Senior QA Analyst

Job Description:

Job summary

Your primary responsibility as a Senior QA Analyst will be to perform testing of our network protocol testing products.

What you’ll do

As part of an Agile SCRUM team, you will contribute to the development of new functionalities to our existing line of network testing products. Your role as the QA expert will be to

• Implement the testing strategies early in our development process. To ensure our test strategies are implemented successfully part of your role will be to educate your team members, including developers, testers, product owners, and Scrum Masters, about what our test strategy is and how it can benefit the development process. Explain the principles, concepts, and the format for writing tests scenarios.
• Work with the team to select the appropriate tools that align with our tech stack and team's preferences.
• Help define when and how scenarios are written, reviewed, and executed during the development lifecycle.
• Encourage collaboration between developers, testers, and product owners in grooming sessions where team members collectively define acceptance criteria to reflect testing considerations. Example if doing BDD, adding  Given-When-Then  format to user story template.
• Work towards automating the execution of test scenarios. This automation ensures that scenarios are consistently executed and serve as regression tests.
• Make executing test scenarios a part of your team's Definition of Done (DoD) for user stories. This ensures that no user story is considered complete until all associated test scenarios have been executed and passed.
• Make sure the team integrates tests into our Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline.
• Encourage regular review and feedback sessions for test scenarios. Ensure that they accurately reflect the desired behaviour of the application and are kept up-to-date as requirements evolve.
• Focus on quality metrics to track our progress and measure our improvements.
• Continuously refine and adapt our processes based on feedback and lessons learned. Our test strategy should be about continuous improvement and collaboration.

What we’re looking for

Technical skills

• Proficient in quality assurance principles, theories, and concepts. Understanding of the different types of tests and their role (unit, integration, functional, etc.).
• Able to establish and execute efficient test strategies. Able to design and perform functional and corner case tests.
• Hands on experience with testing and/or monitoring network equipment.
• Experience with networking concepts and protocols is a must (Ethernet, TCP/IP ).
• Experience with Mobile device testing

• Experience/knowledge of an automation tool is a plus.

Required aptitudes

• Autonomous and resourceful.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills are a must.
• Quick learner.
• Enjoy working on challenging problems

Must have

Pertinent experience: 8-12 years QA testing in a high technology environment.

Language requirements:
French and English (verbal and written).

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, or Electrical Engineering.

Other: Must be legally authorized to work in Canada

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Résumé du poste

En tant qu'analyste QA Senior, votre principale responsabilité sera de réaliser des tests sur nos produits de test de protocol es réseau.

Vos missions

Au sein d'une équipe Agile Scrum, vous contribuerez au développement de nouvelles fonctionnalités pour notre gamme de produits de test réseau. Votre rôle d'expert QA sera de :

mettre en œuvre les stratégies de test dès les premières étapes du processus de développement. Pour garantir leur mise en œuvre réussie, vous devrez notamment former les membres de votre équipe (développeurs, testeurs, Product Owners et Scrum Masters) à notre stratégie de test et à ses avantages pour le développement.

Vous expliquerez les principes, les concepts et le format de rédaction des scénarios de test.

Vous travaillerez avec l'équipe pour sélectionner les outils les plus adaptés à notre stack technique et aux préférences de l'équipe.

Vous contribuerez à définir le moment et la manière dont les scénarios sont…