Quality Assurance Specialist (Ref #D2LQAS2008)
General Description:
Quality Assurance Specialists at Desire2Learn use every trick and resource at their disposal to try and break our eLearning platform. The successful candidate will employ testing techniques on software components as they are developed, ensuring that the solutions are practical, stable, and user-friendly. Testers work closely with fellow team members and with employees from other departments, especially development, support, and product management, in a collaborative and open environment. This position does not involve programming or direct web development.
Division/Department: Quality Assurance
Type of Position: Full-time
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Main Duties:
- Taking a planned and self-directed exploratory approach to testing
- Hunting for bugs in the software
- Designing and executing test cases
- Investigating problems, finding their root cause, and clearly documenting findings
- Raising usability concerns and proposing solutions to problems after performing thorough investigation, taking into account the needs of all clients
- Testing bug fixes to determine if they are valid and complete
- Performing scenario-based testing from the perspectives of various client roles
- Validating crucial design decisions and trying to find flaws with them
- Proposing suggestions for additions and improvements to the software
- Communicating status, findings, and progress on a regular basis
Work Experience Recommendations:
- At least one year experience in a software testing environment
- Expert working knowledge of computers and excellent typing skills
- Experience with issue-tracking software and with testing database-driven web applications is an asset
- Experience with any of JavaScript, VBScript, CSS, ASP, and ASP .NET, knowledge of SQL queries, and exposure to relational databases would be assets
Education Recommendations:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a technical field
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest. To make the best use of your time and ours, only those applicants whose profiles closely match our requirements will be contacted directly.
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