Senior Quality Engineer
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
AboutUpshop:
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 50000 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 companys growth ensuring we attract develop and retain A Players who drive our mission forward.
OverviewoftheRole:
WearelookingforaSeniorQualityEngineerwhoownsqualityreliabilityandperformancethroughstrongautomationandwhousesAIasaforcemultipliernotasubstituteforjudgment.
You build and maintain end-to-end and API coverage contribute to test strategy and shift quality left with agents RAG and prompt engineering. You stay accountable for what those systems produce. You advocate for quality act before you are asked and challenge weak process thin coverage or this is how weve always done it when it puts the customer at risk. You adapt to a fast-paced engineering culture: changing priorities short cycles and delivery without lowering the quality bar.
KeyResponsibilities
- DesignbuildandmaintainE2Etests(CypressWebDriverIO)andAPItests(Karate)inJavaScript/TypeScript/.
- Picktherightlayer:proverulesanddatainAPItests;useUI/mobileonlywhenthatsurfaceistheproof.
- Runsuitesanalyzefailuresdrivedefectstocloseandkeeppipelinestrustworthy(flakesfailingjobsfollow-upuntildone).
- Shiftleft:reviewacceptancecriteriafortestabilityworkfromspecificationsandscenariosandmapeverycriteriontoAPIWeband/.
- and correct agent output. Stop when evidence is missing. Never claim AI work passed without pipeline proof and human review. Protect secrets and customer data in prompts and retrieval.
- Ownteamqualityoutcomes:coverageautomationstandardsPRgatesandreleasereadinessnotjustassignedtickets.
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- -plancoveragecommunicateriskearlyandkeepautomationandpipelinesusableunderdeliverypressure.
RequiredSkills
- 78yearsofexperienceinQualityEngineering(QE)orasanSDET.
- Hands-onCypressWebDriverIOKarate;strongJavaScript/.
- Experiencebuildingandmaintainingautomationframeworksandcoretestingpractices.
- PracticaluseofAIcodingagentswithpromptengineeringandretrieval-backed(RAG)workflows;judgmenttoacceptreviseorstopgeneratedwork.
- Shift-leftmindset:earlytestabilityrequirement-tracedautomationhumanaccountabilityforAI-assistedquality.
- Proactivequality-advocateposture:ownsoutcomesstepsoutsidethecomfortzoneandchallengesweakdefaults.
- Provenabilitytoadapttoafast-pacedengineeringcultureanddeliverqualityunderchangingpriorities.
- ExperienceworkinginAgile/Scrumenvironments.
- Stronganalysistroubleshootingandcross-teamcollaboration.
NicetoHave
- CI/CDintegrationofautomatedtests;performance/loadtools.
- Spec-drivenoragenticworkflows;evaluatingqualityofRAGorconversationalAIfeatures.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Upshop delivers total supermarket and grocery store operations by connecting Fresh, Center, eCommerce, and DSD department operations.