QA Engineer
@ VIPRE Security
Summary
$70,000 - $75,000
Canada
Remote
Mid-Level
Full-time
About the Company
Company Name: VIPRE Security
Industry: Cybersecurity
Benefits
Total compensation includes salary, benefits, matching contribution to one's RRSP/401K plans, preferred stock option purchase plan, and other perks.
Job Description
VIPRE Security, a brand of Ziff Davis, develops cybersecurity products focused on endpoint protection and email security together with advanced threat intelligence solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Review product, feature, design specifications
- Define stories, create test plan
- Develop manual test cases
- Strive to automate wherever possible
- Help stakeholders in their estimation
- Participate in sprint plannings, etc
- Perform functional and non-functional tests, system and end-to-end testing.
- Write clear and concise bug reports and help developers to narrow down issues
- Proactively work towards improving product and processes
- Coordinates to stakeholders, developers and meeting key dates, project milestones and progress reports.
Experience:
- Education and/or Certification Requirements BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience
- Knowledge and working experience in Software QA processes and methodologies.
- Experience in working in agile software development environment
- Having test automation and/or programming experience
- Comfortable in at least one of the technologies or similar tools for software testing:
- Frameworks: Appium, Robot Framework, PyTest
- Programming/Scripting Languages: e.g. Python, Bash, Powershell
- Experience of working in an agile development environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Understanding of different levels of testing (Unit, integration, acceptance, etc.)
- Understanding of different layers of the software like backend, API, UI, etc.
- Knowledge and experience in testing apps in different desktops and mobile operating systems such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
- Knowledge and experience in working with Docker containers and/or virtualized test environments e.g. VM/ware/VirtualBox, Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud virtual machines
Behavioural Qualities:
- Be a self-starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize work
- Good root cause analysis
- Integrity and commitment to quality
- Rational with good professional judgment, able to deal well with ambiguity
- Should be passionate about the quality of the product
- Motivate others and lead by example