Software Test Engineer 2, DevOps
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Job Summary
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 todays volatility and disruption. With more than 40000 users in over 100 countries we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
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Chennai India
About the team
Kinaxis is looking for a Deployment Specialist to support our Market Validation (MV) environments which are production-like environments used by our Business Consulting teams for customer demos betas and validationsand alsotosupport and help evolveour Product Verification (PV) Release Regression this roleyoullhelp keep MV environments stable and demo-ready while partnering withEngineering(Development) teams tomaintaindependable regression pipelines and clear quality signals.
- Orchestrate automated deployments and upgrades for multiple Market Validation (MV) environments used for demos betas and customer validation;maintainrunbooks and standard operating procedures in Confluence and track work/change requests in Jira.
- Build andmaintaindeployment automation (scripts and CI/CD pipelines) to provision configureupgradeand validate MV environments.
- Support PV Release Regression runs; investigate failures improve diagnostics and help keep regression runs actionable and consistent.
- Log PV Release Regression outcomes consistently in Jira; document regression procedures known issues and troubleshooting guidance in Confluence.
- Triage failures across deployments environments and regression pipelines: collect artifacts isolatelikely cause(test pipeline environment or product) apply safe mitigations whereappropriate and escalate withclear evidence.
- Monitor MV environment health and proactively address common risks (configuration drift expiring certificatescapacity constraints&failing integrations) to protect demo readiness.
- Update automated tests and pipeline logic when application behavior changes; help convert manual test plans into automated checks and integrate them into shared regression/E2E suites.
- Help define and track operational success measures for MV readiness
- Maintainregression health and drive continuous improvements based on data.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve operational efficiency (e.g. log analysis failure triage deployment insights) and toidentifypatterns in deployment failures flaky tests and environment instability; proactively recommend mitigations.
- Core requirements
- 3 years in deployment/release engineering environment operations DevOps or test automation supporting multi-componententerprise applications.
- Strongtroubleshootingskills: logs configs integrations and pipeline failures; able to create clear escalation packages and follow issues through to resolution.
- Hands-on scripting/programming across multiple languages used in test and pipeline ecosystems such asJava VBScript BatchShellPowerShellTypeScript Groovy and Python.
- Strong Git fundamentals and experience collaborating via pull requests and code reviews.
- Deployment automation & Orchestration
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (e.g. Jenkins/Groovy GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Cloud Build) including scheduling gated runs post-deployverification and artifact retention.
- Validation regression and test automation
- Experience executing and troubleshooting automated regression/E2E suites used as quality gates for official and release builds comfortable updating tests when application behavior changes.
- Experience with test automation frameworks/tools (e.g. JUnit/TestNG pytest Playwright/Selenium/UFT) and improving diagnostics/reporting (flake reduction actionable results).
- Environment operations
- Experience supporting production-like environments with monitoring/alerting certificate awareness (TLS) and basic networking concepts (DNS). Kubernetes/container exposure is an asset. Public cloud experience is also an asset (e.g. understanding common resources and concepts in Azure and/or GCP)
- Ways of working
- Clear communicator who can work across time zones with Business Consulting PV and Engineering teams; comfortable with incident-style workflows.
- Education
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience).
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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the worlds 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 were 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 or the companys blog at .
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 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.
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About Company
Revolutionize supply chain management with Kinaxis. Get end-to-end transparency to make fast, collaborative decisions with the power of concurrency.
