Senior Software Quality Engineer, Vivid Seats
$100-130k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Open for applications
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$100-130k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Vivid Seats' mission is to empower every fan to get to the live events that shape their most vivid moments and memories.
Role
Who you are
- Experience and knowledge of software quality principles for web, backend and/or mobile applications
- Ability to estimate testing effort - analyzing, testing, and evaluating business requirements
- Coding experience with Object-Oriented languages such as Java, OR, JavaScript, and Typescript
- Experence with automation frameworks such as Mabl, Selenium, Cucumber, or REST-assured is preferred
- Knowledge of continuous integration principles and tools is preferred
- Excellent communication and prioritization skills with proven ability to multi-task
- A passion for learning new technologies and building positive working relationships with development engineers
- An intrinsic desire for the constant improvement in the quality of products and uncovering hard to find scenarios
- Attention to detail, curiosity, and customer focused mindset
What the job involves
- As a Senoir Quality Engineer supporting our Vegas.com team, you’ll champion quality for our platform and products to provide the best possible experience for our users and partners
- You will identify, analyze and document issues within our software applications following an established QA methodology
- Evaluates and tests new software applications according to business and functional requirements
- Perform API level testing, system testing, black box functional testing, UI testing, and white box testing
- Applies test methodology, engineering and product knowledge in the design of tests and testing strategies for the analysis and certification of products
- Performs quality engineering reviews of design documentation for compliance with stated requirements
- Communicates significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to management
- Prepares and presents technical and program information to team members and management
- Coordinate the activities of QA teams in the development of test plans and test cases to meet individual project objectives
- 30 days in
- Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful
- Learn how vegas.com operates and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers
- Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and values
- Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and Quality process
- 90 days in
- Enhance our approaches, methods, or technologies to mitigate risks and improve efficiencies
- Apply technical learnings that align with the product roadmap to overall department and organizational goals that drive company initiatives forward
- Develop and lead initiatives for your stakeholders that enhance process, drive innovation, and build on vegas.com values
- Build, maintain, and leverage internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- 180 days in
- Design and implement process improvements that positively impacts the team
- Mentor others, playing an active role in elevating the skill sets of those you work with
- Guide the team's work so that it fits into the larger team and engineering group objectives
- Produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward
- Improve efficiency in core systems and applications managed by the team and contribute to engineering group objectives
Our take
Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats is one of the leading online ticket marketplaces. The event tickets market is one of the biggest out there, expected to reach almost $85 billion by 2027, and the company has secured its place within it with partnerships with big players like ESPN, RollingStone, and the NBA.
The company's strategy has so far been based on massive public exposure through heavy spending on digital advertising, which has brought it great success to date. Its connects millions of buyers with thousands of ticket sellers each year, covering hundreds of thousands of different events.
Vivid Seats boasts high revenues and sustained growth, and went public in 2021. Following its listing on the NASDAQ, the company has been focusing on expanding operations and broadening its tech capabilities. A recent development is the company's Vivid Picks app, which combines live event and gaming experiences to target changing trends in the events ticket space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2014
$5.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2012
$3.9m
ANGEL
Total funding: $9.7m
Company benefits
- Health, dental and vision packages: BCBS PPO, HSA and HMO plans, mental heath and telehealth programs.
- Retirement and savings programs, continuing education opportunities, and rewarding performance incentives.
- PTO, mental health days, and maternity/paternity policies.
- Company-wide town-halls, hackathons, product demos, in-office happy hours, holiday and summer events, company-sponsored sports leagues and competitions.
- Gym membership fees, wellness weeks, access to on-site treadmill desks, bike storage, fitness classes, and inspiring office spaces.
- Hybrid working arrangements at accessible office locations. Company-provided laptops, monitors, & software in-office. Room for ideas (open floorplan with plenty of meeting rooms, quiet areas, and whiteboards), and coffee. We’re talking good coffee.
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Eric Vassilatos
(Co-founder)Also Principal at Magnolia Capital and Managing Partner at SkyBox capital.
Stan Chia
(CEO)Board Director at 1871, and Board Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Former COO of GrubHub.
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