Senior QA Automation Architect (Remote)

Upgrade, Inc.; Calgary; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, dental & vision

Flexible PTO

Growth opportunities

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Upgrade, Inc. is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to architect and build test automation infrastructure, enabling fast, trusted software releases.

This fully remote role welcomes candidates based in Canada or the US, and focuses on developing scalable automation services that production teams rely on. You will design and own the automation framework, build agents to streamline QA workflows, and deploy these services to production clusters.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years building production software with test infrastructure and developer tooling.
• Proven track record building agentic solutions from the ground up—designed, shipped, iterated.
• Fluency with agentic coding tools to orchestrate multiple agents in workflows.
• Hands-on experience with micro-services, Kubernetes and deployment lifecycle.

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, gather feedback, iterate to hardened, monitored quality.
• Identify gap areas in existing frameworks and tools, and implement close-the-gap solutions.

Skills

Test automation

Agentic tooling

Kubernetes

Microservices

Distributed systems

Tools

Automation frameworks

Job description

Upgrade, Inc. is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to architect and build test automation infrastructure, enabling fast, trusted software releases.

This fully remote role welcomes candidates based in Canada or the US, and focuses on developing scalable automation services that production teams rely on. You will design and own the automation framework, build agents to streamline QA workflows, and deploy these services to production clusters.