Senior Engineer SDET Cloud - Aptiv

Senior Engineer (SDET) Cloud

Location: Kanata, ON

YOUR ROLE

Within the Wind River Cloud team, this role focuses on ensuring the quality and reliability of the Wind River Conductor platform, a key orchestration engine in the Wind River Cloud Platform (WRCP). The position blends software development and advanced test automation to validate large-scale distributed systems built on Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native technologies.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

In your daily work, you will:

Develop and test software for a complete cloud infrastructure software stack

Design and build scalable test automation for Wind River Conductor Design and implement high-quality code based on Kubernetes, containerized applications and distributed cloud systems

Develop end-to-end, integration, and system-level tests for distributed cloud systems

Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automation-first practices

Validate Kubernetes-based deployments across distributed environments

Own regression testing strategy, prioritization, and execution

Investigate and debug issues during product verification and customer integration

Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and test infrastructure

Work with open-source technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Helm, Ansible, and Docker

Support platform upgrades, automation, and lifecycle validation

Contribute and collaborate across development, QA/PV, and platform engineering teams

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field
• 5–7+ years of software engineering or SDET experience
• Strong Python programming skills
• Experience with Linux and shell scripting
• Experience testing and deploying software with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
• Experience working in Agile/SCRUM teams
• Experience building or testing distributed systems
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Cloudify or Wind River Cloud Platform

Understanding of OpenStack architecture (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)

Experience with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, YAML, and TOSCA

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks

Background in high-availability or carrier-grade systems

Contributions to open-source projects

Experience with performance, scale, or chaos testing

What's the impact of the role

Ensure production-grade quality and reliability of the Conductor platform

Drive automation-first validation strategy across Wind River Cloud

Improve release quality and reduce regressions across distributed cloud deployments