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QA Specialist
Opportunity: MIGS1212 - Permanent
ShareThisThinData is Canada's leading permission-based email marketing solutions company. Key to our success is our Email Marketing Software Platform -- ThinData EMS. ThinData offers a progressive work environment where honesty, respect and courteous behaviour are valued. Where learning is encouraged and innovation is key to our success. We have a culture of excellence where we build world-class tier-one software and we hire the best of the best to make it all happen. If you’re an experienced technical quality assurance tester who has tested sophisticated Internet-based applications then ThinData might be the right place for you. If you are also a critical thinker who enjoys a team environment and you are confident in your abilities then ThinData is the right place for you.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
As a member of the ThinData EMS programming team you will:
- Design and build a QA/testing process in an Application Service Provider (ASP) / C# .NET / MS SQL / Windows software development environment.
- Perform unit, feature, system integration and regression testing.
- Clearly track test progress, convey results, forward forecast areas of risk and provide mitigation plans.
- Work closely with Developers qualifying code, providing useful debug information and sharing test code/extending developer unit tests.
- Set up automation test environment that executes redundant manual testing to improve efficiency.
- Provide insight and feedback to the development teams to build efficient processes, ensuring high development standards.
- Overall 3+ years of industry experience in software development Quality Assurance.
- Very strong QA Skills in test planning, including designing and executing test cases, bug isolation, bug report writing and troubleshooting.
- Must have held a lead test role in testing; including generating reports and summarizing overall status to management.
- Proven experience in creating time-saving automation strategies, test harnesses, scripting, execution, and debug. GUI automation is highly preferable. General software engineering concepts and skills is essential.
- Minimum 1-2 years experience with C# .NET / Windows Server / MS SQL.
- Proven in-depth hands on experience with automated scripting and testing tools.
- Ability to prioritize workload, balancing different projects, to be able to meet deadlines.
- Able to take documented and undocumented technical specs from development and translate them into feature and system integration test strategies and test plans.
- Be able to incorporate a customer-focused perspective when designing test cases, executing tests and test plans.
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Experience in supporting customer directly.
- Combination of being both methodical and willing to take risks.
- Driven to find out how things work in order to discover how to break processes.
- Act as the final gateway for deployment of production releases.
Location Information
Office: ThinData Inc.City: Toronto