🌟 Ready to help reshape a $26B industry and build the future of branded merch?

commonsku is revolutionizing the promotional products industry. Our platform empowers branded merch distributors to work smarter — managing projects, building quotes, placing orders, and collaborating with clients and suppliers seamlessly through the power of the Connected Workflow.

We’re a remote-first, community-driven team obsessed with elevating our customers, their clients, and the broader industry. Our values – Community First, Ten Steps Ahead, Fast Forward, and Delightful Work – guide us. We believe you can innovate, push forward, and do more, while also sharing a laugh, supporting your colleagues, and having a life outside of work. 

If you’re energized by ambitious work, creative collaboration, and helping to build something great, you’ll want to keep reading. 

🚀 About the Role: Senior QA Automation Engineer

We’re growing — and we’re hiring a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our Engineering Team! In this role, you’ll help us increase confidence and speed in how we deliver software by building scalable, reliable test automation across multiple teams.

You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, contribute to a high-trust environment, and play a direct role in ensuring regressions are caught early and quality is built into every stage of delivery — not bolted on at the end.

💡 About You

You’re not just looking for a job — you’re looking for a place to do your best work. You bring:

• A community mindset — You see customers as partners and coworkers as collaborators. You lift others up, always follow through on your commitments,  and thrive in a team that does the same. (Community First)

• Momentum and ownership — You act with optimism, take initiative, and turn ideas into results. You move fast and bring others with you. (Fast Forward)

• Vision and boldness — You don’t just react — you anticipate. You think big, challenge the status quo, and push the work (and the industry) forward. (Ten Steps Ahead)

• Joy in the craft — You care deeply about what you build and how it makes people feel. You bring thoughtfulness, transparency, and a sparkling sense of humour to the table. (Delightful Work)

⚙️ About our Technology

Guided by our value of being Ten Steps Ahead, we are modernizing our technology to support a rapidly scaling business and user base.

Our core foundation is built on PHP, Python, and React, backed by MySQL (Aurora) on AWS, with Snowflake powering our data warehouse. We are actively evolving this stack for the future: migrating our PHP codebase to the Symfony framework and transitioning our infrastructure to a fully containerized architecture using ECS Fargate and Docker.

Innovation remains central to our roadmap. We are pushing the boundaries of the industry by building AI features powered by OpenAI, Gemini, and advanced generative image APIs.

🛠️ What You’ll Do

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Design and implement a scalable automated testing strategy for integration and end-to-end testing

• Identify gaps in automated coverage and propose solutions aligned with engineering priorities

• Write automation in the same languages and frameworks used by product engineers, ensuring it’s first-class and maintainable

• Partner with engineering teams to ensure automation enables faster, more predictable delivery

• Focus automation efforts on high-risk, high-impact areas

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to provide fast, reliable feedback

• Investigate and reduce test flakiness, long runtimes, and low-signal failures

• Strengthen pre-release validation to help prevent regressions

• Support test data setup and environment management for reliable testing

• Use defects and failures as learning opportunities to improve automation patterns

• Communicate clearly about test coverage, risks, and limitations

• Document automation tools, patterns, and learnings so others can adopt and extend them

• Collaborate across multiple teams, balancing priorities while providing guidance on quality practices

🔍 What You Bring

Some of the qualities that help you thrive in this role:

• 5+ years of professional experience in QA automation or software engineering with a quality focus

• Strong ability to write production-quality code in modern engineering stacks

• Experience building or extending test automation frameworks

• Hands-on experience with tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar

• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and test reliability concerns

• Solid understanding of modern software delivery practices

• Ability to work effectively across teams with different needs and constraints

• Clear communicator with a pragmatic, improvement-oriented mindset

Bonus: Experience leading or scaling an automation initiative in a previous role.

💰 Compensation & Perks

We believe in fair, transparent compensation. Starting salary for this role is $110,000 - $125,000 CAD, depending on previous experience and skillset, plus a 5% annual bonus opportunity based on company performance.

New hires are expected to come in at the midpoint of this range. However, if this role sounds perfect for you and your expectations are outside of this range, we encourage you to apply and let us know in your application about your ideal package. If we agree that it’s a good fit, we will have open discussion around what’s possible.

Plus:

• Remote-first culture (with plenty of excellent in-person experiences sprinkled in)

• Company-wide closure between December 25th and January 1st

• Health and dental benefits, including a $1,000 healthcare spending account

• RRSP/TFSA contributions up to $3,000 a year (no employee contribution required!)

• Twice-yearly company wide summits (we call it HQ and you’ll love it)

• A delightful team of smart people who are good at what they do

🌎 Location

This role is open to candidates eligible to work in Canada, with the exception of Quebec (we’re not set up to operate there yet — désolé!).

We’re remote-first, but if you’re based in Toronto, even better. That’s where we were founded and where we maintain our HQ today! 

🌱 A Bit More About Us

commonsku supports hundreds of promotional products distributors and suppliers with technology that drive efficiency, growth, and connection. Our skummunity (commonsku + community = skummunity, get it?) is powered by events, education, and shared knowledge and is core to who we are.

We’ve grown by being “for promo by promo” and now, we’re scaling our impact to elevating an entire industry. We’d love your help doing it.

🤖 A Note About AI

We use AI every day at commonsku to be faster and better. If you use AI tools to help you draft your resume or cover letter, that’s totally fine — just make sure what you submit reflects you. We want to hear your authentic voice, not ChatGPT’s.

📬 How to Apply

If this role feels like a fit, apply now at https://commonsku.com/careers!

We try our level best to review and respond to every application we receive. So, once you’ve applied, wait to hear from a member of our People team with an update. If it looks like a good fit, expect a phone interview as the first step. 

By the way, you don’t need to meet 100% of the requirements — we value potential, learning, and diversity of thought. Tell us why you're excited, and let’s chat.

❤️ commonsku is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to building a diverse team that reflects the skummunity we serve. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities.