Principal QA Engineer

Posit is seeking a Principal QA engineer with strong leadership, analysis, and automation infrastructure experience. The team you will be working with builds IDEs for Data Scientists.  We will continue our focus of creating a delightful user experience for our Data Science community that is focussed on both the R and Python languages.  

You will be working on a team that has been in the progress of building features for our users over the last 9-12 months.  We are looking for a Principal Quality Engineering leader who can help organize our team’s tasks while also being able to contribute in our day to day work.  This will be a heavy player coaching role to ensure we are on track with our work and our stakeholders have the information they need.  

This role offers a great opportunity to drive the quality of our software through understanding what our customers want, what our stakeholders are expecting, careful testing and thoughtful analysis. If you are an optimizer who is passionate about improving existing systems, driving new technology, and working with amazing people, this job could be for you.

What you’ll own:

• Define manual and automated test strategies and Definition of Done for projects. The team you will own quality for handles many distinct features and needs a champion of quality for each one. You will drive your team to determine what needs to be tested and automated, define regression and validation requirements, solicit feedback from stakeholders, and document the test processes for the rest of the team.
• As Principal Quality Engineer for the team you will own the overall coordination, communication, and priority of the day to day QE actions on the team.  
• Working closely with QA and Engineering leadership to ensure we have the correct process and strategy for our day to day work.
• Create, maintain and enhance automated test infrastructure, making automated tests easier to author, faster to run, more resilient, and broader in coverage. Depending on the project, these automated tests could be end-to-end, API, or load and performance. It is critical for the team to have automated tests and a long-term automation strategy, and we would love to hear from you how best to accomplish that.
• Develop infrastructure as code to deploy reproducible test environments in AWS, Kubernetes, docker, etc.
• Domain expertise, over time. QA engineers work heavily with other teams and often act as a connective “glue” between teams. To be effective, you will need to learn from these other teams. This will include learning about the Posit products and what is most needed for the projects we support.
• User advocacy for new features and enhancements to products and projects

What you’ll help with:

• Collaborate with the developers and other stakeholders to make sure we are building the right things, and building things right
• Collaborate with other QA Engineers to coordinate test coverage, assess risk holistically, and mentor others in areas where you have expertise (as they will for you)
• Build for the future of automated tests and infrastructure

What you’ll teach:

• Both front and back end test automation best practices, helping to create repeatable and maintainable automation patterns for others to follow easily
• A quality mindset across the team. Everyone on the team owns quality, but QA should help set the tone of user advocacy
• Industry trends and new technologies related to testing and automation
• Ability to communicate across teams and stakeholders.  You will be working with your QA team, Engineers, Engineering leadership, and outside stakeholders.

What you’ll learn:

• An appreciation for data science workflows
• A deeper understanding of IDE and environments needed
• New skills related to data science patterns and best practices

You have QA Skills:

• The desire to help other teams, and work with them daily in a highly collaborative environment
• Expertise in the Python language
• Familiarity the R Language  
• Experience web based interfaces and IDE applications
• Experience writing automated tests, in any language . Preferred Typescript, Mocha, Python and Selenium 
• Expertise in building test automation infrastructure
• Experience creating high-level test strategies for multiple products
• Curiosity and a willingness to learn new technologies
• A humble, collaborative approach to producing high-quality software
• Experience writing SQL queries to verify data
• 8+ years of professional experience in software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering

Nice to have: 

• Exper