Software Quality Assurance and Automation Test Engineer

Location: Markham, Ontario, Canada

Position: Software Quality Assurance and Automation Test Engineer - Automotive Infotainment

CIeNET is a mobile, automotive, telecom and enterprise software services and solutions research, engineering and development company founded in the U.S. in the year 2000. We currently have over 2,400 employees worldwide, supporting customers in North America, Asia and Europe. We have over ten locations across US, Canada, Mainland China and Taiwan. CIeNET has been named Global Outsourcing 100 in sixteen consecutive years. CIeNET became an ALTEN Group company in 2021.

CIeNET has been expanding its footprint in Canada to better serve our industry leading customers in the automotive industry. We are engaged in the development of cutting-edge technologies and products that have brought automotive infotainment, mobile internet, telematics services, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) technologies to fruition over the years.

CIeNET Canada welcomes skilled, dedicated, innovative and motivated professionals to join our team in developing a promising career with us.

Role Summary

The software QA engineer will be an important member of our infotainment testing/verification team in Canada, which is part of the larger Global Engineering team working with our industry leading client. The QA engineer will be responsible for defining, implementing, executing, and maintaining test plans and test cases to ensure the software is delivered with high quality. The engineer will work closely with software developers/engineers, requirement developers/engineers and program managers through the entire product lifecycle. The QA engineer reviews requirement specifications and design documents, to better understand the features and specifications for the efficient design of test cases to address the full spectrum of the requirements and quality. The automation test Engineer should improve engineering productivity. In order to achieve this goal, automation test engineer are responsible for designing and implementing highly efficient automation test infrastructure, as well as tools and test scripts to test the specific products and solutions automatically.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in requirement reviews in order to write test procedures and test cases
• Define test strategies based on software development plans
• Define and maintain test plans based on software development schedule
• Setup, integrate and develop highly efficient and reliable test infrastructure
• Design and develop tools and scripts for product and solution automation test
• Investigate and evaluate new techniques and tools for continuous improvement
• Ensure test plans align with the development schedule and project milestones
• Prepare test reports on test results and problems and provide initial issue analysis
• Analyze reported issues to generate quality reports, and contribute to defect prevention
• Support development teams to verify and/or reproduce reported issues
• Participate in the continuous improvement of test processes and methodologies
• Setup and configure necessary hardware and operating environments for specialized and daily test cases
• Maintain of test equipment and the test library environment
• Participate in development of test tools and test scripts
• Interact with software developers and other QA engineers to ensure the deliverables fully address the needs

Required Skills and Experiences:

• Minimum three years of experience in software quality assurance
• Minimum two years of experience in testing Android code
• Minimum two years of experience in mobile or automotive industry
• Understanding and experience of different automation framework
• Experience in automation tools like Jenkins, Selenium, Appium and others is a plus
• Experience with Android automation test tools such as UiAutomator, Monkey&MonkeyRunner or Robotium
• Development or scripting skills in common language such as JAVA, Python, Perl, C++ or shell

• Ability to anticipate problems and issues, and then recommend solutions to the problems
• Experience in mobile application automation is highly preferred
• Solid knowledge of software quality assurance methodologies and tools
• Knowledge of testing embedded product software
• Test driven development experience is a plus
• Good experience with different Operating Systems, especially Linux variants
• Working knowledge of Scrum/Agile software development process
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• QA analyst / engineer needs to possess technical writing skills, effective communication skills, problem-solving and analytical skills, organizational skills, and interpersonal skills.
• QA analyst / engineer must be self-motivated, a quick-learner and reliably deliver on time in a fast-paced work environment

Education and Training:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Education and Certification:

• Higher degrees is preferred
• Professional Engineering designation is a plus

• Extended group insurance including prescription drugs, dental and vision cares
• RRSP employer match
• 15 days annual vacation

CIeNET offers equal opportunities to people. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon required. We would like to thank all applicants for expressing interest. However only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Reference check of certain positions will be conducted with your permission.