Quality Assurance, Associate

PTC; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Montreal is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure high-quality standards for IoT platforms and applications. The role involves developing test plans and collaborating with the QA team. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience in quality assurance and be comfortable commuting to the office 2-3 days a week. This position offers a hybrid work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Quality Assurance experience in a software development environment.
• Ability to commute to the Montreal office 2-3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, QA lead, product manager for product releases.
• Provide feedback on product quality and balance quality with delivery.
• Maintain and write automated test suites.
• Work on fast-paced geographically distributed team.

Skills

Hands-on Web UI automated and manual testing experience

Good understanding of automation tools for Web UI

Experience with version control tools like Git, SVN

Experience working with Agile methodologies

Ability to learn new technologies quickly

Functional knowledge on ThingWorx

Job description

Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.

Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow – all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.

Job Location: Montreal, Quebec (not eligible for remote) Hybrid 2-3 days a week.

Job Description: Develops, publishes, and implements test plans. Writes and maintains test automation. Follows quality assurance standards and processes. Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts. Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices and procedures within the software quality assurance field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of quality assurance tasks. Follows disciplined software quality assurance practices.

Impact: The individual will be playing an important role in ensuring high-quality standards across multiple innovative and pivotal projects for IoT platforms and applications. Augmented reality and IoT are significant components of PTC’s strategic direction.

Team: You will be part of the quality assurance team which is responsible for testing IoT platform and applications located in Montreal, QC.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Actively collaborate with developers, QA lead, product manager to shape the product and deliver product releases
• Provide feedback to the team on product quality, call out risks/issues (if any), and can balance quality with time bound delivery with a release perspective
• Maintain and write automated test suites
• Ability to work with the QA lead to come up with a testing strategy for a given release with inputs from the team, if needed.
• Ready to work on the fast-paced geographically distributed team doing frequent releases
• Understand the product domain

Must-Have Skills

• Hands-on Web UI automated and manual testing experience
• Good understanding of different automation tools that can be used for Web UI test automation and command expertise in at least one of them for testing
• Good experience with version control tools like Git, SVN, etc.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and working knowledge of SDLC
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Functional knowledge on ThingWorx would be an added advantage.

Basic Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Quality Assurance experience in a software development environment
• Ability to commute to the Montreal office. 2-3 days a week.

Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.

If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?

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