Automation-First QA Engineer for Cloud-Native Microservices

Quarterhill Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid days off

Health plan

Dental plan

Retirement plan

EFAP

Employee referral program

Job summary

Quarterhill Inc. is seeking an automation-first quality engineer to design, build, and own automated test coverage for a cloud-native platform of event-driven microservices.

You will treat test code as production-grade, running tests with every change and validating quality across multi-tenant deployments. You will implement end-to-end automation, contract tests, and performance tests, collaborating with development to shift quality left.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own automated test suites across the platform, spanning unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests, with test code maintained to production standards.
• Build and maintain contract and integration tests across microservices, validating behavior at service boundaries and across the event bus.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, so they run on every commit and gate releases.
• Build performance and load tests that model production volumes and establish throughput/latency baselines.
• Test asynchronous and event-driven workflows, including data consistency across services.
• Validate deployment configurations across multi- and single-tenant, cloud, and on-premises targets.
• Stand up and maintain test environments in Kubernetes, including ephemeral environments for automated runs.
• Define and track quality metrics and drive them in the right direction over time.
• Partner with engineers early to make features testable and shift quality left.
• Document test strategy, plans, and results for complex features and releases.

Skills

Playwright

Cypress

API testing

CI/CD

Kubernetes

SQL

Agile

QA methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Quarterhill Inc. is seeking an automation-first quality engineer to design, build, and own automated test coverage for a cloud-native platform of event-driven microservices.

You will treat test code as production-grade, running tests with every change and validating quality across multi-tenant deployments. You will implement end-to-end automation, contract tests, and performance tests, collaborating with development to shift quality left.