3 months ago
Ottawa, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and libraries for API, UI, security, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Develop production-quality test harnesses, mocks, performance tools, and simulators for IoT devices and video streams at scale.
- Build testability tooling for distributed event-driven components including Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and Kinesis.
- Integrate and optimize automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in architecture discussions, RFCs, design sessions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
- Create test strategies and plans for IoT workflows, video features, distributed cloud systems, performance, and resilience.
- Support monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and device-connectivity investigations.
- Mentor engineers and QA team members and act as a technical advocate for quality across the engineering organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software testing experience with strong hands-on coding ability.
- Strong Python programming skills and working proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Rust.
- Experience designing and building test automation frameworks from the ground up across API, UI, or integration layers.
- Comfort working in Linux environments.
- Understanding of AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and Kinesis in distributed serverless SaaS applications.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and treating test infrastructure as an engineering deliverable.
- Ability to read production code, contribute to code reviews, and collaborate technically with developers.
- Strong systems-thinking skills for distributed, event-driven, and resilience-focused architectures.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to provide technically substantiated feedback.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical/engineering experience.
- Experience with CDK, Terraform, or Serverless Framework is preferred.
- Experience with IoT communication protocols, device simulators, video development or streaming technologies, monitoring and observability tools, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, open-source testing tools, or fast-growing SaaS environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time position with a hybrid work arrangement in Ottawa.
- Meaningful equity for full-time permanent employees.
- Fully paid health and dental benefits with no waiting period plus a $500 health spending account.
- Monthly reimbursement for fitness, wellness, or mental health programs.
- Mandatory onboarding in Ottawa during the first week, at least one in-person interview, and periodic quarterly in-person visits for non-Ottawa employees.
- Candidates must be Canadian citizens or eligible to work in Canada and must complete a criminal records check upon hire.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAWSDatadogElasticsearchGrafanaJavaScriptLinuxNode.jsPythonReactRustSnowflakeTerraformTypeScript
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About Solink
Solink builds a subscription-based video intelligence platform that links security camera footage with POS and other operational data for retailers, restaurants, and multi-site businesses. Customers use it for loss and fraud prevention, incident investigation, and performance insights across locations, with searchable video tied to transactions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Ottawa, this privately held company is used by brands including McDonald’s and JYSK.