Weedmaps is hiring a
Staff Quality Engineer, Remote - United States

Summary

The Staff Quality Engineer at Weedmaps is a remote role that involves promoting quality principles throughout the organization, delivering quality releases in an agile environment, optimizing existing delivery pipeline, integrating performance tests in CI/CD, leading improvements of QE standards, processes, and procedures, and more. The requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree in business, information technology, or computer science, at least 10-15 years of experience as an SDET or similar quality automation role, and proficiency in Agile Quality Engineering techniques.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, or information technology, or computer science
• Requires minimum 10-15 years of experience as an SDET or similar quality automation role, with an emphasis on programming
• Thorough understanding of the software development process and all aspects of Agile Quality Engineering and a proven record of making impact in delivering quality at scale

Responsibilities

• Working cross-functionally with multiple teams within designing the end-to-end test solution in CI/CD for existing integrations
• Working with Engineering, TechOps, and Product implementing multiple levels of coverage for platform as a whole minimizing the risk of outages
• Optimizing existing delivery pipeline by further integrating existing regression and smoke tests in CI/CD
• Integration of performance tests in CI/CD
• Proposing and architecting further optimization to speed/quality of test executions
• Work x-functionally to lead implementation, optimization, and measurement of best practices in prevention, detection, and remediation of quality issues
• Implement quality dashboards for KPIs, SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, etc
• Work with Engineering on synthetic monitoring solutions
• Lead continuous improvements of QE standards, processes, and procedures
• Promote and continuously improve test automation effectiveness in CI/CD environment
• Plan for future QE department operational and procedural improvements
• Keep abreast of technical trends with regards to Software Quality Engineering, and evaluate their value for improving our software delivery process
• Influence quality and productivity improvements through involvement in the development of new and improved tools, procedures, process innovations, training

Preferred Qualifications

• Functional programming experience within a variety of frameworks and languages
• Strong working knowledge of testing across applications written in React, React Native, Kotlin/Swift, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, & Node.js
• Working experience with API and system level testing, including unit testing
• Working experience in performance & load testing, such as Blazemeter
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and all aspects of testing using containers
• Working experience with synthetic monitoring tools

Benefits

• Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision: Employee - employer paid premium 100%, Company contribution to a HSA when electing HSA, if applicable
• Mental Health benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), confidential counseling and work/life support services
• Basic Life & AD&D: Company-paid Basic Term Life Insurance coverage equal to one times your annual salary, with the option to purchase additional coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan: Employer matching contributions up to 4% of eligible compensation
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO): Accrue up to 20 days of PTO per year, depending on your years of service
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings: Up to $100 monthly student loan repayment assistance or a $50 monthly contribution to a 529 Education Savings Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs): Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA, with pre-tax contributions
• Voluntary Life Insurance: Employee-paid coverage for yourself, your spouse, and/or your children
• Critical Illness Insurance: Employee-paid coverage to help with expenses related to a critical illness
• Accident Insurance: Employee-paid coverage to help with expenses related to an accident
• Short-Term Disability Insurance: Company-paid coverage for up to 26 weeks if you are unable to work due to a non-work-related injury or illness
• Long-Term Disability Insurance: Company-paid coverage for up to age 65 if you are unable to perform the essential functions of your job due to a non-work-related injury or illness
• Pet Insurance: Employee-paid coverage for your pet’s medical expenses
• Family Planning/Fertility: Fertility and Family Building benefits, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg freezing, and surrogacy
• Identity Theft Protection: Employee-paid coverage to help protect you from identity theft
• Legal Services: Employee-paid access to legal services for a variety of personal matters
• Paid Parental Leave: Up to 12 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and up to 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers