Junior Quality Assurance Analyst

Description:

Vircom is currently seeking a smart and focused person to fill a position of Junior Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst. Reporting to the QA Manager, the Junior QA Analyst will play a key role in ensuring the quality of the products releases by our product development organization.

To this effect, he/she will build strong business relationships with his/her peers from the QA and Development teams, but also with Client Support and Product Management in order to ensure that the overall quality of the product is constantly improving.

Finally, as a QA specialist, the person will use and enforce state-of-the-art techniques for the design, development, and implementation of test strategies and plans, and where appropriate, the automated and performance test strategy implementations for our products. At this level, the Junior QA Analyst will demonstrate excellent general software technical expertise and apply working knowledge of QA best practices and metrics.

Responsibilities:

• Be involved in all testing activities in order to meet overall software release goals: Test Strategy definition, Test Planning (Functional, Integration, Load/Performance, Acceptance, etc.), Test Case design, Test Execution, Test Reporting, Defect Tracking, Test Environment evolution and maintenance, etc.;
• Participate in all phases of various QA projects (estimates, schedules/staffing and progress reporting);
• Participate in enforcing and promoting QA process frameworks, procedures, policies, and standards;
• Participate in requirements and design reviews;
• Develop, design, and implement automation test strategies, test tools and test scripts per specification and design;

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field;
• Minimum 2 years in the software industry as a tester, developer and/or production support engineer;
• Prior experience in the Internet infrastructure and email protocol knowledge would be a strong asset;
• An excellent track record in participating in successful delivery of complex software applications in a Microsoft environment;
• Experience with manual and automated testing;
• Exposure to load, performance and stress testing;
• Experience with various testing methods: black-box, grey–box and white-box;
• Knowledge of Perl, VBS or other scripting language;
• Knowledge of computer hardware;
• Bilingual (French and English);
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• A passion for QA and for doing things the right way;
• Curiosity to dig deep and help find the underlying issues;
• Excellent skills in conflict resolution and problem solving;
• Interest in working as a team is essential;
• Self-motivated, good initiative, world-class organizational skills and genuine enthusiasm for your craft.