Automation Quality Assurance Lead

Wärtsilä is leading the maritime industry’s transformation towards a decarbonised and sustainable future. We at Wärtsilä Marine Power are proud to offer our customers the world’s widest network of maritime expertise and the full portfolio from engines to lifecycle solutions. 

We want to change the course towards an interconnected and cleaner maritime future and are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services - together. Are you ready to jump onboard?

Wärtsilä Marine Power Solutions RDE (R&D and Engineering), Automation & Controls is looking for an Automation System Quality Assurance Lead. Our industry is entering a new era of innovation and unprecedented efficiency where Wartsila will bring value to all Marine and Energy applications worldwide by innovative use of new fuels and new control strategies. We are participating in the sustainable society creation by building power and energy management control systems for future generations. Our vision is to exceed customer expectations by providing best in class engine control systems for superior engine performance and functionality.

As a Quality Assurance Lead, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and quality of our embedded automation systems. Your expertise will contribute to the seamless integration of software and hardware components, guaranteeing exceptional user experiences for our customers.

Location for this position is Vaasa or Turku, Finland. We offer possibilities for hybrid remote work.

What we offer:

• Opportunity to make a difference in decarbonization of transportation and energy production.
• Being part of experienced and diverse self-driving cross functional teams.
• Possibility to work in an organisation applying industry best practises in daily way of working.
• Developing QA strategy and coordinating implementation for our embedded control system.
• Develop your skills in control system, software development and testing methodologies combined with good career development opportunities.
• Possibility to work in the state-of-the art R&D (research & development) environment in the new Sustainable Technology Hub Wartsila in Vaasa (https://www.wartsila.com/sth) or in the new Civil City office in Turku.
• Freedom and responsibility over your work enabling excellent work/life -balance.

Main responsibilities:

• Define an overall QA strategy and collaborate with architects, product managers/owners and technical leads to develop quality plans for our full stack automation system.
• Lead the definition of guidelines for testing in all levels of validation, verification, quality gates etc. which shall be implemented to achieve the set QA strategy.
• Participate on creating traceability between requirements, design, implementation and testing.
• Support Product owners with providing evidence of our QA system efficiency for Marine Classification agencies.
• Provide dashboards for QA quality gates and measures for transparency of quality.
• Participate in requirements gathering meetings and provide estimates for software test automation tasks.
• Support our DevOps team to develop test automation and management tools.
• Identify, communicate, and track issues to closure, working closely with cross-functional development teams.
• Promote and document automation testing processes, including automation of regression test sets.

Required Skills:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Automation, Process engineering, Computer Science or similar.
• Proven experience in developing and maintaining automated test plans and test cases.
• Familiarity with functional product, integration, and regression testing.
• ISTQB or ITIL certification is a plus.
• Experience with test automation tools like Robot framework.
• Additionally, tools/languages such as:
  • Java
  • Python
  • GIT
  • Atlassian toolset
• Test / behaviour driven development (TDD/BDD) mindset is crucial.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Passion for quality assurance and continuous improvement.
• Excellent teamworking, coaching and communication skills to spread the knowledge to the whole organization.
• Fluency in verbal and written English, our everyday work language is English.

Contact & next steps: 

Please submit your application before the application deadline 30th of April 2024 through our Careers portal. Applications through email will not be considered. After submitting your application you’ll receive a confirmation email. We try our best to get back to everyone within 2-3 weeks after application deadline.  

For more information, please contact:  

Mesimäki, Markus

General Manager, Automation System Lifecycle

Markus.mesimaki@wartsila.com

Last application date: 30/04/2024 

At Wärtsilä we value, respect and embrace all our differences, and are committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunities; everyone can be their true self and succeed based on their job-relevant merits and abilities. 

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Wärtsilä is a global leader in innovative technologies and lifecycle solutions for the marine and energy markets. Our team of 17,800 professionals, in more than 280 locations in 79 countries, shape the decarbonisation transformation of our industries across the globe. Read more on www.wartsila.com. 

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