QA Engineer (Mobile Devices)

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.
With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.
Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:
• Application Development
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Business/Systems Analysis
• Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence
• Infrastructure & Network Services
• Risk Management & Compliance
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Security & Privacy
Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)
• Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)
• ICAP (Contractor Payroll)
• Flextrack (Vendor Management System)

As Senior Quality Engineer you will work directly with the product and development teams to create the most effective testing strategy and be part of the Test Driven Development lifecycle. You will be working with enthusiastic and experienced peers in an environment that facilitates delivering industry-leading solutions with both creative-edge and high quality. 

What You Will Be Doing 

• Develop testing strategy for wearable platform SDK, Public APIs(application program interface) and reference applications 
• Design and execute test cases to maximize platform quality, performance and scalability 
• Discover as many vulnerabilities as possible, including stress testing and corner case exposure 
• Work side-by-side with the development team to triage issues and provide technical solutions 
• Test wearable software executing on both Android OS 4.4+ and Apple iOS 7+ companion devices 
• Create and implement automations for test frameworks on the mobile platforms 
• Provide constructive feedback on platform quality and consistency to the product team 
• Collaborating with remote global teams, including product, device, application, cloud, test, etc. 

• Hands-on expertise in black- and white-box test methodologies for large-scale mobile platforms 
• Experience validating public-facing APIs, cloud-based performance and scalability testing 
• Working knowledge of Android and/or Apple iOS mobile platforms 
• Strong triage skills diagnosing issues in a multi-tier platform architecture (device, application, cloud) 
• Experience creating, executing and automating tests for Android and iOS native applications 
• Working knowledge of build and release management, continuous integration (Jenkins), defect tracking (JIRA), debugging tools, test automation 
• Understanding of core principles of OOD, concurrency, multi-threading, defensive programming 
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related major, or equivalent experience 
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to juggle multiple priorities with tenacity and initiative 
• Knowledge of Android Frameworks and Android SDK 
• Working knowledge of iOS, Swift, Swift, Objective-C, C# and Apple ecosystem 
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQLite/Core Data 
• Ability to understand and parse XML, JSON and serialized data 
• Experience with Bluetooth LE protocol 
• Master’s Degree or another advanced degree is preferred