Test Engineer

Netskrt is looking for talented, results-driven Test Engineer to join the Netskrt team. This hybrid position is located in downtown Vancouver.

We are a highly motivated team, dedicated to delivering products and services that improve the customer experience when accessing internet video at the edges of the network. We are developing a set of inter-related technologies targeting businesses that offer Wifi to their customers but which have limited bandwidth. You are somebody who enjoys solving problems and has a customer-centric mindset. You should be passionate not only about learning new technologies, but also about running systems and software in the real world. You must enjoy a close-knit team environment of shared responsibility, be a team player and a self-starter. You are a critical thinker; you are passionate about software quality and have excellent testing and problem-solving skills. You have great interpersonal and communication skills.

Netskrt offers the opportunity to obtain hands-on experience with storage, networking, analytics, and cloud technologies. As part of the Netskrt team, you will have the opportunity to design and implement solutions to solve challenging problems in a startup environment; working with accomplished team members and a leadership team with a proven track history of success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be very hands-on and work as part of the development team on day-to-day activities and tasks.
• Creating, developing and implementing test plans and strategies.
• Developing and automating tests for software/system validation.
• Testing and verifying that software meets major functional, architectural and scalability requirements.
• Detecting bugs and software defects.
• Implementing and managing bug tracking system; logging, tracking and reporting on test progress through various cycles of development and testing.
• Provide feedback to the development and product teams regarding quality, risk areas and improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software testing or similar role.
• Deep understanding of QA, the uses and methods of software testing.
• Excellent testing skills (designing test plans and test strategies, writing test cases, executing test cases, logging bugs, verifying bugs).
• Experience with API testing using tools like Postman or RestAssured.
• Experience using test management and bug tracking systems, e.g., TM4J, JIRA.
• Experience developing and using automated testing tools, e.g., Selenium.

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven experience in testing/deploying large scale applications using development environments and tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins.
• Experience working in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Wide knowledge in networking, security, database and cloud systems.
• Experience with caching and CDN (content delivery network) technologies (Netflix, Amazon, Google, Limelight, Akamai, Fastly).
• Data security (TLS/SSL and related ecosystems).