Career Opportunities - Software QA Specialist

Job Title: Software QA Specialist

Location: Ottawa, ON

GridIron Software is building a new tool with a slick user interface, targeted at people who work as creative professionals. These are the folks who generate special effects for movies and TV, who create eye-popping graphics for magazines and advertisements, and build slick websites. These people use products such as the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, PremierePro, Flash/DreamWeaver and all the others), Apple Final Cut Pro (and Motion, SoundTrackPro, Shake and the others), Avid MediaComposer (and ProTools, SoftImage, etc), AutoDesk, QuarkXPress, etc.

GridIron Software is building tools to help creative pros do what they do best.

We are looking for an experienced person to join our team of highly motivated experts and assist in the development of tools for the verification and support of our new and existing products.

Specific Duties:

New software testing and quality assurance including test plan creation and execution.
Perform testing for bug fixes and new features that have been introduced into the software.
Develop testcase automation suite for Product Platform and GUI
Formal Product Acceptance Testing and Regression
Develop installation, update, healthcheck and design support toolset
Oversee loadbuild, release delivery function, sw repository mgmt, and Software Development Environment

Qualifications:

Knowledge of Mac and Windows operating systems
Experience with creative pro applications an asset
Experience in software verification
Experience in software support
Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
Strong interpersonal skills required
Scripting (bash/sh, expect, perl, Javascript)
Experience in C, C++ programming an asset
Experience with automated test tools an asset

Other Assets:

Experience with products in the Digital Content Creation field (including Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Fusion, Photoshop)
Experience with products in the Multimedia Design field (using Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver)
Capable of working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines
Comfortable working in a team environment as well as independently
Entrepreneurial spirit
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

To apply for this position please send your cover letter and resume to careers@gridironsoftware.com. We regret that only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Compensation: comensurate with experience
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