Senior QA Automation Engineer (Platform)

Upgrade

6d•Remote

About The Position

Our QA-Core team exists so every engineering team at Upgrade can test their software quickly and trust the result. We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer on the team to architect and build test automation infrastructure, tooling, and agentic solutions to increase engineering productivity. This is not a traditional product QA role - it’s a build role. You will work closely with our product teams to understand their automation requirements, design services from scratch, ship them to production clusters and own them. This is a fully remote position open to candidates who are based in Canada or the US.

Requirements

5-7+ years building production software, with demonstrated depth across test infrastructure, test frameworks, and developer tooling, and working knowledge of platform engineering.
Proven track record building agentic solutions and test automation frameworks from the ground up — designed, shipped, iterated on, and adopted as part of how other engineers work.
Fluency with agentic coding tools as part of your daily workflow: ability to orchestrate multiple agents to execute, review agent-generated PRs.
Hands-on experience with micro-services, Kubernetes and managing 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.