Senior QA Automation Engineer: AI-Driven Testing

Activate Games; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Benefits package

Paid time off

Casual dress

Employee discount

On-site parking

Job summary

Activate Games is expanding its Winnipeg team and seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to elevate automation across game software and interactive platforms. You will design and maintain AI-driven testing frameworks, partner with developers to improve testability, and drive CI/CD integrations to ensure rapid, reliable releases.

The role requires 6+ years in software quality, strong automation fundamentals, and experience with AI-assisted or agentic testing approaches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Six+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, SDET, or software quality assurance, including at least three years focused on test automation.
• Significant hands-on experience designing, building, or improving reusable automation frameworks, test platforms, or developer-quality tooling.
• Strong programming proficiency in at least one language commonly used for test automation.
• Experience testing APIs, services, asynchronous workflows, data stores, distributed systems, and user interfaces.
• Experience integrating automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of modern testing practices: test isolation, determinism, testability, layered automation, contract testing, integration testing, regression testing, UI automation, non-functional testing.
• Experience using AI-assisted or agentic testing approaches (LLM-driven test generation, exploratory agents, self-healing automation, coverage analysis, failure diagnosis).
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, or AI-agent orchestration (preferred).
• Experience enabling developers to adopt shared automation frameworks and improve quality practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining automation strategy and risk.
• Reliable transportation with ability to travel to Activate locations for deployment and in-venue testing.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Activate's Quality Engineering strategy across software, games, venue technology, APIs, services, and digital products with a layered test architecture.
• Design, build, and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, fixtures, and CI/CD templates for speed and reliability.
• Establish standards for test design, coding quality, evidence capture, and release readiness.
• Apply AI-assisted and agentic techniques to improve coverage, speed, or diagnostics while ensuring determinism and safe data handling.
• Partner with developers to improve system testability and ensure features include automated coverage and observability.
• Define test environments and privacy-safe test-data factories; use mocks or service virtualization where appropriate.
• Integrate automated validation into PRs, builds, deployments, and release workflows with clear evidence of failures.

Skills

Automation test design

API testing

AGILE / Jira

AI-assisted testing

Programming for test automation

QA leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Activate Games is expanding its Winnipeg team and seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to elevate automation across game software and interactive platforms. You will design and maintain AI-driven testing frameworks, partner with developers to improve testability, and drive CI/CD integrations to ensure rapid, reliable releases.

The role requires 6+ years in software quality, strong automation fundamentals, and experience with AI-assisted or agentic testing approaches.