{"id":27462,"url":"https://alion.io/job/solink-senior-software-engineer-in-test-sdet","title":"Senior Software Engineer in Test (SDET)","company":{"id":7397,"name":"Solink","domain":"solink.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/solink","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":35,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Ottawa, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":115000,"max":147500,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":104856},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon Kinesis","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":true},{"name":"Datadog","optional":true},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-15T19:33:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T12:56:05Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":104,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":104},"description":"Senior Software Engineer in Test (SDET)\nLocation: Ottawa, ON | Hybrid\nDepartment: R&D- Infrastructure\nType: Permanent | Full-Time | Existing Vacancy\nAbout Solink\nAt Solink, our mission is to safeguard what matters most. We provide businesses with the tools to know sooner and act faster by transforming video security into real-time operational insights.\nOur cloud-based platform integrates seamlessly with your existing cameras and systems, turning them into intelligent sensors that detect and interpret key moments. This empowers teams to make data-driven decisions, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency.\nTrusted by over 30,000 locations across 32+ countries - including brands like McDonald’s and JYSK - Solink delivers clarity when it counts. Our solutions help businesses reduce shrink, optimize performance, and respond proactively to potential threats.\nWe're growing rapidly, earning industry recognition, and scaling with purpose. We’ve been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, Business Intelligence Group, and as one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work. And we’re just getting started!\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our Device Management team.\nThis is an engineering role first: you'll design and build test automation frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure that let the whole team ship confidently at speed. You'll write real code, against our Rust/Node.js APIs, our React front end, and our AWS serverless infrastructure, to make the system testable, simulate device behavior at scale, and catch problems before they reach customers. You'll work as a peer to developers, contributing to architecture discussions, code reviews, and design decisions, with quality and testability as your lens.\nYou'll have significant latitude to shape how the team approaches testing, from framework design to CI/CD integration to how we simulate thousands of IoT devices and video streams in a repeatable, automated way.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAutomation Framework & Tooling Development\nDesign, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and libraries spanning REST APIs, UI (React), security, and end-to-end/integration layers.\n\nWrite production-quality code for test harnesses, device simulators, performance tools and mocks that emulate IoT device behavior and video streams at scale.\n\nBuild and maintain tooling that improves testability across the stack - including for distributed, event-driven components (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis).\n\nIntegrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, optimizing for fast, reliable feedback on every build and deployment.\n\nEvaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and approaches to keep test infrastructure scalable as the platform and team grow.\n\nEngineering Collaboration & Architecture\nParticipate as a technical peer in design sessions, RFCs, and architecture discussions - advocating for testability, observability, and reliability from the start.\n\nReview code and pull requests with an eye toward correctness, edge cases, performance, and long-term maintainability.\n\nWork closely with backend and frontend engineers to understand system design and build automation that reflects real production behavior.\n\nContribute to system reliability by supporting monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting efforts, including issues involving device connectivity.\n\nTest Strategy & Coverage\nDesign test plans and strategies for new and existing features, deciding where automation adds the most value versus targeted manual/exploratory testing.\n\nDrive test coverage for IoT device configuration, monitoring, deployment, and connectivity workflows, as well as video playback, recording, and streaming features.\n\nValidate distributed cloud systems for correctness, performance, and resilience under realistic and edge-case load.\n\nOwn test estimation and planning as part of sprint and release cycles, working directly with engineering leads.\n\nQuality Leadership\nAct as a proactive voice for quality across the engineering org - identifying systemic risks early and proposing engineering solutions (not just flagging bugs).\n\nMentor other engineers and QA team members on automation practices, framework usage, and testable design.\n\nProvide direct, technically grounded feedback to developers and stakeholders when quality or architecture decisions are at risk.\n\nWhat You Bring\nMust-Have:\n5+ years of experience in software testing with strong hands-on coding ability - this is a build-things role, not primarily a manual-execution role.\n\nStrong programming skills in Python, plus working proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Rust, sufficient to build and maintain real test infrastructure and tooling.\n\nDemonstrated experience designing and building test automation frameworks from the ground up (API, UI, or integration layers), not just using existing ones.\n\nComfortable working in Linux environments.\n\nSolid understanding of AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, or similar) and how they underpin distributed, serverless SaaS applications.\n\nExperience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and treating test infrastructure as a first-class engineering deliverable.\n\nAbility to read and reason about production code, participate meaningfully in code reviews, and collaborate with developers as a technical peer.\n\nStrong systems thinking - able to reason about distributed, event-driven, and resilience-focused architectures.\n\nExcellent communication skills, with the confidence to give direct, technically substantiated feedback to developers and stakeholders.\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical/engineering experience.\n\nNice-to-Have:\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code tools (CDK, Terraform, Serverless Framework) for provisioning test environments.\n\nExperience with IoT device communication protocols and building device simulators for test purposes.\n\nExperience with video development, video streaming technologies, or testing video pipelines.\n\nFamiliarity with production monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch).\n\nExperience with Snowflake, Elasticsearch, or other cloud-native data platforms.\n\nContributions to open-source testing/automation tools, or strong personal projects demonstrating framework design skills.\n\nPrior experience in a fast-growing SaaS environment.\n\nInterest in eventually contributing to product code, or a background that blends SDET and full-stack development work.\n\nSecurity Requirements\nCandidates must undergo a criminal records check upon hire.\n\nCandidates will be required to attend at least one (1) in-person interview at the Ottawa office.\n\nMust be a Canadian citizen (dual citizens included) or eligible to work in Canada.\n\nMust be willing to comply with Solink's security policies and standards.\n\nMandatory onboarding in Ottawa during the first week of employment.\n\nPeriodic in-person visits required (quarterly basis) for non-Ottawa based employees\n\nOur Values\nWe do things the Solink way:\nAct with URGENCY - Our customers move fast, so we do too.\n\nDeliver with QUALITY - We sweat the details and hold a high bar.\n\nWin with TEAM - No egos. Just outcomes, built together.\n\nLead with TRUST - We earn it through clarity, consistency, and care.\n\nThese aren’t just words-they shape how we hire, lead, and grow.\nWhy Solink?\nWe’re not just building tech - we’re building a place where great people do great work.\nClarity and trust: Where the role allows, we support flexibility in how and where work gets done - and we’re upfront about what’s required.\n\nMeaningful equity: Every full-time, permanent employee has a stake in our growth.\n\nComprehensive benefits: Fully paid health & dental (no waiting period) + $500 health spending account.\n\nWellness support: Monthly reimbursement for fitness, wellness, or mental health programs.\n\nGrowth through merit: Advancement is based on contribution, initiative, and the ability to raise the bar - together.\n\nCandid culture: Clear expectations, honest feedback, and no politics.\n\nSocial connection: From So-learns to Solink-o and So-lunches, we stay connected in ways that actually feel fun.\n\nWhat to Expect from the Hiring Process\nWe respect your time and value transparency. Here’s a general idea of what to expect:\nIntro call with our Talent Team\n\nInterview with the Hiring Manager\n\nTechnical Panel Interview & cross-functional team members\n\nFinal CTO Interview\n\nReference Checks\n\nOffer & onboarding\n\nPlease note: this is subject to change at any point in the recruitment process based on the needs of the business.\nHow to Apply\nSubmit your resume and a short cover letter via our [Careers Page]. Let us know what excites you about this role, and how you’d help move Solink forward.\nNOTICE: Solink uses artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, and/or select candidates for this position.\n Solink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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