Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.
We are looking for an Senior SDET Engineer you will work on our quality engineering initiatives throughout the engineering organization in combination with building and scaling our production environment. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience, a passion for quality engineering, systems engineering, automating operations, infrastructure security, and high-availability systems as well as experience in software development. We are heavily invested in Ruby on Rails, Mongo, and ElasticSearch. As a Senior SDET Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You are agile enough to jump into most projects and be hungry to build so much more
Minimum qualifications:
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar
- 5+ years of experience in developing software, automated frameworks and test automation tools
- Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and various types of databases. You possess a good knowledge of MongoDB or ElasticSearch.
- Experience with technologies like Docker, VPN, Kubernetes (strong experience with Kubernetes)
- Experience with Distributed systems
- Experience coding and programming using Java, Python, or similar programming languages
- Knowledge of automation frameworks like Cypress and Rspec
- Some exposure to a modern backend programming languages, preferably Ruby
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience providing technical leadership and leading projects (e.g., test, release, etc.).
- Experience developing designing automated internal frameworks, manage monitoring systems, or improving testing effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement the overall testing strategy and methodologies for the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and software development goals
- Drive the adoption of CI/CD practices, ensuring automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed in deployment pipelines.
- Conduct research on emerging technologies, tools, and processes in software testing; evaluate and recommend their adoption to keep the organization at the forefront of testing best practices.
- Lead root cause analysis for complex bugs and issues, working with development teams to ensure long-term solutions are implemented.
- Collaborate with DevOps/Infra team to improve our existing infrastructure and solve daily operational challenges and improving Engineering productivity.
- Work cross-functionally with various teams at Apollo.
- Database support with MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RedisCache and BigQuery.
- Define and implement the overall testing strategy and methodologies for the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and software development goals.
- Lead the design and development of advanced automated testing frameworks and tools that can scale and adapt to various projects and technologies.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate quality assurance processes early in the software development lifecycle.
- Drive the adoption of CI/CD practices, ensuring automated tests are efficiently integrated and executed in deployment pipelines.
- Serve as a thought leader in software testing, mentoring and guiding QE teams, and fostering a culture of quality and continuous improvement.
- Conduct research on emerging technologies, tools, and processes in software testing; evaluate and recommend their adoption to keep the organization at the forefront of quality assurance practices.
- Oversee and manage complex testing projects, coordinating with multiple teams to ensure timelines, budgets, and quality targets are met.
- Lead root cause analysis for complex bugs and issues, working with development teams to ensure long-term solutions are implemented.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Communicate technical ideas to software developers in written and verbal formats.
- Provide strategic testing initiatives for projects to introduce efficient techniques and test productivity improvements
- Work and collaborate with other teams across different offices of the company to achieve organizational objectives when needed
- Manage risks and deliverables to ensure that the testing activities remain within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards
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What You’ll Love About Apollo
Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!
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What We Do
Founded in 2015, Apollo is a leading data intelligence and sales engagement platform trusted by 10,000 paying customers, from rapidly growing startups to some of the largest global enterprises. Its community-based approach to crowdsourcing data gives users maximum coverage while ensuring data accuracy.
Today, Apollo’s advanced algorithms and unique data acquisition methods help 1 million sales professionals enrich and analyze prospects’ data to increase quality conversations and opportunities.
Why Work With Us
Apollo is a product-led growth company focused as much on our customers as we are on our employees. Our culture is centered around two things: our values (ownership, integrity, curiosity, excellence, teamwork and fun), and our goal of helping customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform.
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