Senior QA and Automation Developer

Taiv•Winnipeg, MB

2d•CA$80,000 - CA$130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Taiv is a fast-growing tech startup located in Winnipeg, Canada, that uses AI to make business TV more fun, engaging, profitable, and easier to manage, starting with bars and restaurants. Our proprietary tech uses computer vision to watch live TV and improve content with contextually-aware commercials, content, and games. It also automates manual AV tasks for venues to make bar management easier, standardized, and more profitable. The company is venture-capital backed and graduated from Y Combinator. We are looking for a Senior QA and Automation Developer to join our growing team because our engineering team has grown fast, and testing hasn’t kept pace. QA and test automation have always lived inside the dev team itself, and as we’ve scaled that’s started to break: regressions are reaching production more often, and every team tests things a little differently. This role will own testing across all of Taiv, including the box (firmware, software, and detection models), web apps, and backend. The individual will set the testing plan and policy for the entire engineering organization and will be hands-on building the automation to support it. This role reports to our CTO and works closely with our VP of Software and our Firmware lead.

Requirements

You’ve built a testing suite before, not maintained one someone else designed.
You know what it takes to stand up testing infrastructure from scratch and you’ve done it.
You’re fluent in Playwright and Maestro, or tools like them, and you can write test plans for both a brand-new feature and a five-year-old piece of legacy code.
You’ve tested across different kinds of software. TypeScript and React are familiar territory, and you’re comfortable testing Android apps too.
You think about testing at the systems level. You understand that testing firmware and embedded systems isn’t the same problem as testing a web app, and you can hold both in your head at once.
You can get other engineers to change how they work. Setting a standard is one thing, getting people to actually follow it is another, and you know how to do both.
5+ years of experience in QA and test automation, with real ownership of a testing suite at a previous company.
Hands-on experience with Playwright and Maestro, or comparable frameworks.
Experience testing TypeScript, React, and Android applications.
Experience writing testing plans and strategy for both new and existing features.

Responsibilities

Build the test suite, starting with one product area and building out a comprehensive automated test suite in the first few months, which will serve as the template for the rest of the organization.
Set the testing standard by defining how Taiv tests software, from what gets automated to what “done” means for a feature from a testing standpoint, and get every team bought in.
Cut down regressions; own the outcome, not just the process. If bugs are reaching production, that’s your problem to solve.
Test across the whole stack, from detection models and firmware on the box to TypeScript and React web apps, figuring out the right testing approach for each and building the automation to match.
Work directly with engineering leadership, partnering with our CTO, VP of Software, and Firmware lead to ensure the testing plan fits how each team actually builds.