Senior Quality Engineer

About the Role<br/>Behind every great software company is the team building it. We are an engineering team of multicultural, highly collaborative, fully distributed, humble learners. We pride ourselves on building best-in-class products powered by innovative technologies.<br/>A CaptivateIQ QE is being part of the Reliability, Infrastructure and Quality pillar, partners with Site Reliability Engineering and acts as a mentor to coach developers on Quality Assurance.<br/>CaptivateIQ follows the Quality Assistance approach: our Quality Engineers work closely with the development teams to enhance their testing strategies, lead efforts to resolve pain points, assess and mitigate product quality risks. We help solve quality challenges by implementing frameworks and solutions that our engineering teams use to deliver high quality code instead of just doing testing.<br/>We believe that quality starts with culture. Following a shift-left approach and early testing, our engineering team runs more than 10 thousand tests for each change in our codebase in less than 10 minutes.  Quality Engineers build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure and tools that make this possible. Our team maintains relevant quality and developer experience metrics as well to build a strong foundation for data driven decision making <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Take part in Quality Kickoffs with engineering teams to help developers define expectations for both functional and non-functional requirements and assess product quality risks before coding starts</li><li>Give guidance on testing projects, make sure that different quality aspects are considered such as performance, usability, integrity</li><li>Improve and maintain the existing test automation pipeline across the org</li><li>Give continuous feedback around potential process bottlenecks and make a difference by suggesting improvement actions</li><li>Assist in long-term quality improvement efforts, such as establishing additional quality gates, introducing requirement and change management processes and other initiatives</li><li>Support security and reliability aspects of our product by working together with Security and Site Reliability Engineers</li></ul> <h3>Requirments</h3> <ul> <li>Proven work experience in Test Automation / Quality Engineer role</li><li>Ability to build and maintain test automation pipelines from scratch</li><li>Experience with modern test automation frameworks such as Cypress</li><li>Strong communication skills, both written and verbal</li><li>Familiar with the following technologies: Git, Jest, Mocha, Python, Django, unittest, TypeScript/JavaScript</li><li>Understand the differences between different levels of testing and their importance</li><li>Provide a proactive, user-centric, organized approach with a process-oriented mentality</li><li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines, such as CircleCI, <a href="http://Harness.io">Harness.io</a>, GitHub Actions</li><li>Proven coaching and mentoring skills</li></ul> <h3>Bonus Points</h3> <ul> <li>Experience with automated performance testing</li><li>Knowledge of Terraform, AWS, Cloudflare platforms</li><li>Experience with building and maintaining Release Processes</li></ul> <h3>Benefits</h3> <ul> <li>100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents</li><li>Enjoy a one-time expense on your 1-year work anniversary (to use for travel, home furnishings, fancy meal)</li><li>One time work from home stipend &amp; annual stipends for professional development and caretaking </li><li>Newest Apple products to help you do your best work</li><li>Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company-wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent.</li></ul> <h3>Notice to Prospective Candidates</h3> <ul> <li>We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:</li><li>Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.</li><li>Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.</li><li>Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.</li><li>Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.</li><li>Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.</li><li>Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.</li></ul><br/>