KONE Technology and Innovation (KTI) is where the magic happens at KONE. It's where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE R&D brings together top talent from different disciplines into an industry-leading product and technology organization. We thrive in solving complex customer challenges, connecting legacy with the latest technologies, across hardware and software engineering. In fact, roughly half of our R&D roles are in software. Agile ways of working mean that we are better able to meet our customers’ rapidly evolving needs for speed and innovation, in a global environment.

R&D unit in KTI is responsible for developing digital services at KONE. It’s the development engine for our Digital Services such as KONE 24/7 Connected Services, Office Flow and Partnership Ecosystem.

We are now looking for several test automation professionals

Test Experts / (Senior) Test Specialists, Embedded Linux Platform

to join our team and help us test our growing family of onsite devices

What is our challenge for you?

Our embedded Linux platform, KONE Common Linux (KCL), provides a variety of services including cybersecurity, device enrollment, connectivity and communication. We build our platform using the Yocto builld system and our platform most recently evolved to host containers for some applications. We have a growing family of onsite devices running our embedded platform. The next chapter of our platform brings edge capabilities to KONE’s global fleet. We continue to develop features for our elevator base and also for escalators, UI devices and more. As the platform grows our testing complexity grows with it and we want to ensure that our devices are tested as thoroughly as possible. We also want our CI pipelines to have fast cycles and keep our development teams running smoothly. We have positions open also for more senior experts who have vision of how to take large complex test frameworks forward in the future.

 To be successful in this role

-You have 3+ years of experience in test automation development

-You have strong Python, bash and command line fu

-You have experience with CICD and Gitlab

-You have a holistic view over the testing framework and seek to improve it

-You use Robot Framework

-You love to automate

-You love catching bugs

-You love Linux

What can we offer for you?

You will be working with our experts in agile software development teams, testing our family of onsite compute devices. Our devices are helping to bring connectivity to KONE’s elevators, escalators and UI devices on a harmonized Linux platform.

For further information please contact Robert Taylor, Head of KCL Platform by email robert.taylor@kone.com

We offer

We offer flexible working time, remote working opportunities and we also support commuting to work. In this role, you can work from our Hyvinkää or Espoo office as a primary location, depending on which one is more convenient location for you. As we have a hybrid working model, you can work remotely a few days a week.

Want to join the #PeopleFlow?

Want to join the #PeopleFlow? If you think this could be your next inspiring challenge, please submit your application as soon as possible via our Careers-site Collaborate, innovate, thrive | KONE Careers latest by September 3rd, 2025.

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