Senior QA Automation Engineer (Platform)

The role

You will architect and build test automation infrastructure, tooling, and agentic solutions. You will design services from scratch, deploy them to production clusters, and own them to increase engineering productivity.

What you will do

• 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.
• Build demos, gather feedback, and iterate through successive versions until hardened and monitored.
• Identify gap areas in existing frameworks and tools, and iterate toward solutions.

Required qualifications

• 5-7+ years building production software.
• Demonstrated depth across test infrastructure, test frameworks, and developer tooling.
• Working knowledge of platform engineering.
• Proven track record building agentic solutions and test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Fluency with agentic coding tools to orchestrate multiple agents and 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock option plan
• Paid coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Paid parental leave
• Health & wellness initiatives

About the company

Upgrade helps customers move in the right direction with affordable and responsible financial products. Since 2017, they have helped over 7.5 million customers access over $42 billion in consumer credit.