Software Test Specialist II

About the position

Secusmart, a subsidiary of BlackBerry Limited, is the leading expert in the development and implementation of comprehensive anti-eavesdropping solutions for German government agencies and emergency services as well as governments and public authorities worldwide. Comprised of teams operating in Germany, Canada and the United States, we secure enterprise information and applications on today’s most popular mobile devices and platforms, protecting both business and personal data. This opportunity allows those passionate about software quality and testing to work with Secusmart’s secure messaging applications and customers. Our focus on secure communications has always been a strong selling point in our software offering, and as such, and we continue to innovate in this space. The successful candidate will be working within the Secusmart organization to help deliver high quality software releases in regular cadences to our customers. As a member of the testing team, you will be a staunch advocate for software quality who actively participates in new feature testing activities across both Android and iOS and PC platforms. In addition, you’ll also participate in cross-team initiatives to help improve testing processes and deliver value and innovation throughout BlackBerry.

Responsibilities

  • Actively participate in all aspects of our Agile SCRUM software development process, collaborating with testers, developers, UX/doc writers, product management, and other project stakeholders.
  • Perform hands-on in-sprint QA activities to ensure production grade quality that meets internal/external customer specifications and expectations.
  • Analyze and reproduce complex problems within our test environments based off of test results and reported customer inquiries.
  • Design and implement manual and automated test cases and scripts for our applications under test.
  • Depending on your specific skills, talents and areas of interest, we also encourage each of our team members take on special projects to improve process, testing methodologies and/or knowledge sharing activities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related sciences.
  • 5-8 years of experience in software verification and validation (SV&V) activities using Android and iOS mobile apps in Agile environments.
  • Good working knowledge of different types of software testing and it’s applicability to SV&V
  • Capable of comprehensive analysis of technical issues, such as: system performance analysis, client-server issues, and root-cause analysis of issues regardless of source (hardware, system, or software.)
  • Familiarity with the agile SCRUM methodology and continuous integration (i.e. nightly builds and releases).
  • Strong skills in innovative thinking, initiative and collaboration will be used regularly.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including strengths in meeting objectives through influence, facilitation and team building.
  • Comfortable in a geographically dispersed, fast-paced and fun work environment.
  • Demonstrated team player committed to product quality and customer satisfaction.

Nice-to-haves

  • Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence (AI) IDEs and LLMs.
  • Familiarity with Test Rail, Jira and VMWare.
  • Familiarity with Java, Junit, Swift, Appium, Shell Script, Android OS (ADB, Gradle), and Gerrit/Git.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life insurance
  • disability insurance
  • retirement
  • employee share purchase program
  • paid-time-off
  • BlackBerry Variable Incentive Pay (VIP) program
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