Software Engineer in Test

Summary

Join NinjaHoldings as their first Software Engineer in Test and build test tools, services, and frameworks for their complex lending platform. Work closely with QA, Dev, and DevOps teams to improve testing efficiency. The ideal candidate is a developer passionate about testing and building tools for technical users, focusing on well-designed interfaces, extensibility, and comprehensive documentation. Responsibilities include improving automated regression system execution time, building custom Python and Ruby libraries for test data generation, enhancing QA's automated testing development, integrating with third-party test tools, and building a system to track long-term QA metrics. The position requires 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, 3+ years with Ruby on Rails, experience with frontend developers, strong communication, library/CLI/service building skills, and technical documentation experience. NinjaHoldings offers a competitive salary and benefits package, flexible remote work, and a dynamic startup culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a backend software engineer for non-trivial web applications
• 3+ years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails Ruby
• Experience working with Frontend developers
• Strong communication ability to describe complex problems and solutions
• Experience building libraries, CLI tools, and service for developers and QA
• Strong ability to write technical documentation
• Experience setting up and enhancing CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Work closely with DevOps on improving the general execution time of our automated regression system
• Build custom Python and Ruby libraries that generate test data such as Credit Ninja customers that can be approved for a loan in testing
• Improve the quality of QA's automated testing development by designing and implementing better abstractions for the QA team to use when constructing regression tests
• Will integrate into various 3rd party test tools to expand the type of testing QA can do
• Will build a system to track the long term QA metrics desired by the VP of Engineering such as the probability of test failure based on historical unit/regression test runs and code churn

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience using SQL and working with Postgres
• Strong experience in QA or DevOps
• Experience in Data Driven testing

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
• Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city