Test Engineer, Vaisala Oyj

Our client Vaisala Oyj is looking for a motivated Test Engineer with a strong desire to learn about future software testing methods to join their team. Your role will specifically focus on test automation design and testing of instrumentation, ensuring that it can be maintained efficiently and reliably in the future. Read more below and apply today as we are moving at a quick pace!

Kuvaus

As a Test Engineer, you will engage with test automation in various ways. Your responsibilities will include designing new test methods, enhancing existing test systems, and continuously improving testing processes. On a daily basis, you'll explore new technologies, identify potential failure points, and create and implement test scenarios, primarily using Python. Additionally, you'll maintain and develop test systems and handle small electronics tasks such as tracing wiring and establishing connections. You will be part of the Weather Stations software team consisting of 10+, highly skilled professionals. Together with the team, you will have an excellent opportunity to develop a groundbreaking platform for different meteorological and weather-related applications.

Leading performance, not location. Vaisala treasures face-to-face collaboration with colleagues, but hybrid work and flexibility are the new norm for them.
In this role hybrid work is possible with a minimum of 50% on-site requirement. The team works together in the office on Mondays and Thursdays.

You are offered in this role

• A platform to develop your professional skills with an experienced team of experts from a high-tech company
• Diverse, interesting and varied tasks and projects
• Hybrid work model.

What working at Vaisala offers you

• A great opportunity to work with products and systems that help save lives and mitigate climate change, e.g., in weather forecasting around the world.
• A chance to join a company that is the golden standard in the world when it comes to measuring and predicting weather and other environmental phenomena.
• You can invest your time to improve the quality of products, which are made to measure the most difficult measurable things in severe conditions – from deserts to glaciers to Mars!
• An interesting opportunity to work with a mixture of hardware and software products in a company that invested 12% of its net sales into R&D in 2022.

At Vaisala, they rely on their courage, curiosity, and world-class expertise to stay ahead and make a difference. Committed to being a great place to grow for brilliant minds from diverse backgrounds, we work together to build an inclusive community where everyone is welcome and belongs as they are. All talents applying to join our community will be considered without regard to their background. Our trust-based culture is the home for purpose-driven people who are inspired by our shared values, innovations, and impact for a better, sustainable world.

Work tasks

• Plan and develop well-structured and maintainable automated test cases.
• Maintain test suite’s quality and coverage.
• Participate in the improvement and maintenance the team’s CI/CD environment.

We are looking for

• Excellent skills in Python
• Experience with some frameworks. Robot Framework, Pytest, Unittest, etc.
• Knowledge of manual and automated software testing.
• Hands-on experience with Linux
• Fluency in English
• The person selected for the position must have a valid work permit for Finland.

Skills and competence that are seen as a plus:

• Basic electronics and networking skills.
• Previous experience of working with embedded devices
• Basic understanding of Git and experience with JIRA or other tools for Agile SW development.

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client’s wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.