About the role

  • Senior leader on the Quality Engineering team responsible for improving product quality while decreasing time-to-market
  • Lead and mentor junior developers and provide in-depth code reviews and technical analysis
  • Collaborate with immediate teams and peers to design complex solutions, peer review code, and suggest optimization
  • Develop and support test automation, execution environments and reporting tools
  • Write code that establishes and enhances test automation and design proof of concepts
  • Coordinate complex tasks with external teams & stakeholders
  • Lead a small group of 1-3 motivated software engineers
  • Provide end-user and developer training on automation tool sets
  • Contribute to and define Key Performance Indicators to measure project status and effectiveness
  • Provide strategic input on future initiatives with stakeholders and other engineers
  • Investigate and resolve test automation, tooling, or environment issues affecting services

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDET) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services
  • Proficient in object-oriented design
  • Expertise with one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Node/JavaScript
  • 4+ years of experience with test automation and unit testing frameworks
  • 3+ years of experience leading teams of 2 or more
  • Experience working with Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks
  • Experience in deriving and gathering quality KPI’s to give insight into product’s health and progress
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Highly motivated, self-starting individual
  • Preferred: Experience shipping a production Python, Flask, Django, React or Node.js application
  • Preferred: Experience in mobile and/or living room application development and testing
  • Preferred: Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
  • Preferred: Experience with test suite/case/run management tools (e.g., JIRA Xray, etc.)

Benefits

  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Other benefits (dependent on level and position offered)
  • Primarily on-site with occasional work from home (flexible work arrangement)

Job title

Lead Automation Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$159,500 - $213,900 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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