Senior QA Automation Engineer

#Enter The Game

Activate is redefining how the world plays across Canada, US, and beyond into the global market. We’re a technology company that fuses a game, a workout, and a party into one unforgettable experience. We believe play should move people - physically and socially. Behind every room, you’ll need your reflexes, wits, and a team to beat the challenges - it’s easy to start, hard to beat.
Activate is experiencing significant expansion and are looking to grow our team with the addition of a Senior QA Automation Engineer. This is a full-time, permanent position. We are looking for this role to join our team on-site at our Winnipeg corporate office.
Visit  to see Activate in action. Follow @activate games on Tik Tok, Instagram, and Facebook to stay locked in.

Position Overview   Enter

The Role   The Senior QA Automation Engineer is responsible for elevating the reliability, speed, and coverage of quality assurance across Activate's game software and interactive platforms through advanced test automation, with a particular focus on agentic automation — AI-driven agents that can plan, execute, and adapt test coverage with minimal manual scripting. This role will design, build, and maintain automation frameworks that let autonomous or semi-autonomous testing agents explore game features, detect regressions, and validate player-facing experiences at a pace and scale beyond traditional scripted testing.
This role will partner closely with software developers, game designers, product owners, and the broader QA team to embed intelligent automation into the software development lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines, while mentoring other QA team members on automation best practices.
The

Duties and Responsibilities:

Quality Engineering, Automation, and AI     Define and evolve Activate’s Quality Engineering strategy across software, games, venue technology, APIs, services, and digital products, including a layered test architecture spanning unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and post-deployment validation.
Design, build, and maintain reusable automation frameworks, libraries, fixtures, and CI/CD templates, continually improving their reliability, speed, scalability, and maintainability.
Establish standards for test design, coding quality, evidence capture, and release readiness.
Apply AI-assisted and agentic techniques — such as test-scenario generation, risk-based test selection, exploratory testing, coverage-gap detection, and failure triage — where they measurably improve coverage, speed, or diagnostics.
Define guardrails for AI-assisted testing, including data access, privacy, human review, reproducibility, and versioning, and maintain deterministic release gates independent of probabilistic AI conclusions.
Product Testability     Partner with developers and architects to improve system testability through stable automation identifiers, structured logging, test APIs, and other testability hooks, and flag designs that make testing unnecessarily slow or fragile.
Ensure significant features include appropriate testability, observability, and automated coverage as part of the Definition of Done.
Test Environments and Data     Define and improve test environments that are representative, reproducible, and easy to reset, and build reusable, privacy-safe test-data factories for player, game, store, and operational scenarios.
Use mocks, stubs, simulators, or service virtualization where dependencies are unreliable or impractical.
CI/CD and Release Controls     Integrate automated validation into pull requests, builds, deployments, and release workflows, with execution tiers spanning developer checks through production synthetics.
Use change risk and historical defect data to guide test coverage decisions, and ensure failures include actionable evidence such as logs, traces, screenshots, and reproducible steps.
Define when failed tests should block a merge, require investigation, or trigger rollback, and support progressive delivery and canary validation.
Automation Reliability     Own the reliability and maintainability of shared automation, establishing thresholds for flaky tests and distinguishing product,…