Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as Senior Automation Engineer, to help people succeed across the world.

From dropping your kids off at childcare, getting something at home repaired, going to the gym or a fitness studio, to picking up your dry cleaning — our software, payments, and commerce-enabling solutions help everyday life businesses to overcome obstacles and form great relationships with their customers.

You’ll join our Field Services team where we work with all types of businesses. Our product is essential to customers’ daily operations, supporting businesses—large and small—across the HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other industries with seamless solutions for customer management, scheduling, quoting, invoicing, payment and work tracking.

Job Description

Take a seat on the rocket ship and join us as a Senior Automation Engineer to help people succeed across the world. We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers, and doing what they love.

You'll work on our robust, cloud-hosted platform in Microsoft Azure, with a modern front-end built using Vue.js. As part of the FieldEge Saas Engineering team, you’ll contribute to the ongoing evolution of a scalable platform that powers everything from community centers and gyms to boutique wellness studios and national franchises.

Responsibilities

• Champion functional quality across teams by acting as the voice of QA, ensuring testing strategies align with business goals and user expectations.

• Design, document, and execute comprehensive test strategies and best practices, covering both manual and automated testing for web and mobile applications.

• Evaluate the ROI of automation and guide teams on when automation may be counterproductive, recommending improvements to functional testing approaches.

• Implement the TCOE Architect-approved reusable automation framework for regression and new functionality testing.

• Collaborate with product owners and developers to understand requirements and ensure test coverage for all functional scenarios.

• Conduct exploratory, smoke, sanity, regression, and user acceptance testing to ensure product quality.

• Recommend and implement solutions to reduce test execution time and optimize test maintenance.

• Help team members in automation frameworks, CI/CD processes, and manual testing methodologies.

• Ensure automation frameworks support scalability, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility compliance.

• Ensure scalability and maintainability of test suites, including regular updates and refactoring.

• Review and improve existing automation practices and guide teams on when to automate vs. when to test manually.

• Support delivery teams in setting up automation processes, PR reviews, and coding practices.

• Participate in defect triage meetings, root cause analysis, and provide detailed bug reports.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, with a balanced mix of manual/functional and automation testing.

• At least 5+ years of experience in Web Automation, including framework design and implementation.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across product, development, and QA teams.

• Strong experience in manual testing, including test case design, exploratory testing, regression, smoke, and user acceptance testing.

• Proficiency in C# for automation scripting.

• Experience in automated web testing using tools like Selenium, and familiarity with modern frameworks.

• Develop automated tests for modern front-end applications built in modern javascript frameworks.

• Solid understanding of functional testing methodologies, test planning, and test strategy creation.

• Experience in API testing using tools like Postman, including validation of request/response, headers, and status codes.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze requirements and translate them into effective test cases for both manual and automated execution.

• Experience with cross-browser testing, usability, and accessibility testing.

• Proficiency in using cloud-based platforms like BrowserStack or LambdaTest for both manual and automated testing.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

• Experience in mobile application testing, covering both functional and non-functional aspects.

• Strong understanding of testing types: Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT, Smoke, and Release Management.

Bonus Points

• Experience in mobile automation testing using Appium, including framework setup and maintenance

• Hands-on testing across Android and iOS platforms using emulators, simulators, and real devices

• Familiarity with automated mobile test frameworks and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines

• Experience testing modern front-end applications built with frameworks such as Vue.js, React, or Angular, with a strong focus on validating responsive UI designs across various devices and screen sizes

• Exposure to Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE) or enterprise QA practices.

Additional Information

Life at Xplor

As an Xplorer, you’ll be part of a global network of talented colleagues who support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits:

• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, plus regular career and growth conversations with your leader, as part of Xplor GPS
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

The average annual base salary pay range for this role is between $100,000 - $120,000 CAD

Location:

You can work fully remote in this position, provided you have eligible working rights, and you are in a time zone with enough overlap to collaborate with your team.

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected].

More about us

We are the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing “everyday life” verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payment processing platform. With operations in North America, Australasia, Asia, Europe, and the UK, we serve over 106,000 customers that processed over $38 billion in payments across 20 markets in 2024.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorized to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards only. Please don't send your application via email.

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers.

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/recruitment-faqs.

EEO and Artificial Intelligence

Please note that we do not exclusively rely on artificial intelligence (AI) when making hiring, promotion or any other employment decisions. We don’t have any AI tools in place that are capable of making these kinds of hiring decisions for us.

Xplor is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We're dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.

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