QA Engineer

About Upshop :

Upshop is the foremost provider of a SaaS platform designed to streamline forecasting, ordering, production, and inventory optimization processes for food retailers. Its unified platform simplifies and enhances associate tasks, promoting smarter and more interconnected operations across Fresh, Center, DSD, and eCommerce departments. With over 450+ retailers and 50,000+ stores relying on its mission-critical operations platform globally, customers have witnessed substantial enhancements in sales, shrinkage reduction, food safety, and sustainability throughout their stores.

At Upshop, we believe that great businesses are built by great people. Our People function is at the heart of our company’s growth, ensuring we attract, develop, and retain A Players who drive our mission forward.

Overview of the Role:We are looking for aQA Automation Engineerto help ensure the quality, reliability, and performance of our applications through robust automated testing. This role will play a key part in building and maintaining end-to-end and API test coverage while contributing to overall test strategy and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintainend-to-end automated testsusing tools such asCypressandWebDriverIO.
• Implement and maintainAPI automation testsusingKarate.
• Write and maintain automated test scripts usingJavaScript/TypeScriptinNode.js–based environments.
• Execute automated test suites, analyze results, identify defects, and work closely with engineering teams to drive resolution.
• Contribute totest strategy, planning, and best practicesfor automation, regression, and performance testing.
• Continuously improve test coverage, reliability, and execution efficiency.
• Participate in code reviews and promote quality standards across the development lifecycle.

end-to-end automated tests Cypress WebDriverIO

API automation tests Karate

JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js–based environments

Execute automated test suites, analyze results, identify defects, and work closely with engineering teams to drive resolution.

test strategy, planning, and best practices

Continuously improve test coverage, reliability, and execution efficiency.

Participate in code reviews and promote quality standards across the development lifecycle.

Required Skills & Experience

• Hands-on experience withCypress,WebDriverIO, andKaratetesting tools.
• Strong proficiency inJavaScript/TypeScriptandNode.js–based frameworks.
• Experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Solid understanding of software testing concepts, methodologies, and best practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Cypress WebDriverIO Karate

JavaScript/TypeScript Node.js–based frameworks

Experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks.

Solid understanding of software testing concepts, methodologies, and best practices.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build processes.
• Exposure to performance or load testing tools.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build processes.

Exposure to performance or load testing tools.

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Compensation: $93,000k-$140,000k/year CAD