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Its unified platform simplifies and enhances associate tasks, promoting smarter and more interconnected operations across Fresh, Center, DSD, and eCommerce departments. With over 450+ retailers and 50,000+ stores relying on its mission-critical operations platform globally, customers have witnessed substantial enhancements in sales, shrinkage reduction, food safety, and sustainability throughout their stores.\nAt Upshop, we believe that great businesses are built by great people. Our People function is at the heart of our company’s growth, ensuring we attract, develop, and retain A Players who drive our mission forward.\nOverview of the Role: \nWe are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who owns quality, reliability, and performance through strong automation-and who uses AI as a force multiplier, not a substitute for judgment.\nYou build and maintain end-to-end and API coverage, contribute to test strategy, and shift quality left with agents, RAG, and prompt engineering. You stay accountable for what those systems produce. You advocate for quality, act before you are asked, and challenge weak process, thin coverage, or “this is how we’ve always done it” when it puts the customer at risk. You adapt to a fast-paced engineering culture: changing priorities, short cycles, and delivery without lowering the quality bar.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain E2E tests (Cypress, WebDriverIO) and API tests (Karate) in JavaScript/TypeScript / Node.js.\nPick the right layer: prove rules and data in API tests; use UI/mobile only when that surface is the proof.\nRun suites, analyze failures, drive defects to close, and keep pipelines trustworthy (flakes, failing jobs, follow-up until done).\nShift left: review acceptance criteria for testability, work from specifications and scenarios, and map every criterion to API, Web, and/or Mobile-or mark it not applicable with evidence. Do not invent tests from a ticket title.\nKeep tests requirement-traced from design through automation. CI/release results are the source of truth for pass/fail.\nUse AI agents to design cases, implement automation, and raise reviewable PRs that extend existing frameworks. Apply prompt engineering and RAG so output is grounded in specifications, existing tests, and standards-not guessed.\nReview and correct agent output. Stop when evidence is missing. Never claim AI work passed without pipeline proof and human review. Protect secrets and customer data in prompts and retrieval.\nOwn team quality outcomes: coverage, automation standards, PR gates, and release readiness-not just assigned tickets.\nAdvocate for quality in planning, design, and reviews. Speak up on risk, gaps, and untestable stories. Question the status quo and propose a better path.\nStay effective when scope, priorities, or timelines move. 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