Senior Software Engineer- Test (12 month contract) Calgary, AB, Canada

Black Duck Software, Inc.; Calgary; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in test automation. This role involves developing innovative testing strategies, creating automated tests for a SaaS application, and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Java programming, automated testing, and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will enhance product quality and drive the success of cutting-edge software solutions. If you are passionate about test automation and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in automated testing for SaaS applications.
• Strong Java programming and shell scripting skills required.
• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and develop testing strategies to enhance product quality.
• Develop automated tests covering end-user scenarios for SaaS applications.
• Troubleshoot automated test and product issues effectively.

Skills

Automated Testing

Java Programming

SaaS Applications

Shell Scripting

Test and Bug Investigation

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL Databases

Linux System Administration

Tools

DataDog

JIRA

Jenkins

Git

Docker

JMeter

SoapUI

Job description

Senior Software Engineer- Test (12 month contract)

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

The Senior Software Engineer - Test (12 month contract) can work in a dynamic environment consisting of a cross functional team. You should be comfortable in daily communication across multiple levels of leadership, while also being able to work independently. As a member of this team, you will:

• Analyze and develop new testing strategies to improve product quality
• Introduce and integrate industry standard SaaS observability testing tools and processes
• Develop and maintain required automation infrastructure to support new product feature testing
• Develop automated tests that cover end-user use case scenarios for a SaaS application
• Analyze product feature requirements and write appropriate functional test plans
• Troubleshoot and investigate automated test and product issues

Skills and Qualifications

Must Have:

• 3+ years professional experience developing automated tests against a SaaS application hosted in GCP, AWS or Azure
• Experience implementing chaos, resiliency, SaaS infrastructure and region testing
• Implemented tools for monitoring service health, alerting, metrics using of production-level monitoring systems such as DataDog
• Strong Java programming skills as well as experience working with shell scripts.
• Experience developing interface boundary and functional tests for common protocols such as REST, gRPC and RabbitMQ
• Strong test and bug investigation, debugging and reporting skills
• Expertise developing tests in a Docker and Kubernetes environment as well the infrastructure to support them
• Experience with industry standard automation and development tools (JIRA, Jenkins, Git, Docker, JMeter, SoapUI, etc.)
• Common testing experience in: SQL Databases, SSO, OAUTH2, OpenID, or SAML and RBAC functionality
• Strong working network, security, Linux system administration, and troubleshooting skills

Nice to have:

• Understand backwards compatibility testing techniques
• Working understanding of ease-of-use, usability and UX testing
• Familiarity with security testing principles including penetration testing
• Experience integrating a contract testing framework in a distributed enterprise environment
• Python with Flask experience

Other Qualities:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Passionate about test automation and finding product bugs
• Detail oriented; you feel uneasy when you think you missed something
• You take ownership in your projects, with a focus on delivery
• You are comfortable in an emerging, fast-paced, high-growth company