Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Magnet Forensics5 months ago
Toronto, Canada or Ottawa, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and build reusable test frameworks and libraries shared across teams.
- Design testing SDKs and tools that help engineers create tests more efficiently.
- Improve product testability, instrumentation, and observability.
- Review test automation code and apply software engineering principles to test architecture.
- Define and maintain the automation roadmap and serve as a subject matter expert in test strategy and tooling.
- Mentor SDETs and software engineers on quality engineering practices.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code for test environments.
- Validate deployments across multiple cloud environments and collaborate with development teams to improve product quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience in quality engineering with a strong focus on cloud automation.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, C#, or Java, along with object-oriented design, software architecture, and system design skills.
- Experience building production-quality automation frameworks, testing libraries, or developer tools from scratch.
- Hands-on experience designing APIs for test frameworks or validation tools and working with SDKs, system integration testing, and software architecture.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based testing environments.
- Experience or strong interest in AI-powered development workflows.
- Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience includes testing LLM-powered applications and agentic systems, infrastructure-as-code, distributed systems, cloud architecture, observability, monitoring, alerting, BDD, contract testing, AWS services, security testing, performance testing, regression strategies, and Docker containers.
Benefits
- Generous time-off policies, healthcare and retirement benefits, volunteer opportunities, recognition programs, and employee committees and resource groups.
- Hybrid-flexible work arrangement with occasional in-person attendance, typically weekly to monthly depending on team needs.
- Employment is contingent on satisfactory completion of a background check.
About Magnet Forensics
Magnet Forensics builds digital investigation software used to acquire, analyze, and manage evidence from computers, mobile devices, cloud services, and IoT sources for law enforcement, government, and enterprises. It sells licensed and subscription software with training and services, and serves 4,000+ customers in 100+ countries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Magnet Forensics is privately held under Thoma Bravo.