Senior Staff Software Developer, Product Verification

About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

Ottawa and Toronto, Canada - Hybrid

Other Canadian locations - Remote

About the team

As part of our Product Verification team, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the quality of our product, Maestro — a mission-critical solution trusted by customers worldwide.

We focus on:
• Designing, executing, and analyzing automated user acceptance tests
• Translating real-world customer use cases into robust automated test strategies
• Delivering high-value results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Learning new skills, adapting to new technologies, and sharing knowledge across the organization

About the role

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

• Build and leverage AI tools to accelerate your impact
• Operate as a lead on assigned features and coordinate across teams to ensure requirements are met
• Translate business use cases into test strategies and automated tests
• Design, develop, and automate tests that validate both traditional system features and AI- orchestrated functionality
• Lead and coordinate evaluation activities, including execution, analysis, and reporting
• Report and manage defects through the full defect lifecycle, ensuring effective communication across teams
• Collaborate with R&D teams to analyze results and provide feedback
• Partner with field teams to ensure customer needs are met and exceeded
• Support Cloud Services in evaluating deployments and new hardware configurations
• Work with DevOps to leverage and improve tools, frameworks, and pipelines
• Stay current with technology trends and champion opportunities to accelerate R&D

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent
• 8+ years developing/testing complex enterprise applications
• Programming experience (Java, C#; scripting with Groovy, Python or Powershell)
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end automation tools (e.g., TestCafe, Playwright)
• Experience with AI to concretely increase efficiency
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Ability to work in *nix environments
• Familiarity with logging/monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog, ELK)
• Solid understanding of web, application server, and database tiers
• Agile development experience
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tools such as GHA, Jenkins
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Collaborative team player with excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to manage workloads in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to find opportunities to accelerate the SDLC through innovative application of AI or other tooling while upholding architecture consistency, secure design, and code-quality standards.

• Ability to review AI-generated code rigorously for correctness, architectural fit, integration risk, and edge case support with a growth mindset and bias for experimentation.

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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Unilever, P&G, ExxonMobil, Cisco and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to a long-term net-zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and here are some of the perks and benefits we offer, which may vary by location and employee:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.