Overview

Descartes Unites the People and Technology that Move the World

The need for efficient, secure, and agile supply chains and logistics operations has become ever more critical and complex. By combining innovative technology, powerful trade intelligence and the reach of our network, Descartes helps get goods, information, transportation assets, and people where they’re needed, when they’re needed.

We’re one of the most broadly deployed logistics and supply chain technology companies in the world. More than 26,000 customers around the globe use our cloud-based solutions to transform the way they move inventory and information to enhance productivity, better serve customers, thrive competitively, keep pace with evolving regulations, and respond to rapidly changing market conditions. Descartes is publicly traded (Nasdaq:DSGX, TSX:DSG) with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, we lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on our scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what’s most important to them. Learn more at www.descartes.com.

We’re growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team.

Position Summary

Join our growing team, which designs and delivers innovative web and mobile eCommerce solutions for customers worldwide. This is an opportunity to apply your software testing expertise, contribute to the quality of our applications, and expand your skills in an international, collaborative environment.

About Descartes

Descartes Systems Group is the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce. Our offices in Poland and Slovenia are two of several Descartes R&D centres worldwide. We are working on Descartes Peoplevox, an e-commerce warehouse management system for direct-to-consumer retailers. With a team of 15 people, we are small enough to stay agile, creative, and team-focused while benefiting from the stability and resources of a successful global company.

What You’ll Do

As part of our agile SCRUM team, you will:

• Test our web and mobile business applications.
• Design, document, and execute test cases.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and colleagues across international Descartes locations.
• Apply agile testing principles to improve product quality and delivery speed.
• Contribute to building new products and enhancing existing ones.

What Will You Bring

We are looking for someone who demonstrates curiosity, responsibility, and a strong work ethic. You should also have:

• Experience in testing business applications.
• Skills in creating test cases and managing testing processes.
• Basic experience uses SQL to query relational databases for data from multiple tables at a time and to change data in relational tables.
• Familiarity with test automation tools (a plus) (preferably Cypress, Soap UI, Postman, JMeter, Appium).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Knowledge of web services topics such as HTTP, REST, and JSON.
• Test and verify defects that have been hot fixed in production environments.
• Comfortable working with various technologies, including CI/CD/CT pipelines.
• Experience with performance and security testing is nice to have.

Job Responsibilities

• Achieving the set goals.
• The ability to plan daily basis work.
• Active participation in the daily meetings.
• Taking the initiative to improve the work of the QA team.

What We Offer

At Descartes, we believe in collaboration, education, and sharing knowledge. A mentor will support you and quickly become an integral part of our team.

We also offer

• Flexible working schedules.
• Business casual work environment.
• Tax-deductible cost for developers and testers.
• Work-from-home allowance.
• 1 additional annual leave day.
• Annual bonus.
• Work anniversary awards.
• Reimbursement of glasses and contact lenses.
• Group insurance covered by employee.
• Medical service covered by employer.
• Christmas party and Christmas vouchers for all employees.
• An agile development environment built on Scrum and modern engineering practices.

Join Us

As we scale, we’re looking for new doers, collaborators and innovators to join Descartes in uniting the people and technology that move the world as the Global Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Technology. We’re entrepreneurial, hardworking, geeky-in-a-good way problem solvers. Guided by our values, we nurture a TEAM focused culture that invests in people and creates opportunities for advancement across a broad spectrum of career paths. We prioritize work-life balance and foster an environment with the space to take ownership, to be heard, and to carve a path for your individual accomplishments to help drive our success. At Descartes, everyone has a voice and the best idea wins, regardless of who makes it. We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, remote and flexible work hours, and the opportunity to join a company on an awesome mission with a great existing team and trajectory.

Descartes also has a deep sense of environmental responsibility. Learn more about how we helped our customers save over 552,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2020 by reducing fuel and paper consumption: to avoid exposing an external URL in this format, please refer to the company website for sustainability information. Join a team that’s committed to working with customers to conserve resources and enhance sustainability.

If you feel you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, and Descartes sounds like the team and the mission you want to be part of, apply now. We can’t promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience.

Through COVID-19, we implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview and onboard candidates by video using Microsoft TEAMS. We record interviews and use them strictly for quality assurance, training and general record keeping purposes. Should you have any questions about this process, please connect with our hiring team in advance of scheduled interviews. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

We are an Equal Employment employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please review our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.