Agriculture Test Engineer

Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division is looking for an Agriculture Test Engineer to join our high-tech engineering and manufacturing company that is committed to customer service excellence and continuous improvement. Reporting to our Agriculture Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for promoting and leading best system test practice whilst designing automated and manual test suites. This is an exciting chance for you to deliver step changes while working with modern technologies.

The Company: Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector and mobility applications. You’ll be joining over 22,000 people in 50 countries on the leading edge of your field.

This position is with Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division, a global technology leader, pioneering end-to-end solutions industry leaders rely on for assured positioning and autonomy on land, sea and air. Our work touches every aspect of life, from sustainability on Earth to enabling autonomy. Within the Autonomy & Positioning division your work will contribute to the operation of our brand NovAtel.

The Location: Hexagon is a global company with locations around the world. This position is based in Calgary, Alberta. Come see why we are recognized as one of Alberta’s Top 75 Employers for the past three years.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement both automated and manual software testing suites for Hexagon Autonomy & Positioning‘s agriculture products
• Promote and lead our best practices across software and systems testing
• Define, develop, and carry out test processes and tools
• Test all software delivered as per defined test schedules and processes including documentation
• Participate and contribute to Hexagon A&P’s test engineering community of practice
• Develop, iterate, monitor, and report performance and contextual metrics
• Create data characterization models using statistics, mathematics, and data analytics

Qualifications

Must-Have:

• 3+ years’ experience in software test design and execution or software development with a large proportion of testing
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Geomatics or related discipline
• Excellent analytical skills and be able to produce high-quality testing reports, procedures, and other similar documentation
• Valid driver’s license and vehicle

Nice-to-Have:

• 10+ years’ experience in software test design and execution or software development with a large proportion of testing
• Previous agriculture/farm experience
• Experience with test automation and/or worked within a formal software testing environment
• Understanding of web-based bug tracking and project software (e.g. JIRA )
• Knowledge of data analytics to process and visualize complex product performance data sets
• Scripting experience using Python
• Understanding of GPS/GNSS technology and products
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operators license

Key Success Factors:

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills (English) to communicate at all levels
• Collaborative and team oriented to work with multi-disciplinary groups
• Ability to take tasks and projects to closure
• Passion for large scale data solutions and desire to continually learn and stay on top of the latest technology trends
• Constantly focused on continuous improvement using new tools, new technologies, new processes
• High attention to detail
• Self-motivated problem-solver

If you require any special accommodation, please email our team at [email protected] and we will be pleased to follow up with you.