- We’re looking for a QA Automation Engineer who is passionate about software quality and automation to help ensure our products are reliable, scalable, and deliver an exceptional customer experience

- Today, our automated test coverage is unit tests and some integration testing — we have no systematic automated coverage of end-to-end user flows

- That’s the gap this role exists to close

- You’ll design and build our automated E2E testing practice from the ground up, working closely with Product and Engineering to make sure we stop shipping regressions as we scale

- You’ll have real latitude here: this isn’t a role where testing requirements arrive fully formed

- Product can tell you what the product needs to do; figuring out how we verify it actually does that reliably is yours to define

- Decisions live as close to the work as possible — you’ll own how testing gets built, not just execute a checklist someone else wrote

- We’re kind, not nice — we say the hard thing early, in a way that respects the person hearing it. Feedback is specific and timely, not saved for a review cycle

- We ship in small increments and treat real usage as the fastest way to learn what’s working

- We hold strong opinions loosely — bring conviction, stay open to being wrong

- Guide Product Managers in translating use cases into testable requirements and edge cases — PMs bring the “what,” you bring the “how do we know it actually works.”

- Own the definition of test strategy and testing standards, and design our automated E2E / user-flow testing approach from scratch

- Develop and execute automated functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites

- Implement the automated portions of the testing plans you define

- Mentor and train engineers on writing,



maintaining, and extending automated tests — part of this role’s mandate is building testing capability across the team, not just within QA

- Perform manual/exploratory testing where automation isn’t yet in place

- Identify, document, and track defects, working with engineering to drive timely resolution

- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines

- Monitor test execution, analyze failures, and continuously improve coverage and reliability

Benefits

- Remote, hybrid, or in-office working options

- Health advantages starting day 1

- Learning & development opportunities- Experience designing an automated testing practice from scratch — not just extending one that already exists

- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar)

- Experience mentoring or upskilling other engineers in testing practices

- 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, including 3+ years focused on test automation

- Experience testing REST APIs (Postman or similar)

- Experience in testing web applications, APIs, mobile apps and backend services

- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile practices

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; excellent communication

- Comfort partnering with Product Managers who rely on you to help surface testing needs and edge cases

- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript; Ruby experience is a plus given our Rails services

- Experience with EV charging, OCPP, or similar device-communication protocols

- Experience with IoT, connected devices, or hardware-interfacing software — this is the environment you’d be working in day to day, though not a requirement

- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP

- Performance or load testing experience

📌 QA Automation Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 SWTCH
📍 Toronto