AI-First QA Automation Engineer (C#/.NET, Azure)

Quest Software; Nova Scotia; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Annual bonuses

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work options

Professional growth programs

Job summary

Quest Software is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to advance AI-first QA automation practices for the On Demand Migration product on Microsoft Azure. This role targets an experienced engineer skilled in C#/.NET, Azure, and AI-assisted development to implement automated tests and manage cloud QA labs.

As part of an agile SCRUM team, you will design automation workflows, maintain QA environments, and ensure high-quality releases with low defect rates through modern QA/QC practices.

Qualifications

• Completion of a computer science undergraduate degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 3+ years working experience in commercial software development.
• Demonstrated experience using AI coding agents, AI-assisted development tools, or agentic automation workflows as a substantial part of real software development work.
• Advanced practical experience with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, or comparable AI-powered development platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI coding tools to improve software design, implementation productivity, code quality, automated testing, debugging, troubleshooting, refactoring, code review, or technical documentation.
• Experience maintaining and extending product QA/QC environments with techniques such as mocking, automation, integration testing, code coverage.
• Experience with ad-hoc testing of applications on Microsoft Windows desktop and server operating systems.
• Knowledge of virtual machines, networking, and cloud environments, to be able to provision, configure, and secure complex test environments in the cloud.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Able to help replicate and diagnose customer issues for the development team.
• Demonstrated experience with source control (Git) and issue tracking (Azure DevOps) systems in a team environment.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the adoption of AI-first QA automation practices across the project team.
• Use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development platforms extensively in day-to-day product engineering, including solution design, implementation, automated testing, debugging, troubleshooting, refactoring, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Design reusable prompts, agent instructions, automation workflows, validation steps, and guardrails that enable consistent and responsible AI-assisted software development.
• Build, test, document, and maintain QA/QC systems for several products in an Agile lifecycle using C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure technologies.
• Contribute as a member of an agile SCRUM team and be motivated to produce high-quality product releases with low defect rates by utilizing the latest QA/QC best practices

Skills

AI coding agents

AI-assisted development

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Windsurf

Azure DevOps

Selenium

Job description

Quest Software is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to advance AI-first QA automation practices for the On Demand Migration product on Microsoft Azure. This role targets an experienced engineer skilled in C#/.NET, Azure, and AI-assisted development to implement automated tests and manage cloud QA labs.

As part of an agile SCRUM team, you will design automation workflows, maintain QA environments, and ensure high-quality releases with low defect rates through modern QA/QC practices.