Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Autodesk•Vancouver, BC

9d•CA$71,000 - CA$104,500

About The Position

This position is for a software engineer with a passionate commitment to quality software. The candidate shall work closely with software developers and take an active role in ensuring that the components meet the highest standards of quality. Applying strong development experience, this engineer will make significant contributions to the quality of the software component delivered by this development organization. The candidate must implement and maintain a coherent, progressive, "code-based" strategy for white box testing of components. The engineer shall also be required to participate in black box testing of the implemented functionality as needed. The person filling this position will be responsible for the component level testing of subsystems of Autodesk's next generation AutoCAD product.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Civil/Mechanical/Architecture, or other engineering discipline
General understanding of software design principles
Strong programming and problem solving skills
Programming experience in C++, VB, .NET/C#, XML, Unicode, or Java
Strong communication skills
Strong written and oral communication skills

Nice To Haves

Master of Science
Professional work/internship experience
Knowledge of Selenium, Win 32, and Microsoft UI automation APIs
Knowledge of AutoCAD or other competitive CAD software
Knowledge of graphics and display systems

Responsibilities

Using software development tools, develops and executes test strategies with the objective of finding defects during the software development process and assuring quality products
Ensures functionality, usability, stability, capacity, and performance of products
Creates plans to test features, functionality, or whole products at the code level, including unit tests, functional tests, performance tests, scenario tests, workflow tests, install tests, and interoperability tests
Documents test design, test plans, and test results. Ensures that test plans are usable by others. Participates in code and test plan reviews with rest of QA and development team
Executes test plans to find defects in product or features of products
Confirms defects and works with product development team to prioritize defects and fix them
Logs defects in database for tracking and reporting
Receives defect reports from other sources including customers, product support, newsgroups, and confirms and tracks specific issue for use by development
Participates in feature team meetings throughout the product development life cycle
Works with development team on spec design to proactively recognize and prevent issues from developing
Tests features to ensure they will interact correctly with other features in production
Provides input into feature design
Estimates software testing tasks, and participates in software estimation process
Writes code to run automated tests and deliver results
Conducts coverage analysis and monitors the code (underlying code being touched)
Designs and develops harnesses or test suites to run tests including API tests, VBA tests, C++, and .NET tests
May use or adapt commercial off the shelf software test tools or develop custom applications
Creates or uses vertical harnesses to handle multiple applications and analyze their interactions
Performs manual testing of features/GUI as necessary in order to validate CAD functionality, and to test usability
Develops custom components and applications for Autodesk’s CAD software applications
Conducts API testing to ensure sound interface for third party developers
May conduct localization testing
Creates pseudo builds to verify string translations and ensure all functionality works the same as in English version
May also conduct globalization tests by running English product on other operating systems in other languages
Provides input to ReadMe file content to address existing defects and issues in installed software
Works with system administrator to change or alter system configuration or environment in order to run specific tests
Restores configuration after testing
May support beta programs or QA driven customer events, including mass testing efforts such as test fests