Magnetforensics4d ago

Software Development Engineer in Test

Canada·OttawaRemoteFull-Timemid

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OtherSoftware Development Engineer In Test

Who We Are; What We Do; Where We’re Going

Magnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigative software that acquires, analyzes, and shares evidence from computers, smartphones, tablets, and IoT-related devices. We are continually innovating so our customers can deploy advanced and effective tools to protect their companies, communities, and countries.

Serving thousands of customers globally, our solutions are playing a crucial role in modernizing digital investigations, helping investigators fight crime, protect assets, and guard national security.

With employees based around the world, Magnet Forensics has been expanding our global presence. As a part of Magnet Forensics, you can expect to make a difference in the world, no matter what role you play. You’ll be supported through learning and development, not to mention an incredible team with unbelievable talent and integrity.

If you think you would be the right person to join our team working towards this goal, we would love to hear from you!

You will work closely with Engineers, Product Managers, and Senior Quality Leaders to ensure quality is built in early and continuously, not added at the end.

This role is ideal for someone who is comfortable owning quality for features or services, contributes meaningfully to automation and CI/CD flows, and is ready to grow toward more senior technical leadership.

Work on meaningful products where quality truly matters.

Learn from experienced quality and engineering leaders.

Grow technical depth and ownership over time.

Contribute to modern quality practices and tooling.

Clear progression path toward Senior or Staff Quality Engineering roles.

Own quality for assigned features, services, or components.

Design and execute risk-based test approaches aligned to product intent.

Identify gaps in coverage and propose practical improvements.

Participate actively in story refinement, design discussions, and planning.

Build and maintain automated tests across API, UI, and integration layers.

Contribute to existing test frameworks and tooling.

Write clear, maintainable, production-quality test code.

Help ensure automation is reliable, meaningful, and provides fast feedback.

Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide timely quality signals.

Monitor pipeline health, test failures, and flakiness.

Collaborate with engineers to keep pipelines fast and trustworthy.

Learn and apply evolving approaches, including agent-assisted or agentic workflows, where appropriate.

Partner with software engineers to improve testability and design.

Raise quality risks early with context and evidence.

Participate in root-cause analysis and defect prevention discussions.

Learn when to push back—and when to accept trade-offs.

Learn from senior QEs and technical leaders through reviews and mentoring.

Reflect on what works (and doesn’t) in testing and quality practices.

Gradually take on more complex problems and ownership as skills grow.

3+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Engineering, or Software Engineering.

Experience supporting quality for production software systems.

Experience working on a cross-functional product or delivery team.

Solid foundation in test automation (API and UI preferred).

Ability to read, understand, and write production-level code.

Familiarity with CI/CD systems and modern development workflows.

Experience with AI-assisted or agentic testing workflows.

Exposure to contract testing, performance testing, or reliability testing.

Familiarity with developer tooling or platform teams.

Experience with Jenkins, Grafana, playwright and Linux.

Experience with writing C#.

The Compensation range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. Please note that the actual compensation may vary depending on location and job-related factors such as qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location and you are selected for an interview, the Talent Acquisition Partner can share more information with you. If the compensation structure for the role includes an incentive component (i.e. most Sales roles) the range below represents total target compensation (TTC) (base salary + variable).

$90,000 - $140,000 (CAD) a year
Salary range (min - max)

Position Type: New Vacancy