Senior Software Test Engineer, Coursera
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Online learning platform
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Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of testing experience, ideally testing web applications
- 7+ years working directly with product teams in an agile environment
- 6+ years of experience in UI and API automation
- 6+ years of experience working with CI/CD build pipeline with a focus on test automation (Github actions, Circleci, Kubernetes)
- Experience with development and maintenance of test automation tools using popular open source technologies(Puppeteer, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium)
Desirable
- Previous startup experience and testing in an Agile development life cycle is a plus
- Experience with API testing frameworks (Postman, REST-assured, Pact)
- Programming or scripting language proficiency (JavaScript, Java, Python)
- Experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Test Engineer (Test Infrastructure and Tooling) at Coursera, you’ll play a key role in helping teams produce high-quality software for millions of learners across the world
- Actively seeking out opportunities for test coverage, infrastructure, and framework improvements, you’ll be an enabling force; allowing developers to deliver value to our customers quickly and safely
- You’ll work closely with Infrastructure, and SRE teams to optimize build and test pipelines for speed, coverage, and reliability
- Collaborating with Engineering leaders and fellow Test Engineers, you’ll help define effective test strategies and process improvements to help quality at Coursera scale
- Build software and solutions that empower Engineering teams to solve problems and deliver high-quality software
- Research and identify solutions and lead large-scale test automation initiatives
- Monitor test environments and provide support when errors and incidents occur
- Contribute to e2e test strategy, analyze requirements, build test plans, and design test cases for new features, integrations (regression, performance, load)
- Lead quality initiatives of one or more teams to ensure higher bar of quality
- Actively seek out areas for improvement in our tech stack and find creative ways to break our product and systems
- Use quality metrics and performance metrics to drive change and improve quality
Our take
Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng in 2012 with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world. It partners with universities and other educational institutions to deliver online courses to 40 million students, covering subjects like technology, business, science, and even autonomous cars.
Coursera sees itself as helping people get ready for the next wave of technological advancement. It is preparing individuals, companies, and governments to meet that challenge head-on and turn this disruption into opportunity. To help achieve this, it also has specific product offerings for the corporate market, as well as for governments and nonprofits.
The model of online courses that anyone can attend is very scalable, making Coursera appealing to investors, especially when the online education market is expected to be worth $20bn+ by 2023. Further, it received B Corp certification in February 2021, propelling its efforts to reduce barriers to high quality education.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2020
$130m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$103m
SERIES E
Total funding: $443.1m
Company benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Ng
(Co-Founder & Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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