Application Maintenance / QA

The Role

Initially perform maintenance and QA on a suite of evolving applications, eventually aiding in the migration to a platform better suited to our business goals.

Team Fit

You'll be part of a small team under the guidance of a senior developer, reporting directly to Business Unit Director. Your input is greatly valued, in this dynamic and tight knit team, and you'll be directly involved in enhancements and features. This role is not for the faint of heart, this is a junior level opportunity that leads to exciting challenges and cutting edge technology for the one willing to work for it.

Immediate & Long Term Goals / Tasks / Projects

     Immediate (Within 1st week):

  • Learn the essentials of VB6 and support the application whenever it breaks under the guidance of the senior programmer.

     Long Term (2-3 weeks and beyond):

  • Learn VB6 to intermediate expertise; take initiative to maintain it with suggestions from support and the Business Unit Director. Support senior programmer in the new direction of the application.

Technical Fit (in order of priority):

  • Jr. application development experience
  • Intermediate debugging / code-maintenance experience
  • Visual Studio

Nice to haves:

  • Experience with VB syntax (i.e. VB6, VBA, COM, VB.Net, etc.)
  • QA/Testing
  • General poker knowledge a strong asset. Familiarity with online poker is even better.
  • Bug tracking software (i.e. Mantis)
  • Version control software (i.e. Subversion)
  • OCR Knowledge

Applicable Experience

  • Software Application Maintenance
  • Real world examples of learning new programming languages fast
  • Examples of personal initiative and determination
  • Demonstrated passion for programming and application development

Skills and Education

    Recent grad of post Secondary Computing Science institution or demonstrated experience with OOD/OOP

Attitudes

A seeker of new challenges and growth; a hard worker willing to earn opportunities through demonstrated achievements

Rewards

DOM provides an excellent benefits package which takes effect immediately upon starting employment. The package includes life, health and dental insurance as well as a $120 monthly travel allowance and $800 annually for fitness-related fees.

Additionally, each employee is given three weeks paid vacation to start, increasing to four weeks after two years of full-time employment. There are flex-time opportunities as well.

Salary will be commensurate with experience and will be enhanced by performance-based incentives.