Senior QA Automation Engineer

Overview

Upgrade helps customers move in the right direction with affordable and responsible financial products. Since 2017, we’ve helped over 7 million customers access over $40 billion in consumer credit. With a relentless focus on improving our customers' financial well-being, we build products that put more money in their pocket and support their journey toward a better financial future. We’re backed by prominent technology investors and were valued at $6.3B.

We’re consistently recognized for our collaborative and inclusive culture. We were named one of the World’s Top Fintech Companies by CNBC, Best Places to Work by Built In, Best Places to Work by the San Francisco Business Times, America’s Greatest Workplaces by Newsweek, Best Startup Employer by Forbes, and Healthiest Employers by Phoenix Business Journal.

We’re looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products. Come join us and help build a better financial future for millions of people.

Upgrade is a US based company with numerous fully remote engineering team members across Brazil. Our QA team has end-to-end ownership to build a quality product. Through automation and functional testing, they validate a variety of products to offer our customers a seamless banking experience. As a QA Engineer, you will work directly with our product teams and will participate in application specification reviews and architectural design sessions by providing input from a quality standpoint. You will also identify testing strategies for various features and functionalities. Within your first year, you will develop an understanding of how to deliver high performing software at pace of development. You will work in an environment that promotes ownership at all levels including configuring and monitoring apps in production.

• Execute functional/performance tests by spinning up disposable environments on demand to deploy microservices with different versions and configurations, and customize database content
• Develop test automation at the pace of feature development utilizing our functional and performance test frameworks
• Customize, configure, patch services, and deploy infrastructure and code changes all the way through to production
• Analyze log files and troubleshoot production issues by automating and reproducing them in a non-production environment
• Plan, create, and implement strategies/solutions for feature validations and test automation

• Ability to develop test automation in Java using Selenium to utilize Integrated Development Environments (IDE) such as IntelliJ or Eclipse
• Experience in deploying services in various environments such as Kubernetes, using deployment tools like ArgoCD and Jenkins
• Familiarity with log aggregators such as SumoLogic, Kibana, or Splunk, and app monitoring tools such as Honeycomb or Grafana
• Experience writing SQL queries and working in a cloud-based environment (AWS)
• Passion for automating tests and delivering high quality features in a fast paced environment
• Comfortable working in Agile methodology

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Upgrade does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms, or any third parties. English is required for all positions, as it involves interacting with staff at Upgrade's offices worldwide.

Upgrade is dedicated to building a diverse team and an inclusive culture. We are asking candidates to voluntarily self-identify through demographic questions to help assess outreach and diversity representation goals. Your responses are stored in aggregate and will not be linked to your identity or your application. Participation is voluntary and will not affect your candidacy.