Responsibilities
Octave seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure the quality of our assistive AI software product, Smart Advisor. Smart Advisor aids the end user by detecting patterns and connections between events or incidents providing actionable insights while monitoring an emergency or during routine surveillance.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Prioritize, plan, and coordinate QA testing activities.
- Review requirements, specifications, and functional design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs.
- Apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet customer needs.
- Collaboration with internal teams (e.g., developers & product managers) to identify testing requirements.
- Review logs using debugging process results.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within a Windows 11 environment, leveraging Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) to support quality assurance workflows, including documentation, defect tracking, data analysis, and reporting.
- Familiarity with system navigation, file management, and integration of Office tools with QA platforms such as Azure DevOps is preferred
Education / Qualifications
Education
BS degree in Computer Science or a proven related technical discipline. Equivalent work experience may be accepted.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in manual software quality assurance testing is required.
- Solid understanding of QA methodologies.
- The ability to write clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
- Self-motivated, independent, and effective team contributor
- Ability to step up in a fast-paced environment and be accountable.
- Strong problem-solving, written, and verbal communications skills
- Familiarity with Agile Scrum methodology
- Willingness to learn new technologies and enhance skills
- Advanced English
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the Public Safety domain is desirable
- Basic knowledge of browser development tools
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps
- Familiar with Agile Scrum Methodology
- Experience with Playwright automated testing tools
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About Octave
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Octave has approximately 7,200 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Why work for Octave?
All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.
Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.
Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.