Software QA Engineer: Skylight Analytics

Role: Software QA Engineer: Skylight Analytics

Remote work with occasional presence required at our office in Ottawa, Ontario, if/when needed.

Location: Ottawa or Montreal, Canada

Type of Employment: Permanent, Full Time

Who we are

Accedian is a company providing exceptional end-to-end visibility over network performance for millions of services over major Tier-1 and Tier-2 networks globally, allowing our customers to tune and optimize their networks to provide the best possible performance and user experience.

Accedian offers

• A competitive salary and vacation plan
• A great place to work with free parking, a dynamic team and cohesion
• An office that is near public transportation
• Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home
• A monthly allowance for gym use. Your health and well-being are important to us!
• Payment for membership fees if you are a part of a specific field governed by an Order
• Payment for tuition and training costs related to your role
• A group insurance plan, covered at 50% to 100% by Accedian, depending on location
• Offices worldwide, with the possibility of mobility
• A social committee that organizes many exciting social activities!

What we do

Accedian develops best-in-class network monitoring solutions, based on award-winning hardware, FPGA and software solutions that are deployed in carrier Ethernet networks and on enterprise premises.

What you will do

We want you to be a part of an awesome international team as we fulfill the direction of Accedian’s Analytics product line. We operate in a “You build it, you run it” mode, where everyone is actively participating in maintaining and improving our software. 

A software quality assurance engineer helps meet deadlines by breaking up the development process into attainable testing goals and relaying any issues back to the development and product teams or leaders. As part of the team you will design automated code tests, identify software bugs, and help to resolve the problems identified. You will also collaborate with other members of the team to create effective tests for new software

But more importantly, we want to provide you with an environment where you can exercise and grow your technical, business and interpersonal skills in a friendly environment that strongly believes that software is people, and that we invest in software by primarily investing in our team.

Your initial responsibilities will include (but will be far from limited to) the following topics:

• Demonstrate an ability to work through new and difficult issues and contribute to the solution as needed
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements
• Data acquisition, a high-throughput, low-latency real-time data feeds platform
• Analytics Engine
• Database and data models, from TimeSeries DBs to GraphDBs
• Multidimensional and scalable time sensitive query design and optimization 
• Participate in the design and maintenance of local clusters and cloud deployments

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in manual testing experience
• Experience with analyzing logs 
• Ability to create, update and review test documentation
• Strong work ethic with a POSITIVE attitude and a PASSION for Quality Assurance.
• Excellent time management skills
• You THRIVE at solving problems and enjoy a good challenge
• You are an out-of-the box thinker
• Team Player with EXCELLENT interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
• You have a “CAN DO” attitude
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Interest and ability to learn new tools

Day-to-Day Activities

• Proactively drive all testing activities
• Execute manual regression tests for new software versions to ensure product functionality and investigate any issues that appear during testing
• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan
• Participate with the development team and product management to understand upcoming new features and create new test cases
• Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes
• Collaborate closely with other team and cross-functional departments
• Continuously improve processes

Schedule

• 8 hours per day
• Monday to Friday

Ready to join our team?

Please send your resume/CV and cover letter to [email protected] to submit your interest! We look forward to hearing from you, future Accedian!