Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Qualia
Digital real estate closing platform and settlement software
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Digital real estate closing platform and settlement software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
Qualia's mission is to transform home buying and selling into a quick, simple, and secure experience.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 4+ years of experience in test automation, with a strong focus on UI testing and Cypress test automation
- Cypress Expertise: Extensive experience with Cypress, including writing, maintaining, and debugging automated UI tests. Comfort with expanding the Cypress framework and optimizing tests for speed and reliability
- CI/CD Familiarity: Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience with integrating automated tests into the pipeline. Able to triage test execution failures in CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions) and collaborate with the Infrastructure team to resolve issues
- Test Maintenance: Proven experience in maintaining and triaging automated tests, with an emphasis on ensuring test suite stability and reliability
- Mentorship & Collaboration: Strong communication and mentoring skills, with a passion for teaching and enabling others, especially the QA team, in best practices for test automation
- UI Automation: In-depth knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and the challenges of UI test automation in modern web applications
- Analytical Skills: Strong problem-solving skills to diagnose and address issues with failing tests and ensure the health of the test suite
- Agile Experience: Comfortable working in an Agile development environment, collaborating in sprints with a focus on continuous improvement and quality
- Test Reporting Tools: Familiarity with Cypress Dashboard, GitHub, and/or Jira integrations for test reporting, analysis, and metrics
- SaaS or Real Estate / FinTech: Experience with SaaS applications or the real estate or financial technology spaces is a plus
- Test Management Tools: Experience with Testrail or other test management tools for managing test cases and tracking test results
- While this role is based in San Francisco, California, we're open to exploring remote possibilities for qualified candidates
What the job involves
- As the first SDET hire at Qualia focusing on UI automation, you will be responsible for maintaining and expanding our automated UI tests written in Cypress
- While the test framework is already in place, you will take ownership of the existing suite, ensuring that it remains stable, efficient, and scalable
- You’ll also be tasked with triaging failing tests, managing test pipelines within our CI/CD process, and enabling the QA team to independently manage and maintain the test suite going forward
- Additionally, you will be involved in test reporting and implementing best practices for test writing, maintenance, and troubleshooting across the engineering team
- Your work will help maintain the quality and reliability of Qualia’s web applications, and you’ll have a direct impact on improving the overall product experience
- Test Writing & Maintenance: Write and maintain Cypress-based automated UI tests to ensure full coverage of Qualia’s web applications
- Test Triage & Troubleshooting: Actively monitor and triage failing tests, investigating potential issues and collaborating with developers to resolve root causes quickly
- CI/CD Collaboration: Monitor and maintain the test pipelines, ensuring smooth and reliable execution of automated UI tests. Triage any issues that arise, and work closely with the Infrastructure team to ensure fast resolution of test-related failures within the CI/CD process
- Enablement & Mentorship: Empower the QA team to take ownership of the UI test suite by mentoring them on test writing, best practices, troubleshooting, and the Cypress framework. Help the team become self-sufficient in managing automated UI tests
- Test Reporting & Metrics: Use the Cypress Dashboard or equivalent for test reporting and metrics. Provide clear visibility into test results and trends to stakeholders
- Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives to improve the UI automation framework for better test performance, reliability, and maintainability. Introduce improvements in test strategy and automation tooling where necessary
Our take
For real estate agents, closing on a property involves a complex set of multiple transactions and endless paperwork, which can risk confusing and frustrating the buyer. The real estate industry has been slow to innovate and leverage technology to create a more streamlined experience, compared to industries such as retail.
Qualia is the first end-to-end online real estate closing platform. Its suite of products brings together homebuyers and sellers, lenders, title & escrow agents, and real estate agents onto one secure, remote platform. Since launching in 2015, over half a million real estate professionals have used Qualia for their clients.
Although fully digital real estate closings still account for only a small fraction of overall closings, the company is focused on enabling all existing participants to digitize — and eventually the entire industry. According to Qualia, it’s the only way to get enough scale to actually move the process forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2021
$40m
LATE VC
Dec 2020
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $211.6m
Company benefits
- Commuter benefits
- 401k plan
- Flexible paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Company stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Our core values are based on the principle of having all employees act as leaders
- Leaders bring people together and are respectful of all people
- Leaders strive for excellence and have a bias to action
- Leaders are curious and seek out the best problem solving frameworks
- Leaders are customer obsessed and act like owners
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Nate Baker
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previous CEO and Founder of Nebu, and Founder and Board Member of Fractal Software.
Lucas Hansen
(Co-Founder)Previous Undergraduate Researcher at Rosenberg Lab and graduate of Stanford University.
Joel Gottsegen
(Co-Founder)Experience as a Software Engineer at Mosaic, and Data Scientist at DataFox Intelligence, Inc. Previous columnist for The Stanford Daily Newspaper. Founder of Petty Karma.
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