Staff Quality Engineer (Hybrid - Austin)

Staff Quality Engineer (Hybrid)

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Location : Austin, Texas

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, information technology, or computer science.
• 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 with 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
• 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
• 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

Compensation :

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

Benefits for Full-Time, Regular Employees :

• Physical Health benefits : Medical, Dental & Vision (Employee - employer paid premium 100%)
• Mental Health benefits : Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps?

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• Shape the future of the cannabis industry
• Collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best
• Numerous opportunities to learn and grow your professional skills

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, religion, color, national origin, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

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Remote working / work at home options are available for this role.