Sr. Quality Engineer

🌎 Location: Remote within the UK and Europe

⬆ Reporting Into:  Quality Engineering Manager

About Ceros

At Ceros, we believe content is your most valuable asset. It forms the foundation of your brand, shaping first impressions and setting the stage for successful engagement with your audience throughout every stage of the buying journey. In a world where buyers are inundated with endless media, the need for your content to cut through the noise is critical to ensuring it has an impact.

Our no-code content creation platform empowers businesses to transform the buying journey with rich, interactive content that captures the attention of today’s busy buyers and drives real business outcomes. The platform makes it faster, easier, and more cost-effective to create premium content, allowing businesses to scale it across their go-to-market programs.

Today, Ceros powers some of the most engaging experiences on the web. In 2023 alone, interactive content created with Ceros — from landing pages and pitch decks to case studies and guides — was viewed more than half a billion times, with over 3 million comments added using MarkUp, our visual collaboration tool.

Working at Ceros means making an impact at scale. Our products and services are beloved by over 500,000 users and leveraged by leading brands including Workday, Colliers, Getty, McKesson, and McKinsey. Ceros is backed by top-tier investors, including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

About the Team

As part of the Ceros Product team, you’ll be working with a small, cross-functional group of the most talented people you’ve ever worked with. We hire only passionate and creative people with a proven and unquestionable ability to execute, and every member of the team is equally responsible for moving the product forward.

We have a dynamic company culture that collaborates daily. We care deeply about the user experience, and we debate passionately about our ideas. When you work at Ceros, you check your ego at the door, and you aren’t afraid to be honest, especially to yourself. We take our jobs seriously but ourselves not so much. As a member of a remote-first team, you embrace transparency and collaboration.

The Role

Designing and building the Ceros platform is an ambitious task, and maintaining the highest standards of quality is paramount. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that our platform delivers flawless and intuitive user experiences. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams of Software Engineers, Designers, and Product Managers to create automated and manual testing strategies that align with our development goals and drive the quality of our products to the next level.

This is not just a traditional QA role; you’ll be embedded within the product teams, collaborating on code, participating in design discussions, and helping drive decisions that impact the entire platform. Our engineers embrace a “test early, test often” philosophy, and you’ll lead the charge in promoting this mindset. Your contributions will shape the future of how we build, test, and release features, ensuring reliability, scalability, and speed for both our internal teams and customers.

Our technology stack includes React, NextJS, AWS, and various modern testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, WebDriver.io, and GitHub Actions. You’ll have the opportunity to refine our test automation frameworks, mentor engineers on best practices, and introduce innovative testing methodologies that push the boundaries of what’s possible in a modern, cloud-based development environment.

Key Responsibilities 

• Cares deeply about our customers’ experience.
• Works well embedded on a cross-functional team.
• Leads the development of the next iteration of our test automation frameworks.
• Creates and prioritizes a backlog for framework tech debt and enhancements.
• Leads automation-focused technical training sessions.
• Creates and executes manual and automated tests (unit, API, end-to-end)
• Sets and enforces automation best practices across teams.
• Leads code reviews and pair programming sessions.
• Researches framework enhancements and prototype solutions to gauge their usefulness.
• Actively mentors teammates.

Practical stuff we anticipate you having

• 5+ years of experience manually testing with an agile software team
• 5+ years of experience writing automated tests
• Expert in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Comfortable with the Linux command line 
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tooling
• Knowledge of the different types of software testing
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Nice to have

• Load testing web applications
• Experience or a strong interest in AI-related tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other cutting-edge AI applications.
• Performance testing javascript-based applications in the browser
• Web application security
• Experience testing a visual design application of some kind 

What we’re looking for from the heart

• Passion, enthusiasm, energy, humor, and the ability to convey these through video, Slack, and email communications
• Willingness to learn and adapt
• Curiosity; you seek out a wide breadth of information, feedback, and input to guide decisions and balance intuition with research and a deep understanding of your surroundings
• A team-player mentality; you put your team first and are willing and able to do anything to help your team and your peers succeed
• Comfortability working in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment
• You have the superpower to think beyond existing conventions to solve unusual product design challenges and the skill to know when to apply this strategically.
• You balance this with your expert knowledge of best practice design patterns, knowing when to leverage existing behaviors and frameworks. 
• You can present and communicate complex ideas and their intricacies to stakeholders.
• You thrive in agile environments. You enjoy working with developers and view them as your partners. 
• You are driven by collectively doing the right thing for the product over competing individually to have your ideas succeed. 

Key Things to Know

• This is a full-time position
• This is a remote-first role

Benefits

📈 Stock options

🌴 Flexible time off

🤒 Paid Sick days

🧘 Wellness Fridays (Flexible working hours)

💵 Stipend for your home office setup

💻 Excellent gear (Macbook Pro, external monitor, etc.)

👩‍💻👨‍💻  Stipend towards experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

🏢 Unlimited access to co-working spaces around the globe

At Ceros, we are deeply committed to the recruitment, retention, and growth of diverse talent; uniting people from unique backgrounds in our shared passion for unlocking creativity through technology.

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.  We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.