Staff Quality Engineer (Hybrid - Austin)

Overview :

As the Staff Quality Engineer at Weedmaps, you will be responsible for working cross-functionally promoting quality principles throughout the organization.

The Staff QE will play a major role in delivering quality releases in an agile environment while meeting company standards of excellence and customers expectations.

The Staff QE is also expected to lead quality optimizations to improve uptime, quality, and speed of releases in highly complex, integrated services ecosystems.

Staff QE is also responsible for building a strong community of testing within Weedmaps Engineering (and the broader Technology / Product / Design organization) by promoting agile testing methodologies, tooling, and practices.

The impact you'll make :

• 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
• Coach and train others, actively participate in upleveling QE technical skills
• Determine risk / benefits scenarios to make data driven decisions

What you've accomplished :

• 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
• Proven experience with designing and coding tools, frameworks, wide-reaching solutions
• Experience with successful agile techniques, including : User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, CI / CD, Git, & Peer Reviews
• Working experience with test automation tools, such as Playwright and Selenium
• Flexibility and creativity in handling multiple activities and competing priorities
• Self-motivated, driven, results-oriented
• Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to promote collaboration within and across teams
• Strong, effective and persuasive communications at all levels of management in both written and verbal form
• Ability to adapt, plan, and organize in a constantly changing environment
• Must be proactive, meticulous, organized and detail oriented
• Ability to meet challenging deadlines

Bonus points :

• 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

The base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $174,000 per year

2024 Benefits for Full-Time, Regular Employees :

• Physical Health benefits : Medical, Dental & Vision :
• Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits :
• Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• Employee Training
• Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment / 529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Family planning / fertility
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps?

• You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry
• You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes, including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis
• You get an opportunity to shape the future of the cannabis industry
• You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best
• You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills
• Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!

Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion and religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov / E-Verify.

Applicants are entitled to reasonable accommodations under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state / local laws, unless the accommodation presents undue hardship.

Please email us at peopleoperations at weedmaps.com if you would like to confidentially discuss a potential accommodation during the interview process.