Senior Quality Assurance Automation Developer (Home Equity Line of Credit)

Upgrade; Canada; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option plan

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible PTO

Growth opportunities

Wellness programs

Parental leave

Job summary

Upgrade is seeking a Senior QA Automation Developer to own the end-to-end quality of a new product. You will build automated tests and perform functional testing to ensure a seamless banking experience for our customers.

You will collaborate with product teams, define testing strategies, and drive automation using Java, Selenium/Playwright, and AI-assisted workflows. You will also deploy disposable environments to validate microservices across configurations, leveraging Docker/Kubernetes and CI

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building automated test suites.
• Strong hands-on with Java-based automation.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end QA automation for the new product.
• Define testing strategies with product teams.
• Develop functional and performance tests with AI tools.
• Create disposable environments to test microservices.

Skills

Automation testing

Java

AI tooling familiarity

Agile

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

• We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Developer to join our team who has end-to-end ownership to build a new quality product. Through automation and functional testing, they validate a variety of products to offer our customers a seamless banking experience
• As a Senior QA Engineer, you will work directly with our product teams and will participate in application specification reviews and architectural design sessions by providing input from a quality standpoint. You will also identify testing strategies for various features and functionalities
• Within your first year, you will develop an understanding of how to deliver high performing software at pace of development. You will work in an environment that promotes ownership at all levels including configuring and monitoring apps in production
• Develop test automation at the pace of feature development utilizing AI tools and our functional and performance test frameworks
• Utilize LLMs to create feature test plans and internal knowledge stores for streamlining AI tools usage for Automation and Deep testing efforts
• Define custom AI workflows to enable all developers to test new features using existing automation tests, evaluate test failures, and troubleshoot environment issues
• Execute functional/performance tests by spinning up disposable environments on demand to deploy microservices with different versions and configurations, and customize database content
• Customize, configure, patch services, and deploy infrastructure and code changes all the way through to production
• Analyze log files and troubleshoot production issues by automating and reproducing them in a non-production environment
• Collaborate with QA platform to create solutions for feature validations and test automation for your product

Benefits

• Stock option plan
• 100% paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Health & wellness initiatives
• Paid parental leave

Passion for automating tests and delivering high quality features in a fast paced environment Comfortable working in Agile methodology Familiarity with log aggregators such as SumoLogic or Kibana, and app monitoring tools such as Honeycomb or Grafana Ability to develop test automation in Java using Selenium/Playwright to utilize Integrated Development environments (IDE) such as IntelliJ or Eclipse, with and without Coding assistants Capability to improve efficiency of existing test infrastructure using Docker, Playwright and headless browser executions Experience in deploying services in various environments such as Kubernetes, using deployment tools like ArgoCD and Jenkins