As a member of our Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in a fully agile environment. You will be expected to raise the quality bar in an already strong and energetic team. Coming up with tools, techniques and approaches that improve the testability of our code. You will also be developing automated tests from the unit level through to the API and even the UI layers, using C#, Javascript and a variety of tools, frameworks and test harnesses. Some manual testing may also be required depending on the nature of the functionality being tested.

We are seeking an experienced Associate Software Test Engineer who thinks about how things break as well as how to develop code that works. The ideal candidate will have some programming prowess, Javascript juggling, systems thinking talent, some DB delving deftness, debugging diligence and finishing it all off with some exploratory testing expertise.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop new manual & automated test using test driven approaches
• Design and develop tools, techniques and utilities to facilitate testing
• Devise mocks, fakes, stubs etc to improve testability and isolation of code
• Perform code and unit test reviews with developers
• Monitor code coverage metrics and report on trends
• Monitor automated regression testing results and report on trends
• Maintain existing test automation code
• You thrive in a team environment and are comfortable working with remote team members across different time zones and geographies
• Become an expert in the domain of your team

What You’ll Bring

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• 1+ years of software development in test experience
• Completion of a post-secondary diploma or degree
• Expertise with:
  • Automation tools (Puppeteer, Playwright, etc)
  • Web and client/server design concepts
  • REST and other types of APIs
• Experience with:
  • SaaS (Software as a Service)
  • Databases (SQL Server, Postgres)
  • Behaviour Driven Development
  • Rapid Software Testing techniques
  • Security Testing techniques
  • Object-oriented software development
• Familiarity with some combination of development languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, and Golang
• White box testing experience

Additional details:
The typical salary for this role is $70,000 CAD.

The Good Stuff:

• Amazing growth and learning opportunities with a fast-growing Canadian SaaS company that is a world leader in its industry

• Best-in-class company paid benefits for you and your family - offering medical, dental, vision, RRSP matching in Canada, a 401K in the US, and more.

• Unlimited Vacation: Yep, it’s true. Take vacation when you want it, how you want it. Designed to better fit your evolving needs.

• Summer Fridays: Fridays are a day off during July and August. To help provide better balance in the summer months focusing on employee wellness.

• Recognized as one of the Best Workplaces™ in British Columbia for 2024 by Great Place to Work

• Recognized in 2023 as one of the Best Workplaces for Women®

• Recognized as a Top Employer by British Columbia's Top Employers 2023

About Alida

Alida believes in a world w customers are respected as the ultimate source of truth. Because knowing the whole truth about your customers can help companies make better decisions and drive long term loyalty and growth.

That’s why Alida helps innovative brands create highly engaged research communities to gather feedback that empowers better customer experiences and product innovation.

Leading companies like HBOMax, Adobe, Warner Bros. Discovery, Twitch and lululemon depend on Alida’s community-centered research platform to deliver fast and reliable customer feedback at scale so they can build better products, refine user experiences and test marketing campaigns.

Learn more at www.alida.com.

We can’t wait to meet you!

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