Drive automated software validation for Telesat’s distributed microservices using Python, Pytest, GitLab CI/CD, and rigorous failure analysis.
As a senior individual contributor, you will develop frameworks, test utilities, plugins, and quality gates supporting production-grade engineering. The position spans functional, integration, contract, system, regression, reliability, resilience, performance, and scalability automation. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, architects, and quality engineering stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities: Create functional and non-functional automation for service workflows
Extend Pytest plugins for reporting, retries, and parallel execution
Integrate tests, logs, artifacts, and quality gates into GitLab
Investigate timeouts, retries, duplicates, backpressure, and recovery




Improve diagnostics through logs, metrics, traces, and isolation
Requirements: Experience designing substantial automation frameworks beyond individual test cases
Strong Python architecture, concurrency, error handling, and logging skills
Experience with GitLab CI/CD, runners, artifacts, and merge requests
Understanding of distributed systems and event-driven microservices
Solid debugging, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
Bring senior software development and test automation expertise to Telesat’s Python, Pytest, CI/CD, and distributed-systems engineering.

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📌 Senior Test Automation Software Developer (Quebec City)
🏢 Telesat
📍 Quebec City