Senior QA Automation Engineer (Performance)

Company overview

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2008, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Founded in 2008, we now have 140 employees.

We're hiring another Senior QA Automation Engineer (Performance) to own test automation and release quality for our web and mobile products. This hire will build out our Playwright suite and get it running reliably in CI. Remote within Canada. The team meets in Toronto once a quarter, travel covered. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Day to day

• Create test plans and regression checklists for major releases.
• Verify bug fixes and sign off on releases.
• Integrate test suites into GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Build API test suites with Postman, REST Assured or pytest.
• Report on test coverage, escaped defects and release readiness.
• Load test with JMeter, k6 or Gatling and report on response times.
• Run exploratory testing on new features and document findings with clear repro steps.

Who you are

• Programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or Java for test code.
• Patience and persistence when chasing intermittent issues.
• Ability to write clear bug reports and test cases.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON and tools like Postman.
• Basic SQL for checking data in test environments.
• Working knowledge of CI pipelines and Git.

Perks and benefits

Rate: $113,000 to $146,000 per year

• Extended health and dental benefits.
• RRSP matching.
• Three weeks paid vacation to start.
• Flexible hours.
• Paid sick days.
• Life insurance.
• Annual bonus.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ironwoodland.