Software Quality Engineer - IMMEDIATE PLACEMENT - Burlington, ON

Passionate about delivering high-quality Products to Market?

What Our Client Offers the Ideal Candidate

A rewarding opportunity to make use of leading development tools and technologies to ensure we deliver high-quality rich and interactive web applications. You will be constantly challenged to provide a high-level of quality control on multiple platforms and operational environments for our core-web applications and web services frameworks; targeting multiple web-browsers.

Our client offers a salary commensurate with demonstrated capabilities, matching RRSP contributions, performance-based bonuses, profit sharing, a comprehensive benefits package, and an annual training budget.

Who is the Ideal Candidate?

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
• Knowledge and appreciation of advanced client-side web technologies such as JQuery, HTML 5, Google Gears, SVG, etc.
• Has a comprehensive and up-to-date .NET/C# knowledge
• Has worked in a continuous integration environment
• Has developed automated custom QA solutions without relying on commercial software packages
• Has experience developing and executing manual and automated test suites with QA tools and techniques, defect tracking systems, test design and execution
• Has some database experience
• Is able and motivated to learn and master new technologies that advance the project
• Has excellent problem solving skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills,  and must be self-directed
• Has an ability to deliver

What is expected of the Ideal Candidate?

• Responsible for design and development of test infrastructure supporting functional tests, automated regression tests, performance tests, and stress tests of production web applications and web services
• Research and advocate build or purchase of appropriate tools for developing, running, and analyzing test and their execution results
• Setup and configure test environments in readiness for test execution and maintenance of the integrity of the environment during execution to ensure validity of test results
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance Analyst to ensure appropriate test coverage across our web applications and web services
• Ability to work closely with software developers while communicating effectively with product owners
• Knowledge of fundamental accounting concepts and principles

About Our Client's Environment and Team

• Scrum agile process
• .NET / C# / WCF, but not a “Microsoft shop”. Our client uses the technologies and platforms that achieve their goal.
• Good processes and controls

Please note that selected candidates will be asked to complete an on-site practical demonstration of their software development process.

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