Senior Quality Engineer

🌎 Location: Remote - UK & Europe 

⬆ Reporting Into:  Quality Engineering Manager

 

About Ceros

At Ceros, we are artists and technologists, and our dual soul is our unique strength. We value and ignite creativity at every level, reimagining Ceros to lead in this new era. As we embark on the next chapter in our mission to unlock creativity, Ceros is not just evolving, but leading the charge in an AI-driven world, becoming the world’s premier provider of AI-powered creative solutions for the enterprise sector.

Our growing suite of cloud-based tools is specifically designed to empower professional creators, enabling them to push beyond their design boundaries and transform the way they collaborate with their teams.

Today, our products are powering some of the most engaging experiences on the web. In 2021 alone, interactive content created with Ceros Studio — from landing pages and pitch decks to interactive social media — were viewed more than half a billion times, and over 3 million comments have been added to digital content using MarkUp, our visual collaboration tool.

Working at Ceros means making an impact at scale. Our products and services are beloved by over 500,000 users and leveraged by leading brands including Mashable, Bloomberg, Red Bull, and Pinterest. And we're building something even bigger and better: the creative operating system of the future, viewed through an AI-first lens.

Ceros is backed and well-funded by top-tier investors including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

We are remote-first forever with a 4½ day workweek that finishes every Friday at 1pm.

 

The Role

Designing and building the Ceros platform is no easy task. We require the best-of-the-best Software Engineers, Designers, and Quality Engineers, ready to bring the functionality of desktop software to the web, often pushing web browsers to the limits of what’s currently possible.

As part of the Ceros product team, you’ll be working with a small, cross-functional group of the most talented people you’ve ever worked with. We hire only passionate and creative people with a proven and unquestionable ability to execute, and every member of the team is equally responsible for moving the product forward. We find a way.

We have a very dynamic company culture that collaborates daily. We care deeply about the user experience, and we debate passionately about our ideas. When you work at Ceros, you check your ego at the door, and you aren’t afraid to be honest, especially to yourself. We take our jobs seriously but ourselves not so much -- whether it’s cracking jokes in the chat room or poking fun at the CEO’s atrocious spelling. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Cares deeply about our customers’ experience.
• Works well embedded on a cross-functional team.
• Displays expertise in a programming language (ideally TypeScript or JavaScript) and has experience in at least one other.
• Leads the development of the next iteration of our test automation frameworks.
• Creates and prioritizes a backlog for framework tech-debt and enhancements.
• Leads automation-focused technical training sessions.
• Creates and executes manual and automated tests (unit, API, end-to-end)
• Sets and enforces automation best practices across teams.
• Leads code reviews and pair programming sessions.
• Researches framework enhancements and prototypes solutions to gauge their usefulness.
• Actively mentors teammates.

Practical stuff we anticipate you having

• 5+ years experience manually testing with an agile software team
• 5+ years experience writing automated tests
• Expert in TypeScript, JavaScript or other moder object oriented language
• Comfortable with the linux command line 
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tooling
• Understanding of the different types of software testing
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Nice to have

• Load testing web applications
• Experience or a strong interest in AI-related tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other cutting-edge AI applications.
• Performance testing javascript based applications in the browser
• Web application security
• Experience testing a visual design application of some kind 

What we’re looking for from the heart

• Passion, enthusiasm, energy, humor, and the ability to convey these through video, Slack, and email communications
• Willingness to learn and adapt
• Curiosity; you seek out a wide breadth of information, feedback an