Remote Senior Test Automation Engineer

Summary

Join our growing Quality team at Onebrief to make a foundational impact on the product and growth trajectory of the company as a quality champion.

Requirements

• Knowledge of industry-standard quality engineering practices, along with solid opinions on when it’s OK to break the rules / dispense with conventional wisdom
• 3+ years of experience writing test automation at the unit and integration layer of the pyramid for a React-based or React-like web application using any of the following: Mocha, Jest, Cypress, Playwright
• Creatively implementing shift left methodologies that demonstratively led to higher code quality
• Proven ability to mentor engineers in best practices around quality assurance practices in general and/or test automation specifically

Responsibilities

• Weighing 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
• Developing test plans, quality-related procedures (like bug bashes, defect triage, etc.), and documentation that support developers as they build new features
• Writing automated tests at multiple layers of the pyramid (unit, integration, e2e) with the goal of always shifting defect detection as far left as possible
• Coordinating with other teams to communicate how your teams’ work will impact their work — before it is merged
• Conducting exploratory testing and root cause analysis as needed, and mentoring others in this skill
• Exercising excellent judgement to identify and negotiate quality trade-offs that will inevitably arise in a software development environment that’s highly responsive to customer demand
• Working 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

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

Benefits

100% gross retention and 158% net retention—our revenue grew 4x and reached double-digit millions