Junior QA Specialist

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Department: Research & Development

March Networks is an established global leader in the video surveillance industry and works with the world’s largest retailers and banking institutions. Our goal is to create a positive working environment where all of our employees can thrive. When you join our team, you’ll enjoy flexibility and support for a healthy work-life balance, as well as the professional development opportunities needed to advance your career. At March Networks, we value your hard work, creativity and your passionate desire to deliver only the best to our customers, partners and each other.

Opportunity

March Networks builds enterprise-level video-enabled business intelligence solutions and is looking for a Junior QA Specialist to help us deliver with impeccable quality. We are looking for a person who is passionate about quality, test automation and technology, possesses a collaborative and ‘can-do’ mindset, and has a deep curiosity as to how things work ‘under the hood’ as well as an ability to create and maintain a high-quality test plan to help deliver a great experience for our customers.

If you enjoy hands-on technical work, pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo, and working with the latest technologies, we would love to hear from you!

Duties and Responsibilities

Build and execute test plans covering our video management and analytics solution, including verticals such as Transportation.

Help build and manage world-class customer-like environments comprising a mixture of cloud and on-prem applications and equipment.

Configure and maintain lab/test network infrastructure, including switches, routers, subnets, and IP address management (DHCP, Static, DNS), firewall rules and network connectivity across test environments.

Deliver value to our customers by validating business workflows across the product suite.

Write crisp, reproducible defect and observation tickets and collaborate with development, product management and other stakeholders to get them resolved.

Discover and analyze quality gaps and proactively take action to fix them.

Manage quality by owning defects, production incidents, user-workflow test plans, orchestrating automated testing with the teams, and prioritizing technical debt and architectural spikes where appropriate to improve the quality of the product suite.

Qualifications

College or bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent

1 to 2 years professional experience in QA on an enterprise platform.

Strong networking and technical troubleshooting skills

Strong end-to-end test planning and test execution skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced international environment.

Self-directed, proactive and resourceful, capable of delivering on multiple priorities

Familiarity with Linux and Windows development environments

Understanding of computing platforms, web, mobile, desktop apps, hardware platforms, API and database testing technologies

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Differentiators

• Demonstrated experience with agile testing.
• Demonstrated ability to ‘wear the customer’s hat’.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset.

Familiarity with Python, JavaScript and/or Java.

Familiarity with Jenkins, Git, Confluence and Jira

Why Work at March Networks?

• Global Exposure
• Medical/Dental benefits offered immediately from Day 1
• Health club reimbursement
• Professional development support
• Company holiday closure

March Networks is an equal-opportunity employer and supports a diverse workforce.

Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Applicants can make their accommodation needs known to us in their application.

Please note March Networks uses AI as part of the recruitment process.

Hiring salary range for this position is between $80,000 - $85,000. This is an existing vacancy with one opening.