Senior Software Test Lead - Automation & Security (Firmware/CI)

Enersys; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 97,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Full benefits

Life Insurance

Long-term disability

RRSP matching

Job summary

EnerSys Energy Systems seeks a Software Test Manager to lead testing across firmware, embedded software, backend services, and applications. This role blends hands-on contribution with ownership of test strategy, framework development, and light team leadership.

This position requires 8+ years in software/firmware/embedded testing, strong automation experience, and a proven ability to raise test quality, security, and reliability across complex systems in a multi-market environment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in test automation, quality engineering, and test framework development.
• Experience testing embedded and/or firmware systems, backend and API-based platforms, and system-level/integration-heavy environments.
• Ability to debug across hardware, embedded software, networks, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of security testing principles (IEC 62443 familiarity is a plus).
• Proficiency in CI/CD integration and automation tooling.
• Proven ability to lead through technical excellence and hands-on contribution.
• Experience mentoring engineers or influencing cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills to articulate risk, quality and system behavior.
• 8+ years of experience in software/firmware/embedded testing or quality engineering.
• Prior role as Senior or Lead Test Engineer and a track record of advancing test automation systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across the full system stack including Unit, integration, system, and end-to-end tests.
• Contribute to test code, automation frameworks, and shared libraries.
• Troubleshoot complex system interactions across device embedded software and backend applications.
• Demonstrate engineering rigor and set standards for testing quality through personal contributions.
• Own and evolve a multi-layered test strategy aligned with system architecture, risks and security requirements.
• Define automation scope and manual testing boundaries; ensure tests are meaningful and maintainable.
• Partner with DevOps to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test environment reliability.

Skills

Test automation

Quality engineering

Test framework development

Embedded/firmware testing

Backend/API testing

System-level/integration testing

Debug across hardware/networks/distrib

Security testing principles

CI/CD automation tooling

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk/quality communication

Senior/Lead Test Engineer experience

Test automation systems development

Job description

EnerSys Energy Systems seeks a Software Test Manager to lead testing across firmware, embedded software, backend services, and applications. This role blends hands-on contribution with ownership of test strategy, framework development, and light team leadership.

This position requires 8+ years in software/firmware/embedded testing, strong automation experience, and a proven ability to raise test quality, security, and reliability across complex systems in a multi-market environment.