Intermediate QA Specialist - Term Contract
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Workplace: hybrid
Employment Type: temporary
Description
March Networks is an established global leader in the video surveillance industry and works with the world’s largest retailers and banking institutions. Our goal is to create a positive working environment where all of our employees can thrive. When you join our team, you’ll enjoy flexibility and support for a healthy work-life balance, as well as the professional development opportunities needed to advance your career. At March Networks, we value your hard work, creativity and your passionate desire to deliver only the best to our customers, partners and each other.
We are looking for a skilled, experienced and motivated QA professional (intermediate) to join our R&D team! In this role, you will take on primary responsibility for and contribute significantly to the verification and delivery of complex solutions, including software, firmware and hardware integration.
About the Role:
As an Intermediate QA Specialist, you will leverage your strong testing skills and problem-solving abilities to build and execute robust test plans for new features. You will work independently and collaboratively with other QA specialists, developers, and product managers to ensure successful project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Independently design, build and execute assigned test plans and test cases according to established testing standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with senior QA and other team members to understand complex requirements, translate them into test plans, and verify against the delivered code.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented manual and automated test cases that can be easily understood by others.
- Conduct thorough functional- and system-level testing to verify code functionality, identify bugs, and maintain high product quality.
- Investigate complex product and integration issues and raise clear, reproducible bugs, ensuring they are prioritized correctly and following through to resolution.
- Participate in design reviews, providing constructive feedback and learning from others.
- Stay up to date on emerging technologies and best practices in software testing.
- Proactively identify improvements to development and test processes and tools.
- Foster a collaborative and positive team environment, mentoring junior QA and sharing knowledge.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 2+ years of experience as a QA professional.
- Strong understanding of fundamental testing concepts and emerging technologies and best practices in software testing.
- Thorough understanding of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile).
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
- Experience with at least one test automation language (e.g., Python, JavaScript).
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Proficient in at least one automated testing framework (e.g., Robot, Selenium, Cypress)
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks effectively.
- A passion for learning and staying current with the latest technologies.
Bonus points for:
- Experience with developing test automation for Windows Desktop apps, especially using Robot and Python (major plus)
- Experience with specific technologies relevant to our current projects
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Familiarity with web development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS) is a plus.
- Experience with DevOps principles and practices.
- Experience with APIs and web services (a plus).
March Networks is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse workforce.
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Applicants can make their accommodation needs known to us in their application.
Please note March Networks uses AI as part of the recruitment process. This is an urgent role with a start date of mid-March.
Hiring salary range for this position is between $80,000 - $84,000. This is an existing vacancy with one opening.
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