Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quarterhill Inc. is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to support quality engineering for a cloud-native platform built on event-driven microservices. The role focuses on designing and maintaining automated unit, integration, contract, performance, and end-to-end testing, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, validating Kubernetes deployments, and driving quality metrics.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own automated test suites across the platform, spanning unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests, with test code maintained to the same standard as production code
- Build and maintain contract and integration tests across our microservices, validating behavior at service boundaries and across the event bus rather than only at the UI
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, so they run on every commit and gate release
- Build performance and load tests that model production transaction volumes and peak conditions and establish throughput and latency baselines
- Test asynchronous and event-driven workflows, including data consistency across services
- Validate deployment configurations across multi- and single-tenant, cloud, and on-premises targets
- Stand up and maintain test environments in Kubernetes, including ephemeral environments for automated runs
- Define and track quality metrics such as coverage, defect density, escape rate, and flaky-test rate, and drive them in the right direction over time
- Partner with engineers early in the development cycle to make features testable and to shift quality left
- Document test strategy, plans, and results for complex features and releases, and work independently with minimal supervision on that strategy
Skills
- 4-year degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 5 years in a QA or test engineering role with a strong automation focus. You write test code as your primary work, not as an occasional add-on to manual testing
- Hands-on experience building automated test suites for both web applications and backend services using modern frameworks, for example Playwright or Cypress for front end and language-native frameworks for services
- Experience testing distributed, microservice, or event-driven systems, including API testing (REST and/or gRPC) and contract testing such as Pact
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, for example GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes for running and isolating tests
- Strong SQL skills for data validation
- Solid grounding in quality assurance methodologies and in Agile delivery with user stories and iterative releases
- Performance and load testing experience with tools such as k6, Gatling, or Locust, especially for high-volume transaction processing
- Familiarity with modern systems language such as Rust and a modern TypeScript framework
- Property-based testing, fuzzing, or experience testing transaction-accuracy systems
- Experience validating systems that deploy to both cloud and on-premises environments
Benefits
- Paid days off (i. e. vacatio n, sick days, bereavement leave)
- Health and Dental plans
- Retirement plans
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Employee referral program
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