Quality Assurance Analyst

QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST

As part of our client's Quality Assurance Department in Montreal, reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, the ideal candidate will be responsible to prepare, develop, and execute manual test strategies. As a Quality Assurance Analyst your role will include the following:

• Prepare testing strategy & develop test cases and plans for GUI and back-end applications.
• Report and document problems encountered during testing (knowledge of BugZilla is an asset).
• Participate in continuous Quality Assurance training and conferences in order to improve quality and productivity within the QA team.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• University degree in computer science or engineering and/or a minimum of 2 years of related QA experience.
• Excellent knowledge of methodologies and technologies in QA areas
• Strong networking, distributed design, and troubleshooting techniques experience.
• Knowledge of the Linux command-line interface.
• At least intermediate knowledge of a modern programming language or modern scripting language
• Proven ability to be structured, organized and detail oriented.
• Strong personal interest in learning new technologies.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

OPTIONAL SKILLS

• Participated in manual GUI application testing.
• Network concepts (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, and other services)
• Linux OS (installation and maintenance)
• CVS
• Perl

TO APPLY

Please include with your application your answers to the following questions:

1. Are you eligible to work in Canada?
2. Describe your level of proficiency in English and French, verbal and written.
3. Describe the difference between automated testing and manual testing. When would you use one over the other?
4. What bug tracking tools have you used? Have you used any free tools?
5. How do you start your QA if there are no requirements?
6. At what point in the project do you stop testing and declare a product ready to release?
7. Provide an example of just one defect that matches the following description: it has high priority and low severity
8. How do you find the IP address of a windows machine?
9. How do you reset the environment variables on a windows machine?
10. In Linux, how can you display the manual page for the hosts (/etc/hosts) file?
11. What's the "usual" programming construct to iterate over a list of items?
12. What's the difference between SSH/FTP/SCP?