Staff Software Engineer - Web Test Engineer

Summary

Join Reddit's Test Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to building a quality-focused engineering culture. You will design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks, tools, and services, analyze production issues, and improve automated testing. Collaborate with various teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues, and influence the entire engineering organization on testing best practices. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering, test automation, and web application development. Reddit offers a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, retirement, paid time off, and parental leave.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as an SDET, or as a Software Engineer for web platform
• 3+ years experience in modern web application development
• Experience in designing and building scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and services for testing responsive web applications
• Experience in writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium and/or other modern frontend test automation technologies
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Responsibilities

• Help in building an Engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across Reddit
• Develop and evolve test automation frameworks, tools, and services
• Analyze production issues, identify test gaps across the entire testing stack and make systemic improvements to automated testing
• Maintain test infrastructure stability in non-production environments
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution
• Influence the entire engineering organization on unit/integration/end-to-end tests

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience in Typescript and/or Javascript
• Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of responsive web applications
• Experience in building test frameworks and automated tests for responsive web applications
• Strong understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks in the workflow
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies for web applications releases

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off