Staff Quality Automation Engineer, Lokalise
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Localization platform for agile teams
Open for applications
Localization platform for agile teams
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the hassle of localization by providing tools to automate, integrate, and better manage your translations.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in test automation: Experience as a developer with proven expertise in designing and implementing test automation frameworks, preferably using modern programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript
- Advanced experience with CI/CD automation: Proficient in integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, with tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar
- Expertise in Functional and Non-functional Testing: Deep understanding of various testing types, including regression, integration, performance, and security testing
- Proficiency in API and Web Testing: Significant experience with testing RESTful APIs and web applications, using tools such as Playwright or Selenium
- Experience with contract testing: Validating third-party integrations (e.g., Shopify), ensuring reliable and consistent communication with external services
- Experience with Performance Testing Tools: Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as Artillery, JMeter, or k6
- Strong Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Leadership and Mentorship Experience: Experience leading technical teams or mentoring engineers in test automation practices
Desirable
- Exposure to Technical Leadership Roles: Proven experience in setting technical direction for teams, influencing engineering roadmaps, and driving large-scale quality initiatives
- Experience with Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and testing in cloud-native applications
- Contributions to Open Source: Active contributions to open-source testing frameworks or tools
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer in Test at Lokalise, you will play a key role in maintaining the highest quality standards for our software products and improving developer productivity
- You will architect and drive the implementation of innovative testing solutions, mentor engineers across the organization, and influence our quality strategy at the highest levels
- Your work will directly impact the reliability, scalability, productivity, and overall excellence of our products, reinforcing a culture where quality is a fundamental value shared by all
- Architect and Develop Test Frameworks: Design, build, select, and maintain test automation frameworks or leverage existing tools to meet a wide range of testing needs, including API, UI, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing
- Lead Testing Strategy: Define and implement a comprehensive testing strategy that aligns with our engineering goals and enhances our continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
- Mentor and Guide Engineers: Act as a technical leader by mentoring software engineers in best practices for testing and quality assurance, fostering a culture of shared responsibility for product quality
- Collaborate Cross-functionally: Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to identify risks early, design appropriate testing approaches, and ensure timely and effective resolution of defects
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives to enhance testing processes, tools, and methodologies, constantly seeking opportunities for automation and developer productivity gains
- Ensure Robust Documentation: Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation for testing frameworks, processes, and guidelines, ensuring clarity and consistency across the team
- Analyze and Report: Monitor, analyze, and report on test outcomes, using data to drive decisions and improve testing effectiveness
Our take
Localization can be a headache for companies shipping products to new markets, involving lengthy manual work and often highly general tools like Excel. Add to that the complexities of updating localization strategies to align with new agile software development methods, and it can prove a real hurdle for companies looking to expand their global footprint.
Lokalise allows for localization to be centralized and knitted more tightly into the development process, anticipating pernickety issues like formatting errors thrown up if translations require more space in the target language. This is a substantial development on translation-only services, but it’s becoming an industry standard also offered by competitors like RWS and Memsource.
What will help the relatively young Lokalise compete is a 2,500+ strong customer roster, which includes major enterprises like Revolut, Virgin Mobile, and Starbucks. It’s helped Lokalise cause a stir in the industry, and with global expansion on the rise across all major sectors, it should help the company continue its already impressive growth going forwards.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Employee endorsements
Flexible working
"Working remotely means we manage our energy - not our time and so I find space for everything that matters to me while giving it my all at work...."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2023
$61.7m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $117.8m
Company benefits
- Coworking allowance
- Unlimited PTO and Work-life balance
- Health insurance
- Top-notch tech equipment to work with
- Parental leave
- Personal development budget
- Stock options
- Fun & close-knit team, on- and offline meetings (off-sites)
- Wellness benefits
- 100% remote async work
- Positive Impact (carbon-neutral company)
- Mental health support
- Full-time remote work
- Company events
- Budget for home office set-up
Company values
- Be direct and kind. Put yourself in others' shoes.
- Support one another. Thrive together.
- Build competence. Keep growing.
- Take ownership. Optimize for impact.
- Aim high. Stay down to earth.
Company HQ
Camden, DE
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Leadership
Nick Ustinov
(CEO)A serial co-founder and CEO, who has filled these roles at inbox.lv, Vide Infra Group, Double Coffee, Pozitel Telecom, and Roamerapp.
Petr Antropov
(CRO)Has been on the boards of Forticom (where he was also CFO), OK.RU, and Open Media Group, and served as MD at KBC Securities Ukraine. Went on to co-found Megogo.net and Roamerapp, then work in business development at Apply.
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