Senior Quality Engineer Lead, Airbnb
Infrastructure
$132-154k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$132-154k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software quality assurance experience, with a proven track record of quality delivery
- Experience with partnering with Quality Engineering teams to help advance test automation
- Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, performance management, career development, and building a strong, happy team
- Proactive communication and interpersonal skills; strong stakeholder management
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, managing ambiguity and uncertainty
- Ability to anticipate risks & issues and proactively mitigate them
- Experience using collaborative project management tools and processes (e.g. JIRA, Asana, Smartsheets, Google Docs, scrum, agile)
- Passion for building and delivering high quality software
What the job involves
- Nestled within Airbnb's Infrastructure Org, the Quality team is a team of ~150, spread across the globe in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Ireland, India, China and more
- Through professional Software Quality Assurance expertise, we ensure the quality of the Airbnb software and support nearly every one of Airbnb's business teams. We enjoy partnering with business stakeholders in order to deliver the best experience to our community
- As a Senior QE Lead, you are responsible for ensuring software product quality through the design, execution, and documentation of manual and automated tests. within the QE organization
- You will work cross-functionally to improve the quality of our software, and do so with clear communication, efficient program planning, and deep focus on overall project execution. You'll play a critical role in ensuring that Airbnb delivers high quality products
- Be accountable for planning and execution of the QE team's priorities
- Work with QE leadership to define, launch, and execute multiple strategic and operational initiatives in service of the above priorities
- Ensure quality is consistent across all projects and is represented during project planning, development, and launches
- Drive the adoption of automated testing as a key strategic lever for ensuring efficient and effective testing
- Clearly communicate program status and progress to large groups of project stakeholders and senior leadership
- Effectively manage change by influencing and communicating with key stakeholders. Anticipate risks associated with change management, and ensure creative and effective mitigations are available
- In collaboration with Product teams, identify opportunities and advocate for product improvements and/or tools that support the team's strategy and the needs of the customer
- Work to quickly become well-versed in the engineering team's product/domain space
- Coordinate and collaborate with 3rd party vendors and QE counterparts
- Regularly assess project risks and opportunities. Leverage best practices and continually drive process improvements, but work creatively to drive execution and simplification
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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