Senior Test Automation Engineer, Onebrief

• You’re an experienced quality engineer who knows how to break things
• You’re thoughtful, meticulous, and bring discipline and craftsmanship to the pursuit of building resilient, well-tested software
• You love working directly with designers and engineers to develop and share patterns and practices that ensure the products you ship meet the highest standards
• You are also an effective agent of change and an excellent communicator
• We’re in the defense space, so we’re looking for someone excited about our mission, eager to contribute to a growing startup, and comfortable in a high-trust, autonomous environment where everyone has a seat at the table
• As an early member of our growing Quality team, you will make a foundational and lasting impact on both the product and the company’s trajectory
• Knowledge of industry-standard quality engineering practices, along with solid opinions on when it’s OK to break the rules or challenge conventional wisdom
• 5+ years of experience writing test automation at the integration or end-to-end layer for a React-based or React-like web application using any of the following:
• Vitest
• Postman / REST API testing
• Playwright (E2E / API)
• Experience creatively implementing shift-left methodologies that clearly improved code quality
• Proven ability to mentor engineers in best practices around quality assurance and test automation
• You are obsessed with creating value for real users
• You are ambitious, scrappy, and a creative problem-solver
• You learn quickly, work iteratively, and naturally seek collaboration
• You approach your work with integrity, intellectual honesty, and low ego
• You communicate frankly, clearly, and succinctly
• You thrive as a self-starter, embracing autonomy and ambiguity

Desirable

• We’re a fast-growing startup looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to partner with one or two Product Engineering teams and serve as a coach and mentor for quality in everything they build
• You will be involved end-to-end in new feature development, working with Product and Engineering Managers, and leading the build-out and organization of test coverage
• You will also mentor engineers on building the right automated test coverage and how to create code with a quality mindset from day one
• You will be a force multiplier, raising the bar for quality across the engineering organization and ensuring high-quality updates to a mission-critical product
• As a Quality Coach, you will hold your engineering team(s) accountable for meeting the right release quality bar in the following ways:
• Weighing in early in the dev cycle (during the design process) to identify potential problems in performance, security, usability, and cascading impacts before code is written
• Developing test plans, quality-related procedures (such as bug bashes and defect triage), and documentation to support developers as they build new features
• Writing automated tests at multiple layers of the pyramid (integration, E2E) with the goal of shifting defect detection as far left as possible
• Coordinating with other teams to communicate how your team’s work will impact theirs before merging changes
• Conducting exploratory testing and root cause analysis as needed, and mentoring others in these skills
• Exercising excellent judgment to identify and negotiate quality trade-offs in a fast-paced, customer-driven development environment
• Working with your fellow engineers to develop first-class quality metrics that align with overall quality strategy, with a focus on monitoring and observability