QA Engineer

Summary

Join Shift5, a rapidly growing company specializing in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for operational technology (OT) systems, as a Lead QA Engineer. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of features built into Shift5's product suite, including testing, verifying, and providing a high-quality technology stack. You will work in a team-based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers, and designers to deliver high-quality solutions that meet customer needs. This role is part of the Product Engineering team and reports to the Director of Software Engineering.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of experience in software QA and automated test development
• Strong proficiency in creating automated test suites against frontend applications and APIs as well as integration tests to ensure functionality and compatibility across various software and hardware components
• Ability to set up and configure test environments consisting of both hardware and software components
• Experience leading a team of QA Engineers and instilling best practices
• Experience working with software teams, demonstrating advanced skill in automated and manual testing
• Deep understanding of QA Engineering practices and concepts
• Demonstrated experience with REST API’s, CI/CD, automated UI test tooling (Selenium/Cypress/Playwright), Docker, Linux
• US Citizenship

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead for a newly formed QA function. Prior experience as a QA Team Lead or QA Team Manager is preferred
• Write comprehensive test plans for new and existing features
• Create regression test suites to ensure ongoing stability
• Write automated tests against APIs and UIs (driven by Selenium, for example)
• Work with our Platform Engineering (DevOps) team to integrate automated testing within our build pipelines
• Execute manual functional and exploratory tests against the entire Shift5 solution stack
• Be highly adaptable and able to learn new technologies quickly
• Collaborate closely with Software, Hardware, Firmware, Data, and Platform Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Prior experience with CANbus, MIL-STD-1553, SAE J1939, ASCB, ARINC 429
• Familiarity working with and deploying to AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Active (or ability to hold/obtain a) US Government Top Secret security clearance

Benefits

• Base Salary: $150,000-180,000
• Bonus program and equity in a fast-growing startup
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families
• Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions
• 401k with employer contributions
• Employer-paid Life and Disability Insurance
• Uncapped paid time off policy
• Flexible work & remote work policy
• Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA)