The Role
The role focuses on enhancing software quality through automation, defining test plans, executing tests, and improving feedback mechanisms while collaborating with stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In
**We welcome all people based in Toronto, ON to apply. This job is a hybrid role from this location. **
The Software Quality Developer in Test role exists to accelerate delivery and improve product reliability by embedding quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle. This position emphasizes automation, continuous integration, proactive test strategy, and the use of AI-powered testing approaches to accelerate feedback and reduce manual effort. The role ensures that quality risks are addressed early ("shift-left") and that test suites provide fast, reliable feedback. The role directly impacts customer satisfaction, delivery velocity, and the overall health of Perceptyx’s product ecosystem.
Things You'll Do:
Work Experience: 3-5 years
We are a team built on purpose, not perfection.
The game is changing, and we're writing the new playbook. Our goals are ambitious, and we know that building the future requires diverse perspectives and skills. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply.
We're looking for people who are accountable, customer-centric, and innovative. We believe that talent thrives when we empower leaders to grow and evolve. So, apply anyway. You might be just the right person for this role or another opportunity on our team
Benefits:
We Care About The Whole Person 🫶
Perceptyx Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:
Perceptyx celebrates diversity and an inclusive environment. We focus on providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Perceptyx’s policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, knowledge, merit, and business needs.
The Software Quality Developer in Test role exists to accelerate delivery and improve product reliability by embedding quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle. This position emphasizes automation, continuous integration, proactive test strategy, and the use of AI-powered testing approaches to accelerate feedback and reduce manual effort. The role ensures that quality risks are addressed early ("shift-left") and that test suites provide fast, reliable feedback. The role directly impacts customer satisfaction, delivery velocity, and the overall health of Perceptyx’s product ecosystem.
Things You'll Do:
- Define high level test plans, create test cases and execute them for functional, integration, system and regression testing, based on requirements and user stories
- Consistently contribute high-quality automated tests tied to clear business logic and acceptance criteria, ensuring they reflect real user value
- Write modular, reusable, and reliable tests that minimize false positives and provide fast, trustworthy feedback loops
- Take ownership of a test suite and quality dimension, maintaining and improving it as a long-term product asset
- Identify coverage gaps and implement follow-ups to close them
- Reduce and proactively prevent test flakiness; monitor test runtime, escaped defects, and failure rates to improve effectiveness
- Apply testing best practices and architecture in real-world scenarios, balancing automation vs. manual testing based on risk and impact
- Participate in sprint planning and grooming by raising quality risks, edge cases, and automation needs early in the cycle
- Ensure automation supports CI/CD and continuous delivery by embedding tests into the pipeline and monitoring execution results
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to champion team-wide ownership of product quality
- Share and maintain dashboards, metrics, and insights to make product quality visible and actionable, including AI-enhanced dashboards for predictive risk analysis
- Use AI-based tools to generate, optimize, and maintain test cases, reducing duplication and improving coverage.
- Support exploratory testing efforts when automation is not feasible
- Contribute to technical documentation and playbooks for test automation best practices
- Working understanding of shift-left testing practices and Agile/DevOps environments
- Solid grasp of the testing pyramid and automation design patterns (unit, integration, API, UI/E2E)
- Proficiency with test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Jest, JUnit, Pytest)
- Skilled at writing automated API tests (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and UI/E2E tests integrated with CI/CD
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go)
- Familiarity with mocking, stubbing, and test data management strategies
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI) and pipeline monitoring
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience monitoring and analyzing automation metrics (flakiness, runtime, coverage, escaped defects)
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and root cause analysis skills
- Strong written and verbal communication with ability to coach peers on quality best practices
Work Experience: 3-5 years
We are a team built on purpose, not perfection.
The game is changing, and we're writing the new playbook. Our goals are ambitious, and we know that building the future requires diverse perspectives and skills. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply.
We're looking for people who are accountable, customer-centric, and innovative. We believe that talent thrives when we empower leaders to grow and evolve. So, apply anyway. You might be just the right person for this role or another opportunity on our team
Benefits:
We Care About The Whole Person 🫶
- Healthy medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Generous Maternity, Paternity, and Adopter leave benefits with flexibility on when you use this benefit
- Compassionate Care Program with paid time off to care for family members
- Generous Bereavement Leave that also supports Pet Parents
- Canadian employees contribute to a pension plan. Perceptyx will provide an employer match for the pension.
- As hard as we work, we also know how essential it is to take time away to rest and recharge. We offer flexible paid vacation with the expectation that every team member enjoys at least 10 business days per calendar year.
- 15 paid holidays per calendar year.
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Perceptyx Equal Employment Opportunity Policy:
Perceptyx celebrates diversity and an inclusive environment. We focus on providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Perceptyx’s policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, knowledge, merit, and business needs.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Cypress
Docker
GCP
Go
Java
JavaScript
Jest
Junit
Kubernetes
Playwright
Pytest
Python
Selenium
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
Perceptyx combines employee surveys and people analytics in a way that not only helps you see more of what’s going on in your organization, but also helps you see how to drive the organization forward. Too many surveys only focus on measurement, with overly prescriptive models that don’t offer a fresh perspective on the challenges facing your business. And they rarely connect the dots between the employee experience and business outcomes, making it difficult to know which actions will have the greatest impact. With a solution fully tailored to your specific organizational needs, Perceptyx makes it possible for organizations to see more clearly, see the bigger picture, and see the next steps. It’s why nearly one-third of the Fortune 100 already rely on Perceptyx and why 95% of the organizations that come to us stay with us.
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