Senior Test Automation Engineer

Summary

Join Onebrief, a leading platform for military staff workflows, as a Quality Engineer. You will champion quality within engineering teams, ensuring high-quality releases. Responsibilities include early identification of potential problems, developing test plans and procedures, writing automated tests, coordinating with other teams, conducting exploratory testing, and identifying quality trade-offs. You will need 4+ years of QA engineering experience, expertise in JS/TS, React, and Node.js, and a strong technical background. Preferred qualifications include experience with CI/CD pipelines and various testing methodologies. Onebrief values creating value for users and seeks ambitious, collaborative individuals.

Requirements

• Be a trained and experienced (4+ years) QA engineer, who's worked extensively testing framework and tooling, particularly in the JS/TS, React and Node.js context
• Understand what it means to be a quality champion for your team, not just owning quality, but leading a dev team towards quality ownership
• Understand, and have worked in a left-shifted environment before
• Be an expert at writing and executing test cases
• Love to investigate, triage, document, and communicate complex issues in a clear and concise manner
• Have a strong technical background and be a proficient programmer
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices
• Be a stickler for great developer experience and have frequently rolled up your sleeves and found solutions that made the whole team better

Responsibilities

• Weigh in early in the dev cycle (during the design process), to identify rabbit-holes and potential problems in areas like performance, security, usability, and unintended cascading breakage in adjacent areas — before code is written
• Develop test plans, quality-related procedures (like bug bashes, defect triage, etc.), and documentation that support developers as they build new features
• Write automated tests at multiple layers of the pyramid (unit, integration, e2e) with the goal of always shifting defect detection as far left as possible
• Coordinate with other teams to communicate how your teams’ work will impact their work — before it is merged
• Conduct exploratory testing and root cause analysis as needed, and mentor others in this skill
• Exercise excellent judgment to identify and negotiate quality trade-offs that will inevitably arise in a software development environment that’s highly responsive to customer demand
• Work with your fellow engineers to develop first-class quality metrics that align with overall quality strategy, with a focus on monitoring and observability

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines that make use of: Github Actions (or similar) declarative pipelines
• Have experience with Contract testing
• Have experience with Visual regression testing, either homegrown or 3rd party
• Have experience with API endpoint testing
• Have experience with Load and/or performance testing
• Have experience with Log analysis with a tool like: Datadog, Kibana, or Prometheus
• Have experience with Docker, Kubernetes