Software Quality Automation engineer

Salary Competitive

Do you want to be part of an international and innovative team, and help develop next generation security platform? We are an experienced and successful team with offices in Oslo, Norway and California, USA who have set out on a mission to “Secure the World’s Connected Devices”. Mender.io recently partnered with Google, got awarded more than EUR 2 million from EU, is based on open source, and has in a short period of time become a standard for over-the-air (OTA).


Main responsibilities

  • Continuously develop code and leverage automation to reduce test cycle times
  • Maintain and improve test automation framework fully integrated with our CI-system
  • Ensure a miminum of 75% test coverage of new code (developers are responsible for writing tests)
  • Develop new end-to-end integration test
  • Analyze, identify and manage bugs and system defects
  • Develop and maintain monitoring and test tooling used for Hosted Mender
  • Maintain and improve software release scripts

Other shared tasks

  • Work with and enable developers to ensure new features are well documented and easy to understand
  • Be responsible for always seeking to reduce overall time from code commit to production ready code
  • Develop and maintain various testing tools used for development and testing

Desired skills and experience

  • Experienced Linux software tester and developer with minimum 3 years experience
  • Solid understanding of the HTTP protocol and REST API
  • Programming experience in Python and Shell
  • Basic understanding of Go, or strong desire to learn Go
  • Experience with the following technologies: Docker, Docker-compose, Jenkins/Travis, AWS, Selenium/WebDriver
  • In possession of the "automation DNA" who proactively fixes problems, and hates manual work
  • Communicate well with both developers, operations and product members, and being able to convey messages and issues clearly
  • Entrepreneurial attitude; pro-actively getting things done and being creative in finding new and better ways of doing things
  • A curious investigator that takes pride in finding hidden bugs and issues

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Near public transit
Near public transit

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Equity package
Equity package

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Working at
Northern.tech

At Northern.tech we want to build a suite of ease-to-use security products for the connected world. Each product shall not only be a single-purpose product, but also complement each other to give our customers the option to pick and choose the products that best fits their needs. Our products shall address the needs of everyone from small companies to large enterprises - world wide. At Northern.tech, we are a team with a mission. We want to build great products, deliver amazing service to our customers, and create an enjoyable & inspiring place to work.

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