Software qa engineer Jobs in Waterloo, ON

PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Engineer who will contribute to best practice application development by writing and rigorously defending production-grade code on a regular basis, while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered Scrum team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring the ability to design and implement features from the ground-up while mentoring other team members and delivering both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty.

To succeed as a Principal Software Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be collaborative, adventurous and passionate. Collaborative means thatyou’re enthusiastic about jumping in to help achieve the team’s top priorities, no self-promoting politicians allowed. Adventurous means that you’re not afraid to dive into uncharted technical territory and get your own hands dirty while supporting and driving delivery of complex features through a dedicated Scrum team.Passionate means that you’re eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward and excited to be part of a movement that is positively impacting the lives of seniors and their caregivers all over North America

Principals are part of scrum teams so are expected to contribute to the team deliverables as well as contributing to system design and leading initiatives

What your day-to-day will look like :

• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Work with business to iterate over software requirements
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Analyze and debug systems
• Perform validation and verification testing in a test-driven manner
• Review the work of others,and invite others to review your work
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products
• Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies

What qualifications we’re looking for :

Bonus points for :

Prompt Engineering for Productivity – Strong ability to craft effective prompts for AI tools like GitHub Copilot to generate, refactor, and explain code.

AI-Augmented Development in IDEs – Daily use of IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ, VS Code, Cursor) with AI-powered extensions (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Junie, Windsurf) to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging tasks.

AI in the SDLC Beyond Code – Leverages AI for writing documentation, generating test cases, summarizing technical discussions, and assisting with incident response or backlog grooming.

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155,000 - $172,000 a year

AtPointClickCare, base salary is one of the many components that make up our total rewards package.The CAD base salary rangefor this position is $155,000-172,000 (not overtime eligible) + bonus + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined byjob and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the target for new hire salaries for the position across all CADlocations. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by job-related skills and knowledge, relevant experienceincluding professional and lived experience, and / or work location. Your recruiter can share more information about ourtotal rewards package during the hiring process.

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