QA Automation Engineer — AI-Powered MXDR Testing

Ontinue; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Microsoft training

Job summary

Ontinue, a leading AI-powered MXDR provider, is hiring a QA Automation Engineer in Canada to scale quality across a fast-moving engineering team. You’ll design automated tests for frontend, backend, and API flows using Playwright in TypeScript or C#, and coordinate release readiness in microservices-based systems.

Join a company that values independence, organization, and AI-assisted testing tools, with competitive salary, strong benefits, and access to Microsoft training.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in QA or test automation.
• Experience across frontend and API testing.
• Proficiency with Playwright or similar automation frameworks.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript or C#, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated tests for frontend, backend, and API flows.
• Use Playwright as a core testing platform, with tests written in TypeScript or C# depending on the best fit.
• Test microservices-based systems with an understanding of dependencies, release sequencing, and service interactions.
• Coordinate release readiness across the team, helping identify what needs to be tested first and what can go out together.
• Test Azure-based and event-driven workflows, including message-based scenarios such as Service Bus topics and related integrations.
• Combine automation with manual and exploratory testing where it adds the most value.
• Improve the way manual testing is enabled so it remains efficient and sustainable as the team grows.
• Collaborate closely with developers, the engineering manager, and other stakeholders to build a practical quality process.
• Use AI-assisted tools to speed up test creation, maintenance, triage, and analysis.
• Help ensure quality scales with the speed of the team instead of becoming a bottleneck.

Skills

QA experience

Test automation

Frontend testing

API testing

Playwright

TypeScript

C#

Azure

Release coordination

CI/CD

Tools

Playwright

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Ontinue, a leading AI-powered MXDR provider, is hiring a QA Automation Engineer in Canada to scale quality across a fast-moving engineering team. You’ll design automated tests for frontend, backend, and API flows using Playwright in TypeScript or C#, and coordinate release readiness in microservices-based systems.

Join a company that values independence, organization, and AI-assisted testing tools, with competitive salary, strong benefits, and access to Microsoft training.