Senior QA Automation Engineer (Platform)

About the Role:

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 the US.

Our Core Technologies Include:

Java, Python, Kubernetes, Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestNG, Maven, Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD, SQL, Grafana, SumoLogic, Docker, Gatling, Claude Code, MCP server

What You’ll 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.
• 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.

What We Look For:

• 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.

What We Offer You:

• 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