Canopy provides a cloud-based practice management platform that helps accounting firms streamline client management, document handling, workflow, and billing.
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>QA Automation Tech Lead</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Canopy, South Jordan, UT</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About Us</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Canopy is a fast-growing SaaS company in South Jordan, Utah building simple, powerful software for accounting firms. We're on a mission to help accountants build an autonomous firm — giving them back the time and tools they need to focus on what matters most: their clients.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We believe the accounting industry deserves world-class software, and we're building exactly that. Our Practice Management Suite is purpose-built for firms that want to work smarter, grow faster, and deliver more value to the people they serve. We place a strong emphasis on delighting our customers, spotting and solving problems, and being good people along the way.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Click <a href="https://www.getcanopy.com/why-canopy">here</a> to see why our clients (and investors) love Canopy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Interested in learning more about Canopy & the industry? Check out our blog <a href="https://www.getcanopy.com/blog">here</a> where you can find great information on our product features, industry news, practice management, and more!</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The Opportunity</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We are seeking a QA Automation Tech Lead with a high-level engineering pedigree to spearhead the evolution of our quality infrastructure. In this pivotal role, you will serve as the technical authority for automation across the organization while acting as the QA Automation Engineer on our Platform Squad.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your mission is two-fold: building the foundational infrastructure that enables other squads to scale, and pioneering AI-driven tooling that empowers our manual QA engineers to transition into automation seamlessly. You won’t just be maintaining a framework; you will be architecting a self-service quality ecosystem.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This position is remote eligible for candidates who currently reside in Utah.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></h2> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strategic Leadership & Platform Engineering</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Architect & Innovate: Serve as the Lead IC for the Platform Squad, designing and scaling global automation infrastructure that other product squads consume.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AI Tooling Development: Build and deploy internal agentic AI tools and wrappers designed to lower the barrier to entry for manual QA engineers, enabling them to generate and maintain automated tests autonomously.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technical Mentorship: Provide high-level guidance and code reviews for QA engineers across the company, establishing "Golden Paths" for automation excellence.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Framework & API Engineering</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Next-Gen Frameworks: Overhaul and scale our Python/Pytest frameworks to support high-concurrency, multi-tenant environments and complex CI/CD integrations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Infrastructure as Code: Work closely with DevOps to ensure testing environments are ephemeral, scalable, and integrated into the deployment pipeline via GitHub Actions.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Advanced API Validation: Move beyond standard assertions to build deep-level API validation suites and maintain centralized Postman collections for cross-team use.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Agile & Data Strategy</span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Engineering for QA: Craft complex SQL scripts and data generation utilities to simulate production-grade data across our testing environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Observability: Leverage Datadog and other monitoring tools to implement "Shift-Right" testing strategies, using production telemetry to inform automation priorities.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Leadership Experience: 6+ years in QA Automation with at least 1-2 years in a Lead or Staff capacity, specifically influencing technical direction or managing large-scale projects.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Python. You should be comfortable building custom libraries, wrappers, and CLI tools from scratch.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">UI Automation Craftsmanship: Hands-on experience with modern UI testing frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium). You write stable, deterministic tests and treat maintainability and low flakiness as first-class engineering concerns.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AI/ML Enthusiast: Hands-on experience (or deep technical projects) involving LLM integration or agentic AI to solve engineering bottlenecks.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Database Depth: Strong ability to write complex SQL queries and understand relational database architecture.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Platform Mindset: Experience building infrastructure