Are you a strong independent worker who loves to be a part of a team? Are you passionate about building flawless products? Do you enjoy working in an experimental and collaborative environment? If yes, then you could be our new QA Coordinator!  
 
Company Profile
 
CARPROOF, a unit of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), is a world-class data company, providing products and services that create insight through information for the automotive industry. Offering solutions in vehicle history, appraisal, valuation and more, the CARPROOF name is synonymous with trusted, impartial and comprehensive used vehicle data. CARPROOF’s vehicle history products are used by dealerships, consumers, major auctions, governments, insurance providers and police agencies across Canada, to help users buy and sell vehicles with full transparency. CARPROOF’s vehicle valuation portfolio includes Canadian Red Book, which is relied upon for accurate vehicle valuations by governments and insurance companies. Based in London, Ontario and founded in 2000, CARPROOF has been named one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, and was also honoured with Deloitte’s 2013 Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards. For more information about CARPROOF, visit www.carproof.com.
 
 
Job Details
 
Reporting to the Development Operations Manager, CARPROOF is excited to announce the new position of Quality Assurance Coordinator. 
 
The successful candidate will provide an impartial review of technical project deliverables, Test Strategies, Test Plans, in order to ensure the highest of quality in our products. This person will be demonstrating QA best practices as well as providing mentoring to their development team. Our products are developed in an agile methodology, so this person will be actively participating in requirement documenting, planning, testing and demo as well as provide expert advice in cross-departmental meetings. You will be a key player in automated testing, planning and implementation.
 
You are a computer science specialist, who has 3 - 5 years of software testing/quality assurance experience under your belt, with exceptional communication skills. Exposure and experience in automated testing would be considered a huge asset. You are the type of person who is extremely detail oriented, organized, super friendly and easy to talk to. You can easily identify when you need to ask for help and share concerns with the team.
 
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has QA testing experience, to excel in and grow your career in an agile environment.
 
 
Position Responsibilities

• Working closely with an Agile team, to create Test Plan and Test Cases and automation test strategy based on requirements, design documents to ensure all product functionality, both functional and Non-functional requirements are met
• Identify technical test data requirements; configure and maintain test data to support testing
• Conduct manual testing; Log, track and resolve product defects with the Agile team;
• Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, integration, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods
• Design and develop automated testing for functional, regression, load testing and performance tuning
• Develops and maintains the automation testing framework for functional and performance automated testing
• Use established QA processes and best practices, and continually improve upon them
• Make recommendations for improvement of applications to software developers
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to team, project stakeholders and management
• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies

 
Requirements

• 3 – 5 years of quality assurance experience in an IT capacity
• Post-secondary education preferred
• Very adept at problem analysis and providing problem solving solutions
• Experience in software development/ automated testing, ideally with C #, JUnit, and SQL 
• Experience with test automation tools (e.g. Microsoft Test Manager, Selenium) and automated regression testing is a strong asset
• Experience with QA in the context of Agile software development is a strong asset
• Outstanding interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Superior organizational and planning skills
• Great team player as well as being able to work alone with no need for micro-management

 
CARPROOF’s core values are based upon upon integrity, gratitude, passion, innovation, performance and respect. The successful candidate will share these values.
 
This full-time position is based in CARPROOF’s London, Ontario head office and compensation includes base salary commensurate with experience, performance bonuses and health/dental benefits.
 
If you are interested in applying for this position, please visit our website.
 
https://www.carproof.com/about-carproof/work-at-carproof/current-positions
 
We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

CARPROOF is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process. Should you require any accommodation, please indicate this when you apply and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.