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Staffinity is currently seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for a premier client located in Mississauga. This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive salary, benefits, and equity options. The base salary range is 100-120k+ DOE.
Our client is an innovative software provider developing cloud-native platform solutions and advanced API infrastructure for the modern telecommunications and enterprise networking ecosystem. This role is ideal for a developer-minded automation engineer who thrives in complex distributed systems and is passionate about programmatic testing, reliability, and continuous integration.
Ideal Candidate Profile: This is not a traditional manual or hardware-focused QA role. We are looking for an outside-the-box, hands-on technical automation builder who can write clean code to build test frameworks, validate deep backend distributed systems, and implement robust quality gates across modern cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Automation Framework Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable, programmatic automated test frameworks to convert manual test cases into reliable regression suites.
- API & Integration Testing: Build and maintain automated API test suites to validate functional correctness, contract compliance, error handling, backward compatibility, and OAuth2/JWT security mechanics.
- Platform & Kubernetes Validation: Automate validation of microservices deployments across cloud-native (AWS EKS) and on-prem Kubernetes environments, verifying system behavior during upgrades, failovers, and service interactions.
- Performance & Load Strategy: Develop and execute performance and load testing strategies to measure and analyze system latency, throughput baselines, and distributed scalability.
- Security & Infrastructure Quality: Integrate automated security checks into the continuous test workflows, performing basic application security validation and vulnerability detection.
- SDLC & CI/CD Integration: Advocate for shift-left testing practices by embedding automated quality gates directly into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins) to vastly accelerate feedback loops.
- Environment & Data Management: Design and manage deterministic, repeatable test data and environments to support robust release validation and deployment readiness.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience: 5-7+ years of rigorous quality engineering experience, with a proven track record heavily focused on programmatic QA automation and distributed systems.
- Strong Programming Skills: Expert-level capability in writing automation tools from scratch using Java, Python, or Golang, with the ability to easily understand and analyze systems built on Java (Spring Boot) and C++.
- Cloud-Native & Backend Expertise: Deep practical familiarity testing containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and relational databases like PostgreSQL.
- Automation Stack & Tools: Proven experience with backend API testing, OpenAPI/Swagger, and a strong familiarity with modern automation testing tools, load testing tools (e.g., K6), Postman, or Git/Bitbucket.
- AI-Assisted Engineering: Hands-on experience leveraging AI-driven tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to scale up development efficiency and test coverage.
- Domain Context (Nice to Have): Familiarity with telecom, 4G/5G networking concepts, or network application integration tools is an asset, but platform automation mastery takes priority.
Pay: $100,000.00-$120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Experience:
- QA Automation: 4 years (required)
- Java, Python, or Golang development: 5 years (required)
- Building backend API automation frameworks: 4 years (required)
- Docker and Kubernetes deployments: 2 years (required)
- CI/CD pipeline test integration: 2 years (required)
Work Location: In person
