ASICS Running Apps – Quality Assurance Engineer

• Product: ASICS Runkeeper™ app
• Job type: Quality assurance
• Position: Full time

Kihachiro Onitsuka founded ASICS in 1949 to realize his desire to nurture the youth of Japan through sports and contribute to the development of society. Our founding philosophy, Anima Sana In Corpore Sano (A Sound Mind in a Sound Body), represents our wish for people all over the world to live healthful and happy lives in both body and mind.

The ASICS brand is especially well known for its connection to running and for producing extremely high-quality running shoes. To strengthen our commitment to runners, we are expanding our investment in running-related digital services, i.e. running event technology (Race Roster™), AI run-coaching apps (the ASICS Runkeeper™ app), and other exciting platforms that will help us better serve the running industry. Combined, these projects and products makeup ASICS Running Apps. 

Our mission?in the past, today, and into the future?is to contribute to a healthful and sustainable society and to bring joy to the people of the world through sports. Sports are an important element in living longer healthy lives, in feeling more fulfilled, and in crossing national and cultural boundaries to bring the world together. If you are looking to join a fun and innovative company focused on the booming digital health and fitness industry, this is the place for you!

Position Overview

As a Quality Assurance Engineer on the Runkeeper product, you are a strong advocate for accessibility to users from varied walks of life and at all stages of their fitness journeys, and exhibit this through your testing. On a daily basis you are expected to demonstrate that existing and new functionality meet the highest standards of quality, reliability, user-friendliness, security, and speed. As a team, we think critically about the structure of new features to find bugs wherever they may hide. Our testing enables education of the team on the current state of application versions so we can make well-informed, intelligent decisions together. This position requires flexibility as we respond to new business and customer requirements, while being able to quickly adapt to new strategies and priorities as they evolve.

This position is open to internal and external candidates.

Product Line 

This role will be working on the Runkeeper product.

Work Location

The successful candidate for this role can be either a satellite employee (working 100% remotely from a designated location within Canada or US), a hybrid employee (flexibility to work in the office or from home at a location within 75km/75 miles from the London, ON/Boston, MA office), an in office employee at our London, ON/Boston, MA office.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be testing new features as they are developed, working side by side with software engineers, designers, and product managers to find, log, and prioritize bugs.
• You’ll be contributing to our automation framework, maintaining and writing new tests and test suites.
• You’ll be responsible for regression testing for releases and for keeping the regression test suite up to date.
• You’ll write clear and concise test plans and bug reports.
• You’ll own QA responsibilities throughout the release process.
• You’ll act as a point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinate QA resources internally and externally.
• You’ll meaningfully participate in diversity and inclusion initiatives across the ASICS Running Apps teams.

Education and Experience

• 3+ years QA experience
• 2+ years automation experience (or relevant experience, as described by you)
• Strong organization and data management skills
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate

Bonus Experience

• Experience working with automation framework(s)
• Swift, Java, Python
• Appium, Selenium

Performance Measures

• Effective use of time & resources; ability to complete tasks
• Strong communication skills across departments
• Continuously learning and improving in (& beyond) your role
• Teamwork & collaboration

The successful candidate for this role, if located in Canada, will become an employee of Race Roster North America Corporation (RRNA), if located in the US, they will become an employee of ASICS Runner App (ARA). RRNA and ARA are subsidiaries of ASICS Corporation, a Japanese multinational corporation. Race Roster was founded in London, Ontario in 2011.

Compensation

TBD

Core values

Personable, Integrity, Expertise, Trustworthy

Application instructions

Send all cover letters and resumes to careers@raceroster.com

Tell us why you want to work at Race Roster and describe an awesome project or team you’ve worked on in the past. Include the title of the position you are applying for in the subject of the email. Please give us a link to your LinkedIn or any other portfolio website.

Race Roster believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, a workplace free of discrimination, and a culture of inclusion and growth. As such, we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce and providing opportunities for employment equity groups. In your application, we invite you to self-declare if you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Colour (this includes all visible minority groups) and/or as a woman. Self-declaration is voluntary. This information will be used to help Race Roster measure the progress towards our Diversity & Inclusion goals and ensure our efforts towards representation and equality are being met.

To self-declare that you belong to an employment equity group please take the time to fill out the Race Roster self-declaration form. If you don't self-declare at the application stage, you can still self-declare at any point during the recruitment process.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, sex, place of origin, ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, creed, record of offences, genetics, disability, age, marital status, family status, veteran status, or fitness level.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.


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