Engineer – EQA Tools ~

The Engineer provides technical leadership and expertise for the Enterprise Quality Assurance Tools team. This includes solution analysis, design, development/implementation and delivery activities. The Engineer coordinates and provides ultimate technical support for other members of the Tools team. The Engineer contributes to strategic goals, planning and decision making with management teams and other teams throughout the organization. The Engineer will drive adoption of best practices and high quality standards for the QA Organization throughout the Division.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Leads and participates in the assessment, analysis and design of solutions belonging to or involved with the EQA team.
• Establishes sustainable support and training processes for solutions.
• Mentors and encourages team members to grow into skills needed for both new areas and team skill redundancy.
• Solution cost benefit / ROI modeling and analysis.
• Plans and directs tasks in a measurable way that aligns short term goals and long term initiatives.
• Establishes sustainable software support channels and processes between team members and software vendors including training and communication of tool best practices.
• Provides a backstop to whom other team members can bring difficult technical problems for guidance toward resolution.

• Designs, implements and improves custom distributed software solutions on Java and/or .NET platforms.
• Integrates diverse solution components across multiple platforms and locations using industry standard interfaces (REST, SOAP, etc.) and component specific interfaces (COM, Java, .NET, etc.).
• Understands and utilizes enterprise software design patterns (especially Async. and Messaging patterns).
• Understands, implements and supports industry standard source control and source change management techniques and systems using SubVersion & GIT.
• Understands, implements and supports build and deployment using Continuous Integration and other automated techniques.
• Advanced diagnostic and debugging skills in distributed multi-platform systems.
• Defines, implements and validates requirements for the availability, scalability, maintainability and security of software solutions.
• Supports measurable end-user service and support processes including SLAs.

• Implements sustainable disaster recovery and monitoring procedures for production systems.
• Reconciles user requests, best practices, and implementation realities to produce outcomes that support the business and avoid unnecessary scope expansion.
• Analyzes, designs and implements solutions using software defined networking, virtual computing resources and software defined storage both in-the-cloud and on-premise.
• Collaborates and sustains relationships with other Costco teams that own the infrastructure components hosting our solutions.
• Defines, implements and validates requirements for the availability, scalability, maintainability and security of infrastructure resources.

Required skills and abilities

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other related field Or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 10 years of managing performance scorecard, dashboard and benchmarking processes.
• Minimum 5 years of leading a successful direct report and matrix team.
• Must have strong, demonstrable background in infrastructure solutions (Security, availability, performance, scalability, networking, monitoring)
• In depth knowledge and hands on experience with multiple platforms (ex: Windows, AiX, Linux, etc.), development languages(ex: Java, C#, ABAP, etc.) and technologies (Web Applications, Web Services, MQ integration, etc.)
• Must have strong understanding of industry best practices to aid in evolving Costco processes / standards
• Strong and broad technical experience related to software testing and quality assurance
• Must have experience working within a formal software development lifecycle
• Must have a proven track record of strong leadership and team-building skills
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills
• Must be detail-oriented and possess strong problem-solving skills
• Must have the ability to work under pressure
• Must be extremely responsive and possess a strong sense of urgency
• 24x7x365 operations – evening, weekend, and holiday work may be required

Recommended skills, abilities, and certifications

• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills and be able to collaborate with people at all levels
• Excellent organizational and planning skills, with experience building strategic and tactical plans
• Innovative, creative and possess a passion for excellence

Apply: Use the link below to upload all required documents to

https://chm.tbe.taleo.net/chm02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=COSTCO&cws=1&rid=1865

Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Apart from any religious or disability considerations, open availability is needed to meet the needs of the business.