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D2L · 1 month ago

Software Test Developer - Future Consideration

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Full-time

Hybrid

Entry, Mid Level

CA$70K/yr - CA$85K/yr

D2L is a cloud company modernizing education and transforming the way the world learns. They are seeking a Software Test Developer who will contribute to quality assurance in software development, working collaboratively within an Agile team to enhance product quality and user experience.

EdTechEducationE-LearningMobile

Culture & Values

Responsibilities

Take charge of your team’s overall quality strategy; help the team to adapt and optimize for quality up front, rather than providing a safety net to catch failures

Leverage your strengths to help your team improve quality in various ways: perhaps you’ll contribute to product code, participate in code reviews, design and write automated tests, plan and execute exploratory testing, implement reliability engineering strategies, or take on any other activities that will help your team increase confidence in what they’re building

Coach other members of your team about how to approach quality-related activities, and foster a mature quality culture within the team

Be a compelling communicator of quality concerns

You are an expert in finding defects and design issues in software during all phases of the software development process

You have a high bar for quality, software performance, and security

You create and nurture feedback loops to provide information for continuous improvement of testing

You have coding (Swift, Objective-C, C#, Java) and/or scripting skills (JavaScript, Python, Perl, PowerShell) to enable you to read production code and contribute to test automation

You identify risks and gaps in analysis and test coverage through sound critical thinking

You design effective automation tests and contribute to automation frameworks

You collaborate effectively, helping your team to develop testable features, and identifying test tasks during design

You are passionate about our users and are their advocates in the development process

Join one of D2L's Communities of Practice to sharpen your skills and discuss big picture issues

Attend one of many internal lunch and learns

Attend conferences and workshops

Propose approaches to solve common problems - we welcome all new ideas

Mentor and learn

Be an active member of the testing community, always pushing the boundaries of testing methodologies

Qualification

Software TestingTest AutomationCoding SkillsAgile DevelopmentQuality AssuranceCollaborationCommunicationCritical Thinking

Required