Senior QA Automation Engineer | Upgrade | Remote (Brazil)

<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Upgrade is a fintech company that provides affordable and responsible credit, mobile banking, and payment products to everyday consumers. We were the fastest growing company in the Americas last year according to the Financial Times and Upgrade Card was the fastest growing credit card in America two years in a row. We have delivered over $31 billion in affordable and responsible credit to our 5M customers. The company is backed by some of the most prominent technology investors and was recently valued at $6.3B.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We have built an energizing, collaborative and inclusive culture where team members help each other, learn and innovate to move the company and its customers in the right direction, and own the outcome of their efforts.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” three years in a row, “Top Companies to work for in Arizona” and one of the &#8220;Best Engineering Department&#8221; awarded annually by Comparably. We&#8217;ve also received recognition for being a best company for Diversity, Women, Culture, and Veterans.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and delivering new and better products to join a team of 1600 talented and dedicated professionals. Come work with us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people&#8217;s lives.</em></p>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Role:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Upgrade is a US based company with numerous 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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Our Core Technologies Include:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Java, Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Maven, Git, Jenkins, ArgoCD, SQL, REST Assured, SumoLogic, Docker, Kubernetes, Gatling, Linux</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What You’ll Do:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Execute functional/performance tests by spinning up disposable environments on demand to deploy microservices with different versions and configurations, and customize database content</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Develop test automation at the pace of feature development utilizing our functional and performance test frameworks</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Customize, configure, patch services, and deploy infrastructure and code changes all the way through to production</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Analyze log files and troubleshoot production issues by automating and reproducing them in a non-production environment</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Plan, create, and implement strategies/solutions for feature validations and test automation</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What We Look For:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to develop test automation in Java using Selenium to utilize Integrated Development environments (IDE) such as IntelliJ or Eclipse</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in deploying services in various environments such as Kubernetes, using deployment tools like ArgoCD and Jenkins</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Capability to improve efficiency of existing test infrastructure using Docker, Selenium and headless browser executions</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Familiarity with log aggregators such as SumoLogic, Kibana, or Splunk, and app monitoring tools such as Honeycomb, or Grafana</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Passion for automating tests and delivering high quality features in a fast paced environment</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comfortable working in Agile methodology</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>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.</em></p>