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Quality Assurance Specialist
Date Posted: March 5, 2010
Employer: Internationally Trained Professionals Internship Program
City: Kitchener
Type: Full Time
Wage:
Description: Note about this position: The employer has agreed to receive applications from qualified candidates of the Internationally Trained Professionals Internship Program, facilitated by the Waterloo Region Immigrant Employment Network (WRIEN) and Conestoga College.  
 
The Internship Program is set up to assist internationally trained professionals who live in Waterloo Region.  
 
Candidates must be registered with one of the participating community employment services agencies, and applications must be submitted by the candidate's EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLOR.  
 
Quality Assurance Specialist  
Posted: March 1, 2010  
Number of Available Positions: 1  
 
http://www.miovision.com/company/careers.php  
 
Are you passionate about quality? Do you love planning and designing quality systems? Are you interested in implementing test platforms for large scale applications? Do you want to have a direct impact on the success of the company? Do you want to be a part of the hottest emerging tech company in Waterloo Region?  
 
Welcome to Miovision Young. Driven. Successful. Thats our company, is it you?  
 
Miovision is looking to hire a professional software tester with substantial experience with both manual, automatic, and usability testing. The ideal candidate will have an exciting opportunity to build Miovisions QA team and processes from the ground up.  
 
As a Quality Assurance Specialist, will be working directly with engineering, project teams, technical support, and product management. You will be responsible for contributing to all aspects of software quality and testing, including verifying product specification, usability, manual testing, and automated testing. The successful candidate for this position will be responsible for planning, setting up and executing QA and regression testing of our software products as well as coordinating and executing testing for our hardware product.  
 
We offer a dynamic and fun environment, competitive compensation, equity options, opportunity to get in at the ground level at a growing company and the chance to be a part of Waterloos next star technology company.  
 
 
Our ideal candidate will have most or all of the following requirements:  
# Bachelors or Masters in a technical discipline or relevant experience  
# Top notch testing skills. You can write and run test plans, setup test environments, create and execute test cases, and perform black-box testing. You have a high standard for what excellent software looks like, and are prepared to hold us to your standards.  
# An amazing ability to make just about everything break  
# Problem solving abilities and an ability to work effectively in a variety of roles with both technical and non-technical personnel  
# Experience with QA software and tools including automated testing tools, and bug tracking software  
# Experience testing web, desktop, and distributed systems  
# Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal  
 
Assets:  
# Familiar with Agile practices, specifically Scrum  
# Experience working directly with customers  
# Experience evaluating, implementing, using, and maintaining test frameworks  
# General knowledge of C#, HTML, .NET, and JavaScript  
# Ability to evaluate, mentor, and train new testers  
 
How To Apply: Applications must be submitted by the candidate's EMPLOYMENT COUNSELLOR. If you are an internationally trained professional living in Waterloo Region, and you are not working with an employment counsellor, please feel free to contact The Working Centre to request an appointment at 519-743-1151 or appointments@theworkingcentre.org.  
Deadline: March 12, 2010
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