Remote Senior QA Automation Engineer

Devconnectplatform; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock option plan

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Health & wellness programs

Job summary

Upgrade is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to architect and build test automation infrastructure. You will design and own automation services, deploy them to production, and collaborate with product teams to shape tooling that increases developer productivity.

The role emphasizes building agentic solutions, orchestrating multiple agents, and maturing testing capabilities across micro-services and Kubernetes environments. This is a fully remote US-based position.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years building production software with test infrastructure and developer tooling.
• Proven track record building agentic solutions and test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Fluency with agentic coding tools to orchestrate multiple agents to execute, review agent-generated PRs.
• Hands-on experience with micro-services, Kubernetes and deployment lifecycle.
• Ability to take an ambiguous problem statement to a scoped, defensible solution independently.

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 in a timely manner, gather feedback from the teams who'd use it, and iterate through successive versions until it's hardened, monitored, and running with matured quality.
• Identify gap areas in existing frameworks and tools, and iterate toward solutions that close them.

Skills

Automation framework design

Agentic tooling

Cross-team collaboration

Test automation mindset

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Playwright

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Git

Maven

SQL

Gatling

ArgoCD

Job description

Upgrade is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to architect and build test automation infrastructure. You will design and own automation services, deploy them to production, and collaborate with product teams to shape tooling that increases developer productivity.

The role emphasizes building agentic solutions, orchestrating multiple agents, and maturing testing capabilities across micro-services and Kubernetes environments. This is a fully remote US-based position.