- Location: This opportunity has the ability to be remotely based within Canada (except for QC) or onsite/hybrid/remote in the Vancouver BC Lower Mainland.
- Annual Base Salary: $66300 $74000 CAD
- Please note that employment is contingent upon the successful completion of reference checks and background checks including a Canadian criminal background check.
Application Instructions:
- Please upload your application files in PDF format only.
Quality Analyst I
Safe Software is looking for an enthusiastic Quality Analyst I to join our FME Form product group. As a Quality Analyst I youll play an important role in ensuring that the FME product platform meets our standard of excellence for all of our customers.
Primary responsibilities include working with developers to design and develop test plans and test datasets and executing both manual test cases and creating and code reviewing automated UI tests in Python. The role also includes testing complex systems and identifying problems before they can impact our customers troubleshooting and reproducing issues reported by users
About The Team
Quality Analysts are embedded directly within each FME Form product development team. As part of the FME Form product group youll join a group of collaborative development teams composed of team leaders developers quality analysts and student interns who work together as a team and alongside product managers and user experience designers on complex technical projects that provide direct value to our users.
As a part of this closeknit and diverse team you will work together with internal stakeholders to maintain and extend our flagship FME Form products that delight customers and empower them to author dataflows that can be shared reused and integrated with the FME Platform.
What Youll Be Doing
As a Quality Analyst I you will:
- Guide product quality in collaboration with the development team using Kanban
- Write detailed comprehensive and wellstructured test plans and test cases
- Create and review automated GUI test development in Squish using Python
- Create clear and concise defect reports and enhancement requests
- Provide input on user experience including performance to product development
- Set up test environments using AWS Docker Kubernetes ArcGIS Online etc.
- Participate in quality community meetings to share ideas and concepts
- Explore new testing technical areas: containerization web services databases etc.
- Leverage AI tools in your daily tasks to improve learning and productivity
Qualifications Skills and Competencies
Quality Analysts come from a variety of backgrounds with diverse skills and knowledge. Those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following.
Required skills:
- A passion for high quality software and the application of quality standards
- An internal motivation and proactive approach to helping others
- A practical understanding of testing concepts and techniques
- Ability to think critically and curiously to solve complex problems
- Ability to thoroughly test applications and features with a high attention to detail
- Able to work independently or collaborate to solve problems
- 12 years of previous experience working on in a testing role or relevant work experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including active listening
Desired skills:
- A Bachelors degree or diploma in a Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of education and related experience
- Experience with manual functional and performance testing of desktop applications
- Experience with Squish or similar automated GUI test development framework
- Experience with Python or similar language for authoring automated tests
- Experience with Qt or a similar objectoriented GUI toolkit
What You Can Expect
When you choose a career with Safe Software youre also choosing
- Meaningful Work: Make a profound impact across our business workplace and data integration product.
- A Supportive Environment: Feel empowered to share your ideas and implement them with high autonomy and team support.
- Social Responsibility: Become part of a team that finds meaningful ways to give back. Take paid time off to volunteer for one of our Safeorganized opportunities that align with our core community initiatives.
- Learning & Career Development: We believe in your continuous learning and growth. Take advantage of an annual learning budget and training programs paid for by Safe.
- Flexible Working Hours: Flexible and remotefriendly work arrangements to fit your lifestyle. Work when you want and how you want to.
- WorkLife Balance: Theres no place for burnout at Safe. Maintain a healthy balance of your personal and work life without splitting yourself in two. Enjoy 3 weeks of vacation to recharge plus an additional paid 6 seasonal days off per year.
- Health & Wellness: Extended health dental health or lifestyle spending and counseling benefits from day 1. Thats right no waiting period.
- Family is important: We are dedicated to supporting our employees through parenthood and offer a Parental Leave TopUp Program for new parents through childbirth or adoption.
- Shared Success: Share in Safes success with our biannual profit sharing and RRSP/TFSA matching program.
- An Accessible Commute: Regardless of your commute method were located close to public transit and provide complimentary parking and bike storage for our team!
About Safe Software
Safe Software transforms organizations with FME the only AllData AnyAI Enterprise Integration Platform connecting all your data anywhere at any velocity. With over 30 years of expertise and 25000 enterprise customers across 125 countries we simplify your data journey wherever it leads.
Founded in 1993 Safe is headquartered in Surrey BC with over 200 team members and counting. Were always looking for talented individuals with diverse backgrounds who are determined to learn and grow. Are you ready to join the team
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Safe Software is an equal opportunity employer and we truly believe that innovation and strength begin with diversity and inclusion. We welcome all candidates regardless of race gender identity or expression sexual orientation age ability disability national or ethnic origin political belief religion or family status. Should you require accommodations during the recruitment process please contact .
Required Experience:
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