\nThe Position\n\nThe Quality Assurance Analyst contributes to all phases of Testing Lifecycle through the analysis, design, execution, and maintenance of software test suites. As a Quality Assurance Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, ranging from new and existing front-end web-based (mobile and desktop) applications to back-end API testing. You will work closely with the Product Engineering, Product and Project Management teams to create test cases, execute test suites, and over time potentially create automated test cases for web and mobile applications.\n\nYour Responsibilities\n\n\n* Participation and/or review of documentation and/or test results in all QA test phases such as requirements validation, unit, integration, functional, and regression testing.\n\n* Create manual and potentially automated tests and execute tests for software and systems.\n\n* Execute test plans and scripts / cases that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.\n\n* Participate and collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods and activities.\n\n* Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.\n\n* Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and team members.\n\n* Make recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers.\n\n* Analyze formal test results to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.\n\n* Prepare and / or Create AODA (Accessibility) reports at end of test cycles as required.\n\n* Assist with preparation of required QA artifacts including, but not limited to, master test strategy and plan, functional test plan, QA acceptance plan/sign off, defect tracking report.\n\n* Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.\n\n* Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and project retrospectives.\n\n* Contribute to innovation and cultivate a positive and supportive team.\n\n* Stay up to date with current best practices and emerging technologies.\n\n* Participate and contribute to company culture.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAbout You\n\n\n* 1-3 years of experience in a Quality Assurance role\n\n* Experience with web/mobile application testing (browser compatibility, responsive testing, etc.)\n\n* Experienced in web/mobile application technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript etc.\n\n* Experience testing in Window OS, Mac OS, Mobile OS (Android, iOS), etc.\n\n* Good understanding of the quality assurance discipline, the defect lifecycle management processes, and the software commonly used for test planning and defect tracking (ideally Jira or another tool like Bugzilla, etc.)\n\n* Understanding of cloud computing architecture, services and platforms\n\n* Good knowledge of structured test methods and processes, and writing test cases and test scenarios\n\n* Experience in developing test plans, writing test scripts, developing use cases, governing quality standards, vetting and guiding requirements/acceptance criteria, and assisting business users through user acceptance test processes.\n\n* Experience and knowledge of software quality tools (ie. test case management, project planning, defect management)\n\n* Experience with testing APIs using tools such as Postman\n\n* Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle Methodology\n\n* Familiarity with concepts related to design principles, content, navigation, usability, behavioural analytics tagging, accessibility, SEO, localization/ multi-lingual and personalization considerations\n\n* Familiarity with DevOps principles, processes and tools (e.g. IaC, CI/CD and orchestration)\n\n* Experience with Test Automation (Nice to have)\n\n* Experienced in working in Agile environment (is ideal)\n\n* Sense of urgency and ability to work under tight timelines.\n\n* Ability to communicate ideas both technically and non-technically.\n\n* Clear, concise and articulate. Good written and oral communication skills with the ability to present to various levels of stakeholder.\n\n* Results oriented, critical thinker, good analytical and problem-solving skills\n\n* Good organizational and time-management skills\n\n* Highly collaborative and dynamic\n\n* A bachelor's degree in Engineering, computer science, information systems or a related field.\n\n* Ability to take ownership of tasks and projects assigned with minimal supervision\n\n* Proactive in raising potential risks/concerns\n\n\n\n\nWhy You’ll Love This Opportunity\n\nUltimately, if you are looking for a challenging role that will expand your skills and expose you to leading edge web technologies, this is the position for you. This is an amazing opportunity that allows you to have a fulfilling career in QA for the long term. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, DevOps, JavaScript, Cloud, API and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, Ontario, Canada

\nBlueOcean is a different kind of SaaS company. We are a team of problem solvers fueled by challenging convention, and we are looking for doers, leaders, and dreamers to join us. We are venture-backed by arguably the best SaaS VC in the world Insight Partners, and we are looking to hire those who want to join us as we build this ship.  \n\n\nOur mission is to revolutionize how marketing decisions are made. We are a single pane of glass connecting data and insights to actions and outcomes. Our fundamental vision is to simply Unlock Human Creativity! \n\n\nYou are a critical thinker who is self-motivated and intellectually curious. You are adventurous and have a need to figure out how things work. Highly focused and determined, you’re a standout colleague with strong leadership qualities. You are well-respected by your peers and driven by making an impact with code. You love working on cool projects with the latest technologies. Motivated by innovation, you like to be challenged to develop new technology solutions to answer complex problems, but also know when a tried and true solution is the right choice. You are fluent in a variety of programming languages and pick up new languages easily. If this description fits, then you are a BlueOcean Full Stack Engineer.\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n* Define system requirements and provide feedback on project limitations and capabilities.\n* Define performance reliability, flexibility, and scalability requirements.\n* Design real-time Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence application architectures and build creative solutions for our AI SaaS platform.\n* Analyze user requirements to determine the feasibility of design with time, cost, and resource constraints.\n* Collaborate and build solutions regarding architecture, backend APIs, and testing frameworks.\n* Write HTML+CSS to build responsive layouts from provided mockup files.\n* Write functional and automated tests for new and existing features.\n* Provide documentation for written code and assist in peer code reviews.\n* Assist in resolving operational issues for implemented features.\n* Provide support for successful feature rollout and deployment.\n\n\n\n\nOur stack that you’ll be working with:\n* JavaScript (React\Next.js and Node.js)\n* HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap\n* REST and GraphQL (Apollo)\n* Cloudflare, Amazon AWS infrastructure; Serverless, Lambda, and S3\n* SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL\n* Github\n\n\n\nA few must have: \n* Team player mentality\n* Strong communicator\n* Belief that company culture can drive positive outcomes\n* Willingness to bring your individuality to the table and collaborate in a cross-functional distributed environment.\n* Startup mentality\n\n\n\nBonus points for: \n* Advanced understanding of JavaScript and all of its intricacies\n* Experience with Python\n* AWS infrastructure automation, Serverless, CloudFront\n* Expert understanding of SQL and NoSQL (DynamoDB)\n* Experience with Grunt, Gulp, CircleCI, Cypress\n* Object Oriented Design experienceExperience with asynchronous request handling\n\n\n\n\nA few things to note:\n* this is a remote role with period meet ups with your team in Seattle and at least one annual offsite\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $178,000 a yearThe salary range for this role is from $160,000 to $178,000 for the greater Bay Area and Seattle but is dependent on the level, knowledge, skills, experience, and location. BlueOcean offers a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, short-term disability coverage, and 401k. Employees also receive the following: flexible paid time off, 12 paid holidays, company-wide recharge days, and remote working arrangements.\n\nAbout BlueOcean\nOur first product is focused on completely changing the way brand tracking and measurement are performed, a mission-critical business process that has yet to be augmented or informed by software! The total US TAM is $74 Billion dollars, so it's a huge opportunity and just the first stop on this journey. In order to approach this problem, we have built our always-on brand tracking platform (Brand Navigator), a product that instantly informs brands about what to do today and tomorrow without waiting for an army of consultants or analyst groups to catch up. We already have great customers like SAP, Microsoft, and Bloomingdale's.\n\n\nAt BlueOcean, we have seven values that guide our mission and how we work together\n● Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable.\n● We test, we learn, we release it\n● We embrace difference because diversity is our strength\n● We get comfortable with being uncomfortable because that’s how we grow\n● We achieve our goals when we build together\n● We celebrate wins and failures and hide nothing\n● We care about our customers, each other and our communities\n● We build trust when we do what we say\n\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer: \nBlueocean.ai provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. At BlueOcean, we value having a diverse team that can bring their own unique viewpoints and experiences to the table, including those who have taken nontraditional paths and the formerly incarcerated.\n\n\nMust be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.\n\n\nAll positions may be subject to a reference check and background check.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, GraphQL, Testing, JavaScript, NoSQL, Marketing, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n