Senior Quality Engineer - Maritime Simulation Platform

Kongsberg Maritime; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kongsberg Maritime in Halifax is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy for the Halifax product team, shaping testing, automation, and release confidence across web apps, APIs, and backend services.

You will collaborate with product owner and developers, work with international teams in Norway and Bulgaria, and embed quality into CI/CD and daily engineering practice, guiding testing coverage and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, software testing, or test automation.
• Strong experience testing modern web applications, REST APIs, and backend services.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test solutions.
• Experience with API-testing tools and modern web automation frameworks.
• Good understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile product development.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously improve the quality strategy for the Halifax product team.
• Work with the product owner and developers to make requirements clear, testable, and measurable.
• Identify product, integration, performance, and regression risks early in development.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests for web applications, backend services, and REST APIs.
• Create appropriate test coverage across unit, component, integration, contract, end-to-end, and exploratory testing.
• Verify application logic and workflows built on top of the maritime simulation platform.
• Test integrations between team-owned software, platform services, and internal tools.
• Perform risk-based exploratory testing of new and changed functionality.
• Incorporate automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support effective defect investigation, reproduction, prioritization, and root cause analysis.
• Help assess release readiness using clear evidence and agreed quality criteria.

Skills

Quality engineering

REST APIs testing

Automated testing

CI/CD

Exploratory testing

Test strategy

Team collaboration

Documentation

English communication

Independent working

Tools

Postman

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

REST Assured

Service virtualization

Job description

Kongsberg Maritime in Halifax is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy for the Halifax product team, shaping testing, automation, and release confidence across web apps, APIs, and backend services.

You will collaborate with product owner and developers, work with international teams in Norway and Bulgaria, and embed quality into CI/CD and daily engineering practice, guiding testing coverage and risk mitigation.