QA Analyst/ QA Specialist
DanceBUG
Full-time
On-site
King City, Ontario, Canada
$8,500,095,000 - $8,500,095,000 USD yearly
📸 QA Analyst / QA Specialist (Media, Data & Multi-Platform)
Salary: $85,000 – $95,000 CAD
Location: Toronto, ON
Work Model: Hybrid / Remote (Canada-based)
✨ The Opportunity
We’re a growing media and technology company looking for a highly detail-oriented QA Analyst/Specialist to take clear ownership of quality across our entire software ecosystem.
This role is for someone who is comfortable going through software with a fine-tooth comb, identifying issues others miss, and clearly calling out what needs to change so it can be fixed properly.
You’ll be testing a complex, real-world platform that includes:
🎯 Key Responsibilities
Cross-Platform Functional Testing
Photo & Video Quality Assurance
$85,000 – $95,000 CAD, based on experience and domain expertise
If this sounds like a fit, we’d like to hear from you. Apply with your resume and a brief note outlining your QA experience.
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Salary: $85,000 – $95,000 CAD
Location: Toronto, ON
Work Model: Hybrid / Remote (Canada-based)
✨ The Opportunity
We’re a growing media and technology company looking for a highly detail-oriented QA Analyst/Specialist to take clear ownership of quality across our entire software ecosystem.
This role is for someone who is comfortable going through software with a fine-tooth comb, identifying issues others miss, and clearly calling out what needs to change so it can be fixed properly.
You’ll be testing a complex, real-world platform that includes:
- A Windows desktop application
- A web portal
- A mobile app
- Photo & video capture, processing, and delivery
- Scheduling, registration, and data tabulation systems
- Emerging AI-driven features
🎯 Key Responsibilities
Cross-Platform Functional Testing
- Execute deep functional, integration, and regression testing across:
- Windows desktop application (Windows OS only)
- Web application (cross-browser testing)
- Mobile application
- Validate data flow, system interactions, and failure points across platforms
Photo & Video Quality Assurance
- Test media capture, file handling, exports, uploads, and playback
- Proactively surface issues related to:
- File corruption
- Large or inconsistent file sizes
- Low-resolution or degraded media
- Failed, partial, or delayed uploads
- Rigorously test scheduling, registration, and tabulation logic
- Validate calculations, totals, rankings, and record integrity
- Identify discrepancies and clearly flag actionable fixes for developers
- Design and maintain clear, structured test plans, test cases, and scripts
- Translate product requirements and real-world usage into practical test scenarios
- Continuously improve test coverage based on observed issues
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects using tools like Jira and Azure.
- Ensure issues are:
- Clearly reproducible
- Properly scoped
- Actionable for development
- Speak up when fixes are incomplete or introduce regressions
- Assist in organizing, prioritizing, and tracking software development tasks related to QA findings
- Help break down larger issues into clear, actionable development tasks
- Support sprint planning and backlog grooming from a quality and risk perspective
- Monitor task progress to ensure fixes are completed correctly and on schedule
- Flag stalled, unclear, or under-scoped work that may impact quality or timelines
- Test software under real-world conditions, including unreliable networks, large data volumes, and time-sensitive workflows
- Identify failure modes that occur in live production environments, not just ideal test cases
- Validate recovery behavior after crashes, power loss, network drops, or partial data writes
- Evaluate usability and error messaging for non-technical operators working under time pressure
- Work closely with the CTO, Project Manager, and Developers
- Communicate findings clearly, directly, and respectfully
- Advocate for software quality and integrity
- 3+ years of professional QA or software testing experience
- Mandatory experience with at least one of:
- Photo or video processing software
- Media file handling systems
- Data-heavy or tabulation-driven applications
- Proven experience testing Windows desktop, web, and mobile applications
- Strong attention to detail and structured thinking
- Comfortable raising concerns, asking for changes, and defending quality decisions
- Experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress)
- Database testing experience using SQL
- QA certifications (e.g., ISTQB)
$85,000 – $95,000 CAD, based on experience and domain expertise
If this sounds like a fit, we’d like to hear from you. Apply with your resume and a brief note outlining your QA experience.
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