Key Responsibilities

- Analyze product requirements and define acceptance criteria.

- Develop comprehensive verification and validation strategies for software, hardware, cloud services, and integrated systems.

- Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated test frameworks and reusable test suites.

- Create functional, integration, system, regression, performance, reliability, scalability, and security test plans.

- Verify compliance with cybersecurity, quality, and non-functional requirements.

- Design and maintain test benches, simulation environments, virtualized environments, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) validation systems.

- Analyze software defects, perform root cause investigations, and collaborate with development teams on corrective actions.

- Produce validation reports, quality metrics, and release recommendations.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.

- 8–10+ years of professional experience in software verification, validation, or quality assurance.

- Minimum 5 years in a senior software testing, validation, or quality engineering role.

- Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.

- Experience developing automated test frameworks using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Bash, or similar languages.

- Experience with REST APIs, API testing, and service-oriented architectures.





- Experience developing reusable automated validation frameworks.

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.

- Experience working with Linux and Windows environments.

- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for distributed software systems.

- Experience validating cloud-connected applications and microservices.

- Knowledge of secure software development practices and cybersecurity testing.

- Experience with functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and reliability testing.

- Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking and communication protocols.

- Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

- Bilingual (English/French) is considered an asset.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience testing IoT, cloud-native, or connected device solutions.

- Experience with building automation, HVAC controls, or energy management systems.

- Familiarity with industry protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, KNX, Zigbee, or MQTT.

- Knowledge of cybersecurity testing, secure development lifecycle practices, and penetration testing concepts.

- Experience with Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, Bamboo, or similar development and test management tools.

- Experience using laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, multimeters, and network analyzers.

- Knowledge of Six Sigma or structured quality improvement methodologies.

- ISTQB or equivalent software testing certification is an asset.

📌 Senior Test Specialist (Montreal)
🏢 Artech
📍 Montreal