Senior Test Developer; Automation

At Skills Wave, we’re building the skills that help organizations stay ahead ensuring their teams remain current, adaptable, and ready to drive innovation and long‑term success. Through high‑quality learning experiences and strategic education partnerships, we empower people to grow and organizations to thrive.

Our momentum is rooted in a founder who scaled his first company from a bedroom startup into a $500M publicly traded industry leader. Skills Wave is the next big wave of that success—an ambitious, high‑velocity spinoff built for rapid scale. Expectations are high, the pace is fast, and the opportunity to make an outsized impact is real. Learn more at

Ride the next wave of quality at Skills Wave as a Senior Test Developer (Automation), where you’ll help power high‑confidence releases and scalable automation across our platform. You’ll join a fast‑moving, collaborative product and engineering crew, partnering closely with developers to embed quality into every stage of the build — not as a gatekeeper, but as an enabler.

In this hands‑on individual contributor role, you’ll design and evolve modern test automation frameworks, shape our quality engineering practices, and make it easier for teams to write meaningful automated tests as part of their everyday workflow. You’ll bring deep technical judgment, curiosity, and craftsmanship to create reliable, scalable, and developer‑friendly test solutions that help us ship great software faster.

If you’re passionate about automation, love improving systems and patterns, and enjoy influencing how teams build with quality from the start this is your wave.

We are looking for the right person to join our team. This position offers a remote option along with a hybrid option if you are located in the Kitchener/Waterloo area and want to enjoy our amazing space at Catalyst Commons. We can’t wait to welcome exceptional individuals that will bring their skills and passion to our team!

• Building and supporting high‑quality, high‑performing, scalable, and secure software through robust automated testing
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining automated integration and end‑to‑end tests, with a focus on validating real‑world workflows and system behavior across our platforms. Our end‑to‑end test suite is currently built using Playwright, and you will help evolve and scale this capability over time
• Owning and evolving test automation frameworks and tooling to ensure they are intuitive, maintainable, and widely adopted by development teams
• Contributing as a key member of a cross‑functional agile development team including developers, designers, product managers, and a development manager
• Integrating automated integration and end‑to‑end test suites into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, reliable feedback and support continuous delivery
• Collaborating closely with developers to ensure code is testable and that automated testing fits naturally into the development workflow
• Identifying gaps in test coverage, anticipating risks, and proactively addressing quality issues before they reach production
• Investigating test failures and production issues, identifying root causes, and driving improvements to prevent recurrence
• Supporting released software as required by validating fixes, strengthening regression coverage, and continuously improving automation effectiveness

At Skills Wave, we use AI like a great surf tool in your kit, powerful when the conditions are right, but not something you force on every wave. There’s no AI mandate here. If it helps you paddle faster, read the break better, or ride cleaner — use it. If not, leave it on the beach.

What matters most is your curiosity and your willingness to explore new gear and new swells. Know what the tool is good at, where it can wipe out, and how to use it with judgment. Prior experience is awesome, but the real win is bringing a learner’s mindset and being ready to keep leveling up your toolkit as the tide changes.

• 6+ years of relevant experience in software testing or quality engineering, with…