In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting Dash Hudson’s search for a Sales Development Representative and Swept’s opening for a Quality Engineer.
Dash Hudson, a Halifax-based company who created a “visual intelligence platform” that helps companies better market through photos and video, is looking to hire a Sales Development Representative.
The company, which already has employees in Halifax, Miami and New York, is looking for someone who is “super organized, to the point of compulsion” to manage their outreach strategy and help build and maintain sales.
Swept, also based in Halifax, creates software designed for the janitorial industry with mobile and web based platforms to better connect with their customers. Its mission is to help cleaning companies actually support their cleaners, not just check in with them.
Swept is looking to add a Quality Engineer to their team to implement and refine their Quality Assurance Program.
The Jobs of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.
Here are excerpts from the job postings:
Halifax
Dash Hudson
Sales Development Representative
Description
As a Sales Development Representative, you are a critical piece to the growth and development of Dash Hudson's sales process. You will manage a creative and customized outreach strategy to potential customers in verticals such as fashion, beauty, luxury, travel food, publishing, consumer electronics, and many more. Through developing and maintaining the early stages of the sales pipeline, you will contribute to the overall success of the sales team!
Responsibilities
• Find and source new leads for companies to go through the outreach process.
• Assign leads to specific Account Executives.
• Manage the early stages of the sales pipeline by communicating with potential customers through the outreach process.
• Customize messages to leads, and maintain a consistent follow up schedule.
• Collaborate with Account Executives to support their communications with warm leads, providing them with sales collateral.
• Track the performance of daily outreach: emails sent, opened, clicked, and responded to.
• Follow leads through the outreach process, and closing gaps where any lapses may occur.
• Funnel unreached companies back into the outreach process. . . .
Swept
Description
Swept is looking for a talented Software Quality Engineer lead to join our team. Your role within the team will be to implement and refine our Quality Assurance Program with the expressed objective of ensuring the best possible performance for both our Mobile and Web software.
You have a passion for learning and developing new skills, while working closely with production and client teams throughout the product life cycle. You'll plan methodically, act proactively and scrutinize relentlessly to ensure our products meet exacting standards of usability, and functionality.
You'll work on defining Acceptance Criteria and refining the business rules that are used in the application. You'll collaborate with development and design teams to plan and execute testing across a variety of world-class applications on the newest web and mobile technologies. You'll also have the unique opportunity to shape the tools, processes and culture of Quality Assurance at our company.
Responsibilities
• An aptitude for software testing and a passion for shipping quality products
• Experience testing scalable cloud applications and/or enterprise-grade web applications across modern web and mobile technologies
• Familiarity with scrum, agile and lean product development methodologies (BDD)
• Exceptional exploratory testing skills to help define Acceptance Criteria
• Expertise with UI automation frameworks (Selenium) on web and mobile platforms
• Experience developing test strategies and plans that match our release calendar
• Experience with Security and Load testing
• Expertise with troubleshooting and debugging problems
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills
• A passion for ongoing education, with a desire to learn new skills and approaches to software testing
• Attention to details; please include your favourite beverage in your cover letter
• A keen interest in emerging design and technology trends
• A desire to shape a cross-discipline product testing practice that is driven by growth, collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to product quality . . .
