QA Integration and TDD Tester

Job Title : Integration and TDD Tester

Type : Permanent Full Time or 6 month contract (Permanent, full time is preferred)

Location : Oakville, ON

Starts : Jan 2012

The Integration and TDD Tester will be responsible for Functional and Unit functions. The Tester will partner with developers on a 1 : 5 ratio. Skills required consist of : C# Sharp, Java, .net, JDE, Unit test tools, JUnit, NUnit and any experience with continuous integration, automated test suites would be ideal.

The focus of these test developers is to participate in Pair Programming with the developers to alleviate the need for the developers to conduct all their own unit tests. They will be required to set up the test frameworks, write test cases / as well as work with the developers to write test cases. Technical tester will not just understand the business requirements and test against the requirements, but will also test for the technical aspects of the project in terms of creating tests for database interactions, for hardware optimization and the interaction with all devices, interaction with the workflow in terms of covering all states and transitions and performing stress / load testing and stabilizing benchmarks.

Roles and responsibilities

• Work with development and test teams to test for functional, performance (load, stress, and longevity), smoke and sanity tests
• Analyze test results, isolate performance issues and identify areas of optimization
• Analyze product requirements, create test plans, and identify deliverables
• Create and Execute automated test scripts and manual test scripts as needed, maintain the scripts and publish test results
• Isolate problems, report bugs, regress and close defects
• Create Benchmarks and Sizing models
• Understand the architecture and the design of the software to add additional test cases into the test framework
• Understand the tools and technologies that are in use
• Create patch scripts that can be installed on top of latest releases.
• Contribute to the overall quality in the life cycle of the product
• Identify new approaches towards software deployment from development to QA environments for continuous code integration / deployment
• Maintain QA environments and be able to do root cause analysis on defects
• Work with engineering and manufacturing teams to identify software Versus Hardware defects and maintain

traceability

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