Senior Quality Engineer

About AppOmni

AppOmni, a leader in SaaS Security, helps customers achieve secure productivity with their applications. Security teams and owners can quickly detect and mitigate threats using unmatched depth of protection, continuous monitoring, and comprehensive visibility. Trusted by over 25% of the Fortune 100, AppOmni specializes in securing diverse SaaS environments.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Quality Engineer to join our dynamic software testing efforts. As a key player, you will collaborate across the organization to ensure that our platform consistently delivers top-tier performance, reliability, and usability. Your mission will be to foster a quality-driven culture, driving continuous improvement and innovative testing practices that ensure exceptional product outcomes.

As a Senior QE, you will be instrumental in implementing robust testing strategies, automating processes, and championing quality initiatives across the organization. If you're a forward-thinking professional with a passion for software quality and a drive to push the boundaries of what's possible in quality engineering, we want to hear from you.

Our ideal candidate is self-motivated, technically adept, and committed to ensuring the success of the products we deliver to our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute test strategies, plans, scenarios, procedures, and corresponding test automation to deliver upon our full stack software quality responsibilities.
• Perform hands-on testing for complex, high-priority areas to ensure flawless execution.
• Work closely with developers during implementation to ensure appropriate levels of functional and non-functional testing. Prior experience with performance testing is a plus.
• Identify and analyze issues with software functionality, document problems with using a defect tracking system, and report defects to software developers.
• Troubleshoot test automation failures, stabilize brittle tests, and offer creative and innovative solutions to complex testing issues.
• Collaborate closely with development and product management teams and participate in appropriate peer code reviews.
• Closely monitor test execution results to provide timely and actionable feedback to our  Application Development, Product, and Site Reliability Engineering colleagues.
• Continuously improve testing processes to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.
• Track and report key quality metrics such as defect rates, test coverage, and release readiness to drive data-driven improvements.
• Stay current with the latest software testing tools, methodologies, and industry trends, introducing best practices and innovations to elevate team performance.
• Integrate into our CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives and contribute to our efforts to develop cross-functional SRE and QE hybrid engineering skills.

What We’re Looking For

• 5 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance.
• Proven track record as a Senior Quality Engineer or SDET with experience in both frontend (UI) and backend (API) automation testing.
• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes, including both exploratory/manual and test automation. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, including experience conducting root cause analysis (RCA) for customer-found defects.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.
• Expertise with Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript with solid experience using testing frameworks like Pytest, Cypress, and Playwright.
• Ability to apply best practices and coding standards, with a solid understanding of programming languages, functional design, algorithms, and architecture patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey technical details and analyses across distributed teams.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and adapt to changes in priority as needed.
• Experience with test suite/case/run management tools (e.g., JIRA Xray, etc.).
• A commitment to lifelong learning and professional development, demonstrated by continuous adaptation to emerging technologies and challenges.
• Experience with behavior-driven development (BDD), the Cucumber framework, and the Gherkin language.
• Prior experience with DevOps/SRE disciplines and practices is a significant plus.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.

Culture

Our flexible, remote-first team is collaborative and supportive as we move quickly to research and develop new ideas, deliver new features to our customers, and iterate on ideas and innovations. We accomplish this by focusing on our five core values: Trust, Transparency, Quality, Customer Focus, and Delivery. Our team is determined to make a difference to positively impact our way of life by securing the technology that is changing the world.

AppOmni is proud to be Certified by Great Place to WorkⓇ, as we seek to build a culture where all employees feel appreciated and supported, especially with clear and honest leadership, employee recognition, and an environment that fosters innovation and collaboration.

Diversity fuels innovation and drives growth by bringing various perspectives and skills. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where employees feel valued, heard, and empowered to reach their full potential. Join us in building a workplace where we can all thrive.

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Compensation & Benefits

AppOmni is committed to supporting our employees’ financial, professional and personal well-being.  To do this, we take a holistic view of compensation, one that values not just the immediate financial package, but also long-term growth of both our employees and our company.  We're committed to pay equity and transparency and encourage all candidates to discuss their salary expectations with us early in the application process.

Our total rewards package includes the following:

• Base Salary: The annual base salary compensation range in the U.S. for this role is: $112,488 - $154,671. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as the final candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience, as well as business considerations and peer compensation.
• Stock Options: Our vision is to not just grow as a company but to grow together.  By offering stock options, we are inviting you to be an integral part of our journey forward.
• Benefits: The many benefits of employment with AppOmni include working remotely, new hire home office / computer equipment stipend, generous paid time off, paid company holidays, paid floating holidays, paid parental leave, paid sick time and paid family leave for applicable states, health insurance - medical, dental, and vision with HSA option, LifeWorks Employee Assistance Program, company-provided life insurance, AD&D, STD/LTD and additional supplemental life insurance options, 401(k) and Roth retirement saving accounts, and a monthly wellness benefit reimbursement. All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and plan details. 

The application window is anticipated to close by October 31, 2024

AppOmni is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. AppOmni is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].