Lead Software Development Engineer In Test

Summary

Join Collectors, a leading innovator in collectible technology, as a Staff QA Engineer. Lead functional and automation testing across multiple products, designing and maintaining robust testing frameworks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish testing strategies, encompassing manual and automated methodologies. Contribute to the existing automated testing framework, ensuring comprehensive test coverage. Ensure solutions have appropriate controls across the testing pyramid to handle high global traffic volumes. This role requires a strong candidate responsible for creating, adopting, and executing the quality assurance program throughout the software development life cycle and across multiple agile teams. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits, with opportunities for remote work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the Quality Engineering or Software Engineering
• 7+ years of QA test automation experience
• 3+ years of setting up load/performance test frameworks
• 3+ years of CI/CD experience integrating automation solutions into the DevOps pipeline, including expertise in PR testing
• 3+ years of AWS cloud solutions experience
• Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC and STLC
• API testing using Karate(most preferred), Postman, Soap UI, similar tools
• Mobile testing using Appium and Lambdatest or similar tools
• Solid Understanding of containerization tools and technologies using Docker, Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and realtime datastream and message stream frameworks like Apache Kafka
• Strong experience in any programming languages - Java or Python or JavaScript
• Experience with load and performance testing using tools like Gatling, K6, JMeter, Loadrunner or similar tools
• Experience with Jira (or similar bug tracking software) and GIT (familiar with source control and its best practices)
• Self-motivator, who can work independently, able to learn quickly, meets deadlines, and demonstrates good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills; detail-oriented

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive QA strategy that aligns with our organizational goals
• Define quality standards, methodologies, and processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to gather requirements, review specifications, and plan testing activities
• Oversee test case creation, test execution, and defect management to ensure thorough and effective testing
• Lead and coordinate the testing process for new product features across multiple applications
• This includes managing both manual testing and automated testing efforts to ensure the features are thoroughly validated before release
• Implement reliable and repeatable QA processes and tools using automated, load and performance testing approaches
• Plan and drive improvements to the automation and performance test framework architecture and test coverage with focus on faster turnaround times and high quality deliverables
• Assist in troubleshooting of incidents for your products by reproducing in lower environments and testing fixes with a quick turnaround time
• Effective bug reporting and coordinating with teams on fixes
• Make recommendations for system features and improvements
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first giving them a seamless experience at every touchpoint

Benefits

• A Competitive Salary and benefits
• The opportunity to be a part of our inaugural Guadalajara, Mexico office, and to make a real impact on the launch and success of this team
• A dynamic and collaborative international engineering team
• An organization dedicated to supporting the passionate Collectors community
• Location: Employees that are within a 1-hour commuting distance to our Midtown Guadalajara office will be expected to work onsite a minimum of 2 days a week. We are additionally open to considering remote candidates that are outside of the 1-hour commutable distance