, and a Scrum Master.

Our philosophy

Our team encourages people to take the time to help others, both within our team and across the organization. This provides opportunities to learn from many people, and makes work a more enjoyable place. We want our team members to love their job and feel supported by each other. We believe in a reasonable work/life balance, and go out of our way to provide employees with a stable place to grow their careers. We view failure as an opportunity to learn. We strive to provide help when asked, but avoid micromanaging. We favor decentralized decision making whenever possible. We value diversity in all its forms, and believe it makes for a more successful team. We make our hiring decisions irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

This position will sit in the Seattle, WA area. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience writing and maintaining automation tests
• Understands the requirement gathering process
• Create test strategies and test cases
• Execute test cases and report defects
• Assess and ensure quality
• Experience with automation tools
• Strong technical aptitude
• Demonstrated ability to analyze risk
• Communicate effectively to different audiences


DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Understanding of the transportation/logistics industry
• Direct warehouse experience or experience in using warehouse management software
• UNIX, Windows Operating systems
• BS in Computer Science or comparable work experience
• Proficient with at least one major programming language
• SQL, REST, JavaScript and/or Python experience

Additional Information

Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday. We are a business professional attire company.

Expeditors offers excellent benefits:

• Benefits: Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick Time, Work from Home Time
• Health Plan: Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental and Vision
• Life and Long Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Transit pass

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.