Senior Frontend Engineer, Rainforest QA
Exlcuding France
Manual and automated software testing platform
Job no longer available
Manual and automated software testing platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Exlcuding France
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make achieving quality easy by empowering everyone to own quality and to deliver results that are meaningful.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in Javascript and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem
- Extensive experience in React (or equivalent framework / libraries) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem
- Experience in writing and maintaining CSS for large projects
- Enthusiasm with building web applications using modern tools like ES7, React, Redux, CSS Modules, Flow, and Webpack - amongst others
- Practical experience of working on a Ruby on Rails codebase
- Even though this position is mainly frontend focused, we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make backend or infrastructure changes when the situation calls for it
- Professional experience in engineering SaaS products
- Experience leading projects with teams
- An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship
- Excitement to learn
- Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback
- Happy to review code and have your code reviewed
- Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)
- Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders
What the job involves
- Work on the Rainforest QA dashboard, our single page application where users manage their test suite, configure test runs, review results and set up their account
- Work on our tester application, where our crowd of testers connect to our virtual machine infrastructure to conduct tests and submit their results
- Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer
- Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features
- Lead projects to implement those features
- Help other team members to achieve their goals
- Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems
- Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs
- Write unit and integration tests (using our own product!) to ship high quality software
Our take
Quality assurance (QA) is essential to maintain the longevity of a product or service, but the process can be difficult for software-based startups. Software QA is a time-consuming process that requires a vast amount of resources, data, and staff, which new businesses often struggle to access.
Rainforest QA provides a platform for AI-human hybrid quality assurance to enable software developers to release new features at a rapid rate. Users must enter information into the system regarding what they need testing, and Rainforest QA employs crowdsourced human tests from Amazon's Mechanical Turk to optimize testing capacity. These testing processes are then learned through machine learning, allowing the testing process to be automative in the future.
The most interesting thing about the company is its approach to automation. Many startups are trying to replace human testing with AI from the beginning, but Rainforest QA recognizes that this is simply not practical for new and previously untested features. By using AI to record key-presses and clicks, the software can then automate what is essentially a human testing process.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2018
$25m
SERIES B
Feb 2016
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.3m
Company benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees, 75% for dependents
- Unlimited paid time-off (PTO)
- Allowance for lunches, remote office supplies and learning and development
- Company off-sites in exciting destinations around the world (previously held in Spain, Malaysia, Japan, Hungary)
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave and 8 weeks of paid leave for supporting parents
- 401k program
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Fred Stevens-Smith
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Warwick, worked as CTO of Group For and Song For for a combined 2 years. Co-founded Rainforest QA as CEO in October 2011.
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