Senior Product Verification Specialist (12 Month Contract) (Job Req #2024-140)

Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will collaborate with the Ross Graphics development teams to enable and deliver product testing strategies. Expertise will be gained through direct testing of both hardware and software products, working closely with technical personnel, and developing automation environments. The candidate will be a champion of product quality, working with the development team to improve test coverage and test efficiency through automation. The candidate will report directly to the Product Verification Manager. This position is located at our Ottawa Research & Development facility.

What we offer:

Ross offers competitive salaries and comprehensive health plans, as well as several perks to help you perform at your best.

Some of these perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, employee share ownership program, development support and a ton of fun social activities and events!

Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video family, and we’ve got a pretty energizing environment here

What the job is all about:

• Develop manual and automated test plans and test strategies
• Participate in the management, maintenance, and expansion of the lab environment, including investigating third party software/hardware integration (racking servers, cabling, installing and configuring graphics cards etc.)
• Manage test plans and test cases in the test management database
• Modify existing test plans and testing information to correct errors, adapt to new use case scenarios or upgraded interfaces, and cover performance enhancements
• Assist in investigation and reproduction of product and customer issues
• Provide regular status updates on manual and automated testcase execution to management and associated development teams
• Provide effort estimation for scheduling purposes to management
• Collaborate with other technical and non-technical teams as needed
• Office Environment and in some cases, work occurs in the lab area
• Occasional lifting, bending, stooping required in maintaining lab area and equipment
• Perform other related duties as required

Who you are:

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a development role and/or test case automation role
• Solid experience with testing data networks
• Great level of experience with HTTP and RESTful web service automation tools (Robot Framework, SoapUI, JMeter, Postman, Jenkins, etc.)
• Great level of experience with integrated testing of multi-server configurations
• Exceptional experience programming (C, C++, JAVA/JSCRIPT, Python, Visual Basic, scripting, etc.)
• Experience [BC3] [MR4] with development or testing using Unreal or other 3D graphics engines
• Experience with testing AWS web services and/or cloud-based architectures
• Experience with bug tracking and test cycle management tools (Jira, Bugzilla, etc.)
• Experience with development management tools such as source control and code review (FishEye, Crucible, Confluence, SVN, etc)
• Knowledge of computer networking (TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.)
• Knowledge of databases & SQL. (PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, etc.)
• Knowledge of operating systems (Linux and various Windows platforms)
• Knowledge of Geospatial data would be considered an asset
• Knowledge of broadcast and television production would be considered an asset

• A solid attention for detail and a critical mindset
• Excellent interpersonal and observational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Solid analytical and trouble shooting skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Self-starter, quick learner and able to work with minimum supervision
• Passionate about learning and the Product Verification Role
• Able to work independently or as part of a team

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross! We believe everyone should be able to enjoy a rewarding career at Ross, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability. If a disability means that you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.