Job Description

Gatekeeper Systems is a market leader in the development of mobile digital recorders for a worldwide marketplace.

Gatekeeper designs and manufactures a range of digital recorder products that utilize the latest embedded processors, video compression technologies and play back applications to meet demanding needs in commercial and military market spaces. The company has a need to fill a system / software tester position.

This role involves full life cycle testing from initial design to product release. The ideal candidate will have experience in a product development environment with a background in the development of test strategies for products spanning PC based applications, web-based applications and firmware. This is an ideal opportunity for the right person to bring industry best practices in testing and quality assurance to a dynamically evolving product development team.

This is a great position for a candidate who is just starting or is early in their career. The position is well suited to a candidate who wants to work with technology with a focus on bringing high quality, bug free products to market.

This job is located in Abbotsford BC. In general, it is expected that the successful candidate will be in the office daily. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic the test team does work out of their home. Once trained on product and test processes & procedures, the employee will work out of their home until the virus is better controlled and it is safe to increase the number of employees working in the office.

Commuting will be easier if you live east of Burnaby or South of the Fraser River

Main Duties:

• Execute test plans, and test cases and prepare bug reports using JIRA and/or TRAC
• Support customer service with handling, resolving and documenting reported customer problems
• Attend development design and review meeting so the following can be accomplished:

o Create and execute test plans and test cases

o Provide feedback on usability

o Document defects and provide clarification on defects found

Essential Requirements:

• Degree or Diploma in a software/computer technology or related discipline or equivalent experience
• 1 to 2 years of direct test experience with Linux and/or windows-based software systems and a background in test methodologies
• Exposure to full life cycle product test in a product development environment with system test experience in firmware and application software and their interactions.
• Knowledge of networking systems, protocols etc.
• SCM experience utilising bug tracking and source code versioning systems.
• Self starter and able to work with minimal supervision and to tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Proficient with standard Microsoft Office tools; Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
• Knowledge of Linux and the following Microsoft OS's, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows Server, etc.