Senior Quality Engineer: AI-Driven Automation & E2E Testing

Upshop; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Upshop in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Quality Engineer who owns quality, reliability, and performance through strong automation and AI-driven testing.

You will build and maintain end-to-end and API coverage, shape test strategy, and push quality left with agents, RAG, and prompt engineering. You’ll ensure the customer impact is minimized by rigorous, evidence-based testing in a fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• 7–8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering (QE) or as an SDET.
• Hands-on Cypress, WebDriverIO, Karate; strong JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience building and maintaining automation frameworks and core testing practices.
• Practical use of AI coding agents with prompt engineering and RAG workflows.
• Shift-left mindset: early testability and requirement-traced automation.
• Proactive, quality-advocate posture and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain E2E tests (Cypress, WebDriverIO) and API tests (Karate) in JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js.
• Select appropriate test layers; API rules/data first; UI/mobile only when necessary.
• Run test suites, analyze failures, drive defects to closure, keep pipelines trustworthy.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Cypress/WebDriverIO/Karate

JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.js

Automation frameworks

AI coding agents/RAG/prompt eng

Shift-left quality

Agile/Scrum

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Cypress

WebDriverIO

Karate

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

Upshop in Austin, TX, seeks a Senior Quality Engineer who owns quality, reliability, and performance through strong automation and AI-driven testing.

You will build and maintain end-to-end and API coverage, shape test strategy, and push quality left with agents, RAG, and prompt engineering. You’ll ensure the customer impact is minimized by rigorous, evidence-based testing in a fast-paced team.