Sr Test Automation Specialist (SDET)

Posted 2 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
7+ Years Experience
Software
The Role
As a Senior Test Automation Specialist, you will lead automation efforts, partner with engineering teams to ensure features are testable, evaluate and improve existing automation frameworks, recommend testing tools, and create automated dashboards integrated into CI/CD pipelines. You’ll drive quality initiatives and distribute ownership of quality across teams.
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Location: This remote role is open to those who reside in Canada and can align to a Pacific time zone work schedule. 

About the job 

Testlio is a leading quality management company. Its unique approach combines humans and machines to help digital innovators assure quality products at scale. On 600K+ real devices. In 100+ languages. With 800+ payment methods. The company is 100% remote, with people in 150+ countries. It is female-founded; 46% of full-time people are women. Clients include Amazon, athenahealth, Match Group, Microsoft, the NBA, Netflix, PayPal, SAP, Uber, Wayfair, and many more. To learn more, visit www.testlio.com.

We are hiring a Senior Software Quality Engineer who will be a strong partner to our customers. You will be responsible for building innovative frameworks across the client’s engineering, recommending, improving, and implementing testing tools, techniques, and technologies. You will drive adoption and distribute ownership of quality across various top initiatives for maximum efficiency. Automation is an important KPI to track, and it is owned by QA and the developer together. We are looking for a leader of automation who can work alongside Testlio’s and client’s teams to continuously improve our automated testing efficiency while maintaining our quality bar to the supreme levels our customers expect.

Why you will love being a part of Testlio?

  • A true sense of belonging: the TestLion Pride is a global community of like-minded people who live Testlio’s six values every day. 
  • Growth through learning: knowledge exchange and learning are central to working at Testlio. You’ll find that motivated, experienced TestLions with diverse backgrounds can always introduce you to new perspectives. 
  • Great culture: Testlio’s is female-founded and is 46% women. Our purpose, vision, and values help drive positive mindsets and behaviors. People like working with each other and love the global scale of the company. We move fast and empower people on the frontlines to make decisions and own initiatives.
  • Investment in you: Testlio is a global company and we’ve created a few benefits that are available regardless of your location. In addition to the paid time off mentioned above, you can reimburse up to $300/yr for learning, you will receive stock options and an equipment policy with Testlio contributing to the bulk of the cost with regular equipment update intervals.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Partner with product and engineering teams to ensure features are developed using automation testability in mind.
  • Evaluate existing automation frameworks and test scripts and drive any necessary changes.
  • Recommend, augment, and implement usage of proven automation tools, technologies, and techniques to solve specific situations.
  • Create an automated dashboard to elevate the quality of our releases by helping maintain automated tests integrated into our CI/CD pipelines.
  • Distribute ownership of quality across the team and provide tools and support for smooth adoption.
  • Enable short and direct feedback loops on the quality of every code submission.
  • Enable developers with the tools (technologies or otherwise) to establish confidence from the start of feature design and implementation.
  • Stay current with trending processes, tools, technologies, techniques, and solutions.

What You Need to Succeed

Technical skills

  • A minimum of 7+ years of QE experience (or development experience).
  • 4+ years of experience with the following:
    • Must have: Proficiency with XCode or Espresso.
    • Nice to have: Experience with Appium.
    • Nice to have: Experience with Cypress, Playwright, pyTest, and Cucumber.
  • Hands-on experience using version control systems such as Git and a solid understanding of Git workflows.
  • Experience working with external testing solutions such as BrowserStack, marathonlab, or AWS.
  • Strong test automation design skills and a solid understanding of software development practices and methodologies (code structure, mocking, algorithms, etc).
  • Hands-on experience with cross-browser/device compatibility testing of web and mobile applications.
  • Solid Knowledge of automation implementation, including but limited to functional, performance, regression, analytics, accessibility.
  • Hands-on experience working with continuous integration tools.
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases such as MongoDB, SQL, or PostgreSQL.
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodology and testing tools.
  • Avid Learner: Passion for continuous learning and ability to effectively communicate technology-oriented concepts.

Human Skills

  • Passion, curiosity, and genuine interest in the field of software testing.
  • Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written, as well as strong presentation and time management abilities.
  • Be a good team player, socially open-minded, empathetic, and considerate of cultural differences; able to provide constructive yet clear feedback.
  • Comfortable with a frequently changing environment and able to adapt fast.
  • Socially open-minded, empathetic, and considerate of cultural differences.

What is the Candidate Consideration Process

We do our best to bring on individuals who will be excited about their role and have the potential for a great future with Testlio. Since we are 100% distributed we give you the chance to meet with multiple people throughout the organization to give you an idea of who you would be working with, and what the role expectations will be. Our interview process can take about 4 to 6 weeks to complete. 

  • Application
  • Recruiter interview 
  • TestGorilla assessment & live tech skills assessment
  • Hiring Manager Interview
  • Reference Checks
  • ~ 4 Stakeholder interviews
  • Offer & background check

Diversity and Inclusion

Testlio is an equal-opportunity employer deeply committed to creating an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are female-founded, and 46% of our team members identify as women. See the DEI section of our website for more information.

The Company
490 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

#WeAreHiring - Testlio is the originator of networked testing. Our software testing platform, global network of expert QA, QE, and DX testers, and Services power software testing. In any location. On any device. In any language.

Testlio clients include American Express, CBS, Microsoft, the NBA, Netflix, and SAP. Collectively, they serve nearly 2 billion users— and have awarded us an industry-leading 4.7 G2 rating and an NPS of 75+. Our employees love Testlio, too, with an average Glassdoor employee rating of 4.8. To learn more, visit www.testlio.com.

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