Specialist, Quality Assurance

IMAX is not your everyday entertainment experience. With over 50 years of history as a global innovator in entertainment technology, our employees and their careers have constantly gone beyond the ordinary at IMAX. We combine proprietary technology with industry-leading knowledge and relationships with top studios and filmmakers to create theatrical experiences that take audiences beyond the edge of their seats to a world they never imagined. IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies and continues to push the boundaries of entertainment experiences beyond blockbusters and into exciting new directions. 

Come explore IMAX – where innovation, creativity and passion come together. Get inspired, get involved, and ignite your future with IMAX!

Job Description:

IMAX is looking for a Quality Assurance Specialist to join our growing Software Technology team. Reporting into the Manager of Quality Assurance, you’ll focus on verification and validation of IMAX’s best-in-class Media Processing Platform and digital products on cloud. You’ll develop a deep understanding of the technologies, development, and testing of our digital products currently hosted on AWS, including the individual sub-components.  Our ideal candidate has a thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and key deliverables, bringing their strong background and experience in the engineering and quality assurance space to the table. 

What you’ll be doing

• Work with the cross-functional teams to enhance new and existing test plan strategies, testing cases/scripts to meet and improve test coverage needs 

• Define, refine and adhere to organizational standards and testing best practices when selecting processes and tools to be leveraged throughout the various test mandates, including deliverables throughout the project lifecycle 

• Maintain the test system configurations to ensure accurate and complete test coverage and test results 

• Perform cloud, software integration, and complete system testing 

• Create and execute test cases and scripts to be leveraged in the maximizing of automation, reporting the progress, coverage and target completion dates 

• Raise quality issues with preliminary root cause analysis, providing supporting engineering investigative logs to assist with the cross functional team resolution issue 

• Create, update, review and release software upgrade instructions, test reports and other technical documentation 

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years’ experience in a software engineering and cloud testing role. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, a similar field, or equivalent experience 

• Experience in AWS, Azure or other cloud platforms. 

• Experience in CMS technologies such as Drupal and ContentFul. 

• Experience with testing high-scale Kubernetes/container implementations. 

• Hands on experience in test case design at different levels (Component, Integration, End to End and User/Operational scenarios) 

• Hands on experience with test case and defect management tools (e.g. HP ALM, HPQC, Jira)

• Hands on experience with a variety of test automation tools, frameworks and environments (e.g. Robot Framework, Test Complete, SOAPUI, Playwright) 

• Hands on programming/developing experience using scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python, Java and C) and source configuration tools (Git) 

• Experience working with software project delivery methodologies, frameworks and best practices (Agile and Iterative Waterfall) and an understanding of development operations and integration in testing.

At IMAX, you will be part of a culture built on respect – we are committed to creating a welcoming and diverse atmosphere across our organization.
For consideration, please apply online. We thank all applicants for their interest in IMAX but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.