Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Upgrade, Inc. is a fintech company that provides affordable and responsible financial products to help customers improve their financial well-being. The Senior QA Automation Engineer will architect and build test automation infrastructure, tooling, and agentic solutions, while developing, deploying, and operating production services that improve engineering productivity. The role will partner with product teams to identify automation needs, develop solutions from prototypes through production, and improve existing frameworks and tools.
Responsibilities
- Design and own automation framework for functional and performance testing
- Build agents to automate existing QA/testing workflows and remove engineering friction
- Build the applications and services that automation depends on, deploy them, and operate them in production environments
- Take prototypes all the way. Build demos in a timely manner, gather feedback from the teams who'd use it, and iterate through successive versions until it's hardened, monitored, and running with matured quality
- Identify gap areas in existing frameworks and tools, and iterate toward solutions that close them
Skills
- 5-7+ years building production software, with demonstrated depth across test infrastructure, test frameworks, and developer tooling, and working knowledge of platform engineering
- Proven track record building agentic solutions and test automation frameworks from the ground up — designed, shipped, iterated on, and adopted as part of how other engineers work
- Fluency with agentic coding tools as part of your daily workflow: ability to orchestrate multiple agents to execute, review agent-generated PRs
- Hands-on experience with micro-services, Kubernetes and managing deployment lifecycle
- Ability to take an ambiguous problem statement to a scoped, defensible solution independently
- This is a fully remote position open to candidates who are based in Canada or the US
- Employees working remotely are responsible for maintaining a secure and productive workspace with reliable internet connectivity that supports company systems and safeguards the confidentiality of company and customer information
- English is required for all positions, as it involves interacting with staff at Upgrade's offices worldwide
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Paid parental leave
- Health & wellness initiatives
- Fully remote position for candidates based in Canada or the US
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