QA Automation Engineer at CSC Generation

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Retail, E-commerceIndustries

Requirements

  • Automation engineering depth: Playwright (preferred) or Selenium/WebDriver; pytest/pytest-bdd or Robot/Behave; strong API testing in Python and TypeScript/Jest; scalable frameworks (fixtures, parallelism, reliable test data)
  • AI for QA (multi-provider): Experienced in using LLMs (OpenAI/Anthropic/Llama/Titan/Bedrock) to generate tests, data, mocks, and spec-to-oracle pipelines; build small RAG utilities over S3/Git repos; manage prompts/guardrails and secrets responsibly
  • Embeddings & intelligence: Store/search embeddings (e.g., OpenSearch, pgvector) for test-impact analysis and failure clustering; enable agentic flows that post automatic PR comments with defect summaries and likely fixes
  • Service-level quality: Contract testing (OpenAPI/PACT), service virtualization/mocking, schema validation, and behaviors like idempotency/retry
  • Integration & data validation: Confident across message/event systems, APIs, databases and object stores; ensure systems-integration data integrity (reconciliation, idempotency, SLAs)
  • Performance & resiliency: Workload modeling, Browser DevTools Protocol, synthetic monitoring, baseline/regression detection

Responsibilities

  • Drive the quality strategy for key products—set guardrails, SLAs/SLOs, and release criteria tied to business outcomes
  • Engineer AI in QA: Use OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock (Claude, Llama, Titan), and more to generate tests/data/mocks from tickets/PRs/OpenAPI specs
  • Use AI for test-impact analysis (embeddings) and failure clustering to prioritize execution and speed up root-cause analysis
  • Build lightweight RAG helpers over specs/ADRs/runbooks (docs in S3/Git repos) so tests and oracles stay in sync
  • Run agentic exploratory testers that autonomously traverse critical e-commerce journeys, capture evidence (screens, HAR, traces), and open context-rich issues
  • Build and maintain modern automations for web, API, mobile, and data workflows using Playwright/Selenium, Python, and TypeScript that is clean, modular, and CI-friendly
  • Orchestrate end-to-end test pipelines (e.g., n8n, AWS Step Functions, GitHub Actions) for data prep, triggers, approvals, and Slack/Jira updates
  • Make QA self-serve: deliver reusable CLIs/SDKs, templates, and docs so engineers and analysts can run targeted checks on demand
  • Instrument deep observability and traceability—correlate runs with OpenTelemetry traces/logs/metrics and connect evidence to platforms like Datadog and Grafana
  • Design and run performance and resiliency work (realistic load models, traffic replay, baseline/regression detection, targeted failure/latency injection) with tools like k6 or Locust
  • Implement “shift-left” and “shift-right” practices: PR gates, contract tests, feature-flag/canary verification, and production synthetics tied to error budgets
  • Validate real customer journeys across internal and third-party systems (catalog, search, inventory, fulfillment, marketing)—not just UI happy paths

Skills

Playwright
Selenium
Python
TypeScript
OpenAI
Amazon Bedrock
n8n
AWS Step Functions
GitHub Actions
Jira
Slack

CSC Generation

Acquires and revitalizes struggling retail brands

About CSC Generation

CSC Generation specializes in acquiring and revitalizing struggling retail brands to make them profitable. The company identifies underperforming brands with potential and integrates them into its operating platform, which includes technology, skilled personnel, and efficient processes. This approach has allowed CSC Generation to successfully transform several well-known brands, such as DirectBuy and Sur La Table, into profitable ventures. The company generates revenue through the sales of products from its portfolio, which features over 325,000 items and attracts around 10 million monthly page views. Unlike many competitors, CSC Generation focuses on "unsexy" opportunities—brands that others might overlook but have significant turnaround potential. The goal of CSC Generation is to drive growth and profitability for the brands it acquires, ultimately enhancing the customer experience and increasing sales.

Merrillville, IndianaHeadquarters
2016Year Founded
$107.6MTotal Funding
SERIES_ECompany Stage
Consumer Software, Consumer GoodsIndustries
51-200Employees

Risks

Increased competition may lead to higher acquisition costs for CSC Generation.
Operational challenges in integrating new brands like Backcountry could affect performance.
Economic downturns could reduce consumer spending, impacting CSC's profitability.

Differentiation

CSC Generation specializes in acquiring and revitalizing struggling retail brands.
The company integrates brands into its platform to drive growth and profitability.
CSC Generation identifies 'unsexy' opportunities with significant potential for turnaround.

Upsides

CSC Generation's acquisition of Backcountry expands its consumer-centric brand portfolio.
The rise of AI-driven personalization can enhance CSC's customer engagement and conversion rates.
Direct-to-consumer models offer CSC increased profitability by cutting out intermediaries.

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