Remote Senior QA Engineer: AI-Driven Test Automation

CSC Generation; United States; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Backcountry is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to build AI-accelerated test automation for web, API, and mobile. You will design scalable test suites with Playwright, integrate them into GitHub Actions, and own the quality gates that validate every deploy.

You will balance automated and exploratory testing, mentor teammates, and help define risk-based strategies across production-like environments, partnering with engineering to ship reliable software for web, mobile, and API experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing.
• 3+ years building and maintaining test automation in CI/CD.
• Experience with Playwright for web and API E2E automation; Cypress or Selenium a plus.
• Strong programming in TS/JS or Python; production-grade test code.
• Hands-on use of AI coding tools to write and debug tests.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable automation suites across web, API, and mobile.
• Use AI tools to generate test plans and data from requirements.
• Own the correctness of the test suite and reduce flaky tests.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Collaborate with engineers to embed tests and improve SDLC quality.
• Perform focused exploratory testing on new features and complex flows.

Skills

QA experience

CI/CD automation

Programming in TS/JS or Python

AI-assisted testing tools

Exploratory testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

JMeter

k6

GitHub Actions

TestRail

Jira

AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor)

Job description

Backcountry is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to build AI-accelerated test automation for web, API, and mobile. You will design scalable test suites with Playwright, integrate them into GitHub Actions, and own the quality gates that validate every deploy.

You will balance automated and exploratory testing, mentor teammates, and help define risk-based strategies across production-like environments, partnering with engineering to ship reliable software for web, mobile, and API experiences.