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Willowglen Systems

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Edmonton, AB · On-site

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Willowglen Systems

Edmonton, AB • On-site

Full-time

Posted 18 days ago

Job description

Location: Edmonton
Our Company
Willowglen Systems is a leading industrial automation company that provides innovative solutions for various industries, including oil and gas, rail, and energy. We are committed to innovation and continuous improvement, and we are looking for a Software Developer in Test to join our team and drive our projects to success.
Position Summary:
In this role, you'll collaborate closely with Software Engineering, Product, and Project teams to gain a deep understanding of customer workflows, performance goals, system constraints, and UI/UX needs. Your expertise will be crucial in translating these insights into robust test strategies and automation, ensuring the software we deliver is reliable, high-performing, and meets the highest quality standards.
If you're passionate about testing and automation and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
Testability, Design Collaboration & Quality Engineering:
  • Analyze features during the solutioning and design phases, providing guidance to ensure implementations are testable, automatable, and aligned with long term quality objectives.
  • Collaborate with developers, architects, QA analysts, and cross functional teams to embed testability into the SDLC and influence design decisions early.
  • Serve as a QA technical expert to determine the appropriate testing strategy (Integration, Functional, Feature, End to End, Smoke, etc.) based on feature complexity and risk.
Test Planning, Execution & Coverage:
  • Develop, maintain, and execute high quality test plans with a focus on long term maintainability, scalability, and regression support.
  • Perform Unit, Integration, System, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure comprehensive coverage across the product lifecycle.
Automation Development & Framework Ownership:
  • Design, build, and enhance robust and extensible automation frameworks that support long-term scalability and maintainability and aligned with enterprise SCADA product needs.
  • Write high quality automation code following best practices, collaborating with senior, intermediate, and junior engineers to model strong engineering discipline.
  • Conduct code reviews, pair programming, and technical demos to ensure automation quality, consistency, and adherence to standards.
Integration, Reporting & Tooling:
  • Develop and maintain reporting pipelines and dashboards that track execution results, test coverage, defect trends, and release readiness.
  • Manage test metrics and reporting techniques using Jira Xray and related tools to ensure full traceability between requirements, test cases, automated tests, and defects.
  • Ability to use REST APIs to integrate and synchronize automated test results with Jira and Xray.
SCADA Product Testing & Feature Validation:
  • Create, enhance, document, and execute automated and manual tests for SentientQ product features as part of the next generation enterprise SCADA platform.
  • Participate in QA test design reviews to ensure test coverage, scenarios, and automation strategy fully align with agreed upon software design and functional requirements.
  • Partner with customer facing groups (Customer Success, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Solutions Architects) to understand real world usage patterns and ensure product quality aligns with customer needs.
Cross Functional Collaboration & Agile Delivery:
  • Work closely with QA teammates to ensure completeness, quality, and performance of implemented functionality.
  • Collaborate within a highly interactive Agile team, contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.
  • Communicate effectively and respectfully, sharing ideas, raising risks, and contributing to a positive team culture.
Culture, Mentorship & Continuous Improvement:
  • Contribute to team and organizational growth by participating in mentorship, technical interviews, onboarding, and new initiatives.
  • Champion quality engineering practices and help elevate the team’s technical maturity and testing discipline.
Qualifications and Experience
  • BSc (minimum) in Engineering, Computer Science, or comparable area of studies – or equivalent.
  • 4 Years of experience in an SDET role.
  • 4 years of experience with these technologies and languages:
    • Python, Robot Framework, JavaScript, Git/ Gitlab, JUnit
    • Selenium, Jira
    • Microservices architecture
  • Leverage full‑stack development expertise to architect and implement a robust and extensible automation framework that supports long‑term scalability and maintainability.
  • Experience in systems integration using Application Programming Interface (API) testing.
  • You are experienced or familiar with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
  • Hands on experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable execution, fast feedback, and seamless integration with build and deployment workflows.
  • A strong commitment to continuous learning and knowledge‑sharing, contributing to a culture of technical growth and collaborative improvement across the team.
Nice to have
  • C++ 11(ideally 14) and higher
  • Groovy, Gherkins, Golang
  • Cucumber, Spock, Geb, Pytest
  • Kubernetes, Docker/ Ansible/ Terraform
  • PostgreSQL
  • VMware
  • Jira Xray
  • Industry experience with SCADA systems Metrorail, Pipelines, and Energy infrastructure.
  • Microservices product on-premises infrastructure deployment.
  • Experience in Performance testing.
  • Experience in Migration testing.

Are you up for the challenge? Join Our Team
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Our Mission
Willowglen’s mission is to be a global leader in delivering visionary, customer-driven industrial automation solutions.
Our Values
Respectful - We take the time to listen and understand each other, and this fosters feelings of mutual trust, safety, camaraderie, and well-being.
Agile - We are a customer-centric, responsive, and collaborative organization. We are quick to learn, adapt and respond to changing circumstances.
Innovative - We value and support innovation thereby allowing people to be innovative. We are always striving to deliver superior solutions.
Willowglen Systems Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills, and experiences within our workforce. We thank all the applicants for their interest in this position; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted by our recruitment team. If you require accommodation, please reach out to our hiring team and we will work with you to find reasonable solutions
 

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