OUR ENGINEERING TEAM

The Grove product/engineering/design team is rooted in a data and goal-driven culture. We love to collaborate on business and technology challenges and solve them quickly, intelligently, and robustly. We are working on the web, mobile, tools, core services, data eng, and sys/ops. We work in small Agile teams to cultivate autonomy, collaboration, and speed. We build in a modern, evolving stack (Python, Django, PostGres, Javascript, Vue, Redis, Memcache, Redshift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Scala, and more), leveraging new technologies as needed. We use CI/CD to deploy several times a day so that we can impact the business as quickly as possible. We use Selenium and Cypress in addition to regular unit testing strategies to implement automated test suites on the front-end and on the back-end (with java, javascript, and python). We operate with shared trust and enjoy being 'in this together' to collaborate on the challenges of a rapidly scaling business. We are based in San Francisco and Durham, North Carolina. 

This role is remote within the following US states:

CA, ME, WA, SC, NV, NC, TX, MA, MO, VT, GA, OR, PA, IL, VA, MD

If you live in another state, feel free to apply – but we do not yet have payroll set up and will validate we can support your state before proceeding with the interview process.

And while this role is remote, you are welcome to use our offices if you are in the San Francisco, CA, Portland, ME, or Durham, NC areas. We may also ask you to travel (at most once per quarter) to meet with colleagues face-to-face in San Francisco (Grove pays for the travel).

THE ROLE:

As a QA engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our releases along with great user experience for grove.co and Grove Collaborative mobile applications (on iPhone and Android). You will join a team of world-class, highly motivated QA engineers, software engineers, and product managers to deliver the best e-commerce service patterns and practices that ensure developer productivity and scalable, reliable websites, mobile applications, and internal services or tools. We’re growing incredibly fast and need high-quality, maintainable, and scalable technologies to power all our front-end or back-end applications and tools. You will be in charge of mentoring development teams on end to end or regression testing coverage and best practices, complementing acceptance criteria with elements pertaining to quality assurance, delivering test plans for big releases at the very least, and operating manual tests (eventually implementing automated tests suites for all types of applications yourself).

YOUR IMPACT:

• Make mature, bright decisions to move our systems forward
• Communicate information and train other engineers on best practices and techniques for high-quality integration and release processes
• Work with engineering leadership to create a testing and automation roadmap and deliver against it.
• Proven experience in defining and executing test automation strategies by partnering with business and development teams supporting in-sprint test automation.
• Experience coaching and mentoring others on test automation tools and coding best practices
• Use your ideas to implement features and demonstrate how it ought to be done.
• Eventually own some of the SDLC processes and measure it with the lens of quality by manual and automation test suites.
• Be the customer advocate from the beginning of the project.

ABOUT YOU:

• 5+ years of strong QA experience in e-commerce.
• 3+ years of proven experience programming and debugging as a test automation engineer using any of Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, and Appium Test frameworks.
• Good knowledge of integration, regression, and release testing best practices and processes.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Good understanding of web applications testing.
• You value and take responsibility for the quality of your features, including writing your own test plan.
• You provide original, out-of-the-box ideas to detect and track edge cases or nontrivial bugs or issues.
• Motivated and assertive in learning and helping your team be successful
• An innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude
• Strong desire to excel, learn and grow career-wise.
• Exposure to mobile applications testing is a plus.
• Knowledge of scripting languages and Selenium or other automation frameworks is a plus.
• Fluent in written and verbal English

BENEFITS:

• Core Benefits: Equity, Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax and Roth 401k options, Short term and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance, Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Perks: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Perkspot discount platform, Quarterly peer recognition awards, Class Pass discount, Free VIP Membership + 25% off every Grove order
• Work/Life: WFH stipend + internet reimbursement, Flexible Paid Time Off, 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave + discounts on fertility services

ABOUT GROVE COLLABORATIVE:

Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative creates innovative natural products and offers a curated selection of healthy home essentials like cleaning supplies and personal care products. With a flexible, monthly delivery model and access to knowledgeable Grove Guides, Grove’s platform makes it easy for people to switch to healthier, more sustainable routines. Every item Grove offers, both from their flagship Grove Co. brand and from exceptional third-party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for sustainability, efficacy and supply chain practices. On a mission to move Beyond Plastic, Grove is the first plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to becoming 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, visit grove.co/beyondplastic.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

We strive to complete the interview process and give you a clear answer within two weeks of your first conversation with Grove. This isn’t always possible as schedules sometimes conflict, but it is our goal.

The process works as follows:

You’ll do a basic 30 minute screen with someone on our recruiting team, and a more in depth screen with the hiring manager for the position. These are conversations to understand the depth and relevance of your experience, and how you work - they are not technical assessments and don’t contain e.g. brainteasers or riddles.

At this point we need to make sure you can write good code. We have a take-home exercise (about 2-3 hours of work) that most candidates choose to complete. But we also recognize that for some candidates these hours may not be easily available during the time-frame of the interview process. In order to make the process accessible to as many candidates as possible, we are also happy to evaluate a side project, open-source contributions, or professional work product that you have permission to share.

Interview loop

The rest of the interview loop will consist of speaking with engineers and a product manager. We don’t do any algorithmic-style coding questions, but you will do a system-design collaborative exercise with one of our engineers, and spend time reviewing and discussing the code from the second step. This is designed to simulate what it’s like to work with you, and see how you think – not to press you on hashmap runtime complexities.

If there is something important we were unable to uncover in the primary interview loop, the hiring manager may ask for another 30 minutes of your time. Our goal is to get all of the information we need in the loop, but reserve the right to one extra follow-up.

References and offer.

We ask for references when we are positively inclined to give you an offer. In many cases, references tend towards formality, and in others we try to use them to gather a valuable data point that we weren’t able to gather in the interview process. We are always respectful of your references’ time. Immediately following references, you’ll speak with the recruiting team and/or the hiring manager to talk through compensation, benefits, start dates, and more. There should be no surprises during the offer stage.

You sign and we’ll welcome you to Grove!

Let’s do this

We're building a diverse and inclusive work environment where we learn from each other. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work. Come join the community at Grove. It's a heck of a lot of fun, and we'd love to tell you more about it.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected].