Intermediate Test Developer

at  ScanSource Canada Inc

The Test Developer plays a key role in our software development lifecycle and is involved in improving how we manage and deploy our code. Automation testing is a fundamental part of our approach to quality. The role is multifaceted, involving hands-on testing, software test case design, verification and validation, and documentation. As a software tester, you will be responsible for ensuring the overall quality of our products, covering correctness, completeness, functional and nonfunctional suitability, accuracy, integrity, scalability, reliability, and performance.
This role requires a good understanding of software systems and business processes.
Effective communication is extremely important as the position requires collaborating with multiple teams at various levels of technical interest, from designers and developers to project management and other stakeholders. The ability to communicate technical topics effectively is also important.

• Collaborating with the project stakeholders to create the project test plan.
• Developing, executing and maintaining test cases and scenarios, based on requirements documents and technical specifications.
• Ensuring traceability from requirements to Test cases.
• Estimating the testing effort of all assigned projects and tasks.
• Setting up test data in test environments.
• Manually testing development changes in QA environment.
• Documenting and evaluating test results against expected results, identify and document discrepancies and review with the senior staff, analysts and developers.
• Creating and tracking defects to the end of defect lifecycle.
• Assisting in troubleshooting problems reported by users.
• Doing knowledge transfer for new team members.