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Senior Software Test Engineer
Position: R&D Senior Member of Technical Staff, Product Test
Location: Sundsvall, Sweden
Employment type: Full-time regular with flexible working options
Benefits: Competitive salary, 3 days paid volunteering, wellness allowance 5000 SEK, health check every other year, employee assistance program
The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Software Test Engineer for AVEVA’s Core Services team. This position is responsible for ensuring product quality through hands-on testing, creation of detailed test plans and acceptance criteria, development and maintenance of automated tests, and overall leadership of QA activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
What You'll Do
Own the QA strategy and quality standards for the Scrum team, ensuring testing best practices are consistently applied. Advocate for quality across the team by promoting testability, automation, and continuous improvement.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Developers, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and define high quality acceptance criteria for user stories.
Create comprehensive test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation for new features and enhancements.
Participate in backlog refinement and sprint planning to identify risks, dependencies, and testing needs early in the cycle.
Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for UI, API, integration, regression, and performance scenarios.
Evaluate and optimize test automation frameworks to ensure reliability and efficiency.
Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.
Perform manual exploratory, functional, integration, and regression testing as needed.
Essential Requirements:
Proven experience as a Software Test Engineer or QA Engineer within Agile/Scrum teams.
Strong expertise in writing test plans, acceptance criteria, and detailed test cases.
Hands-on experience developing automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG, or similar.
Working knowledge of CI/CD environments (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
Solid understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail with the ability to break down complex requirements
Desired Skills & Competencies:
Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
Experience with cloud infrastructure or cloud-based application testing.
Experience with tools such as Visual Studio test frameworks, C#, PowerShell, Python, or API test automation tools.
Experience working in Agile/SCRUM environments.
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)
Knowledge of RESTful APIs
Familiarity with communication protocols and technologies such as MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus, Kafka, WebSockets or RabbitMQ
Interest in engineering or industrial automation
We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives. If you don't check every box but are excited about the role, please apply anyway – we're interested in your potential and what you can bring to the team.
About R&D at AVEVA
Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design. AI and cloud are at the centre of our strategy, and we have over 150 patents to our name.
Our track record of innovation is no fluke – it’s the result of a structured and deliberate focus on learning, collaboration and inclusivity. If you want to build applications that solve big problems, join us!
Find out more: https://www.aveva.com/en/about/careers/r-and-d-careers/
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Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world.