Upgrade Inc.
Senior QA Automation Developer (Platform)
Canada (Remote) · Senior
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About the role
- Our QA-Core team exists so every engineering team at Upgrade can test their software quickly and trust the result.
- This is a fully remote position open to candidates who are based in Canada.
- The base salary range for this position is between $150,000-$190,000 CAN.
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.
- 5-7+ years building production software, with demonstrated depth across test infrastructure, test frameworks, and developer tooling, and working knowledge of platform engineering.
- Work is performed indoors in a fast-paced environment that requires the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet established workflows, schedules, and service expectations.
- Employees regularly input, retrieve, and exchange information accurately using digital systems and applications to support operational and customer service objectives.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with micro-services, Kubernetes and managing deployment lifecycle
- Ability to take an ambiguous problem statement to a scoped, defensible solution independently.
Skills
- Our Core Technologies Include:
- Identify gap areas in existing frameworks and tools, and iterate toward solutions that close them.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this position is between $150,000-$190,000 CAN.
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Health & wellness initiatives
Company info
- Upgrade helps customers move in the right direction with affordable and responsible financial products.
- Since 2017, we've helped over 7.5 million customers access over $42 billion in consumer credit.
- We're looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products.
- 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.
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