Kongsberg Maritime | Maritime Simulation
1 Position
Shape quality from the beginning of a new product team
Kongsberg Maritime is expanding its Maritime Simulation organization, MSIM, with a new product team in Halifax.

We are looking for a Senior Software Quality Engineer to take a leading role in establishing how the team approaches quality, testing, and release confidence. You will work alongside senior full stack engineers and a product owner to deliver applications and services built on top of our maritime simulation platform.

The team will create user-facing capabilities, application logic, integrations, and workflows using platform services, REST APIs, and internal tools. Your role will cover both exploratory and automated testing, with particular attention to application behavior, API integrations, end-to-end workflows, and the risks created by distributed system boundaries.

This is not a role where quality is checked only at the end of development. You will help the team define acceptance criteria, identify risks early, design effective test strategies, and build quality into its everyday engineering practices.

What you will do

Define and continuously improve the quality strategy for the Halifax product team

Work with the product owner and developers to make requirements clear, testable, and measurable

Identify product, integration, performance, and regression risks early in the development process

Design, implement, and maintain automated tests for web applications, backend services, and REST APIs

Create appropriate test coverage across unit, component, integration, contract, end-to-end, and exploratory testing

Verify application logic and workflows built on top of the maritime simulation platform

Test integrations between team-owned software, platform services, and internal tools

Perform risk-based exploratory testing of new and changed functionality

Incorporate automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines

Support effective defect investigation, reproduction, prioritization, and root cause analysis

Help the team assess release readiness using clear evidence and agreed quality criteria

Define useful quality indicators and communicate risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders





Collaborate with QA and engineering colleagues in Norway and Bulgaria

Contribute to test environments, test data, tooling, documentation, and observability

Advocate for usability, reliability, maintainability, and the overall customer experience

Help establish a strong quality culture in which the whole team shares responsibility for the product

What we are looking for

This position supports government defense-related projects and is subject to contractual security requirements. Applicants must be Canadian citizens and be eligible to obtain and maintain Government of Canada Reliability Status.

Five or more years of professional experience in software quality engineering, software testing, or test automation

Strong experience testing modern web applications, REST APIs, and backend services

Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated test solutions

Experience with API-testing tools and modern web automation frameworks

Good understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile product development

Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows

Ability to choose the right level and type of testing for a given risk

Experience creating test plans, test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and traceable test evidence

Strong exploratory testing, analytical, and troubleshooting skills

Ability to investigate failures across application and integration boundaries

Confidence working independently and establishing quality practices within a recent team

Experience collaborating effectively with developers and product management

Experience working in a distributed or international organization

Clear written and verbal communication skills in English

Ability to communicate quality risks constructively and support pragmatic delivery decisions

It would be an advantage if you have

Experience with Postman, REST Assured, or comparable API-testing tools

Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions,



or comparable platforms

Experience with API contract testing and service virtualization

Experience with performance, load, resilience, or reliability testing

Experience testing enterprise, industrial, training, or simulation products

Familiarity with observability, logging, metrics, and distributed-system troubleshooting

Experience with maritime, defense, gaming, logistics, or other domain-intensive systems

Experience setting up a quality approach for a new product or engineering team

Maritime or simulation experience is helpful, but it is not required. You will work with domain specialists and technical teams who can help you learn the platform and its operational context.

How we work
You will join a senior, cross-functional Halifax team that owns meaningful product outcomes. A product owner will provide product direction and priorities, while the team determines how best to design, build, test, and deliver the solution.

The wider MSIM organization will provide platform capabilities, APIs, tools, technical expertise, and domain support. Because many colleagues are based in Norway and Bulgaria, you will need to communicate effectively across locations, document decisions clearly, and make progress without relying on continuous real-time coordination.

As the team’s senior quality specialist, you will guide its quality approach. At the same time, quality will remain a shared responsibility across engineering and product management.

Establish the quality practices of a new Halifax product team

Influence architecture, testability, and delivery practices from the beginning

Work with advanced maritime simulation technology and complex end-to-end workflows

Combine hands-on testing with automation, strategy, and continuous improvement

Collaborate with specialists across software engineering, simulation, UX, and maritime operations

Help deliver reliable products that support professional training and safer maritime operations

Join an international technology organization while having strong ownership within a local team

Help us build quality into the products, processes, and culture of Kongsberg Maritime’s expanding Maritime Simulation organization.

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📌 Senior Software Quality Engineer Location: Kongsberg Maritime Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia
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