Junior Cloud QA Specialist (SDET) - 13-month term contract (maternity leave)
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hiring salary for this position is $85,000. · Contract
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- Pay
- Hiring salary for this position is $85,000.
- Job type
- Contract
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- Experience
- 2-4 years of professional experience in automated testing on a cloud platform with video, analytics or AI
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Opportunity:
March Networks is building video-enabled business intelligence solutions in the cloud and is looking for a Junior Test Specialist (SDET) with cloud and analytics experience to help us deliver with impeccable quality. We are looking for a person who is passionate about quality, test automation and technology, possesses a collaborative mindset, and has a deep curiosity as to how things work ‘under the hood' as well as an ability to create and maintain a high-quality, effective test plan.
If you enjoy pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo, and working with the latest technologies, then we would love to hear from you!
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and execute test plans covering our cloud-based video management and analytics solution
- Help build and manage world-class customer-like environments comprising a mixture of cloud applications and equipment
- Deliver value to our customers by validating business workflows across the product suite
- Design, write and execute end-to-end manual (30%) and automated (70%) tests and manage results
- Write crisp, reproducible defect and observation tickets and collaborate with development, product management and other stakeholders to get them resolved.
- Help develop the test automation roadmap for our solution with the goal of increasing automation coverage across the board
- Discover and analyze quality gaps and proactively take action to fix them
- Manage quality by owning defects, production incidents, user-workflow test plans, orchestrating automated testing with the teams, and prioritizing technical debt and architectural spikes where appropriate to improve the quality of the product suite
- Comply with established automation guidelines and standards for code consistency and maintainability
- College or bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering program
- 2-4 years of professional experience in automated testing on a cloud platform with video, analytics or AI
- Understanding of cloud computing platforms, web, mobile, desktop apps, hardware platforms, API and database testing technologies
- Strong test planning and test execution skills
- Knowledge of automated testing industry best practices and trends
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced international environment
- Experience with web automation frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright
- Familiarity with Linux/Windows development environments
- Capable of delivering on multiple competing priorities with little supervision
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience with agile testing
- Demonstrated ability to ‘wear the customer's hat'
- Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset
- Familiarity with Python, JavaScript and/or Java
- Familiarity with Jenkins, Git, Confluence and Jira
- Ability to speak and understand Mandarin
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Applicants can make their accommodation needs known to us in their application.
Please note March Networks uses AI as part of the recruitment process.
Hiring salary for this position is $85,000. This is an existing vacancy with one opening.
This is a 13-month term contract position.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Create and execute test plans for cloud-based video management and analytics products, including customer-like environments and end-to-end manual and automated testing. Manage defects and quality gaps, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help expand automation coverage while maintaining testing standards.
Requirements
Requires a college or bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering and 2–4 years of professional experience in automated testing on a cloud platform, ideally involving video, analytics, or AI. Candidates should have strong test planning and execution skills, familiarity with web automation frameworks such as Cypress or Playwright, and the ability to analyze problems and manage competing priorities.
Skills
- Automated Testing
- Manual Testing
- Test Planning
- Test Execution
- Cloud Computing
- End-to-End Testing
- Cypress
- Playwright
- API Testing
- Database Testing
- Video Analytics
- Defect Management
- Linux
- Windows
- Agile Testing
- Python
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Categories
- Software
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Engineering
Keywords
- Cloud Computing
- Video Management
- Video Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Test Automation
- Manual Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Test Plans
- Quality Assurance
- Cypress
- Playwright
- API Testing
- Database Testing
- Web Applications
- Mobile Applications
- Desktop Applications
- Hardware Platforms
- Linux
- Windows
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Jenkins
- Git
- Confluence
- Jira
- Agile Testing
- Defect Management
- Production Incidents