Quality Automation Engineer

We help the world run better

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

This is a hybrid role based out of Waterloo. Hybrid is 3 days a week onsite and 2 days a week remote.

About the team:

Be a part of the exciting world of Digital Manufacturing SAP Digital Manufacturing enables innovations around analytics, resource scheduling, process manufacturing, machine data integration, edge computing, including Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). The solution is based on event driven microservice architecture involving open-source technologies, BTP, AWS, Azure Services.

SAP Digital Manufacturing is a strategic part of SAP Industry 4.0 solution. It is a powerful, enterprise-level, scalable, manufacturing business solution and enables global manufacturers to manage and control manufacturing and shop floor operations.

Our team is motivated by principles of user empathy, user experience, best-in-class technology, agile development, and multidisciplinary cooperation. Joining our team will give you an opportunity to apply your creativity while solving interesting and challenging problems with the industry's latest technology—while leading the quality strategy for features and services in an empowered product team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Quality Automation Engineer, you will:

• Lead the design and implementation of automated test strategies for new features and services.
• Analyze and decompose complex systems to define efficient, high-value test coverage and testability improvements.
• Design, build, and evolve automation frameworks and quality tooling in partnership with developers and DevOps engineers.
• Integrate automated tests deeply into CI/CD pipelines to improve signal quality, stability, and deployment confidence.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites (unit, integration, API, UI, end-to-end) that are maintainable and scalable.
• Troubleshoot and debug failures across services, infrastructure, and distributed cloud environments.
• Monitor and improve code quality using tools like SonarQube, Fortify, and code-coverage reporting.
• Collaborate with developers on testability, design decisions, and reliability concerns.
• Participate in on-call or developer-on-duty rotations to support operational excellence and customer experience.

ABOUT YOU:

You take initiative, own outcomes, and have strong engineering instincts. You thrive on building high-quality, customer-focused cloud software and you enjoy driving quality practices within an empowered team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, engineering or equivalent
• 2–5 years of experience building or maintaining automated test frameworks and automated test suites.
• Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, or a similar programming language.
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Selenium/WebDriver, JUnit/TestNG, JMeter, Postman, TOSCA).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and experience integrating automated tests into pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud environments or distributed systems (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Docker, or similar).
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence quality decisions across the team.
• Commitment to the full cloud software lifecycle: design, coding, testing, release, operations, and continuous improvement.

ASSETS:

• Experience with Spring, Jetty, OData, SAPUI5, or modern web technologies.
• Knowledge of code scanning and quality tools (Sonar, Fortify).
• Experience with microservices, distributed tracing, or cloud-scale testing.
• Relevant industry certifications.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in the Quebec.

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