Senior Test Automation Engineer, Onebrief

• You’re an experienced quality engineer who knows how to break stuff — a thoughtful meticulous professional who brings discipline and craftsmanship to the pursuit of making resilient well-tested software.
• You love working directly with designers and software engineers to develop and share patterns and practices that ensure the products you build and release as a team meet the highest standards.
• You are also an effective agent of change and an outstanding communicator
• Knowledge of industry-standard quality engineering practices, along with solid opinions on when it’s OK to break the rules / dispense with conventional wisdom
• 3+ years of experience writing test automation at the unit and integration layer of the pyramid for a React-based or React-like web application using any of the following:
• Mocha
• Jest
• Cypress
• Playwright
• Creatively implementing shift left methodologies that demonstratively led to higher code quality
• Proven ability to mentor engineers in best practices around quality assurance practices in general and/or test automation specifically
• 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 a low ego
• You communicate frankly, clearly, and succinctly
• You thrive as a self-starter, embracing autonomy and ambiguity
• You are a U.S. citizen

Desirable

• As a quality champion, 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 rabbit-holes and potential problems in areas like performance, security, usability, and unintended cascading breakage in adjacent areas — before code is written
• Developing test plans, quality-related procedures (like bug bashes, defect triage, etc.), and documentation that support developers as they build new features
• Writing automated tests at multiple layers of the pyramid (unit, integration, e2e) with the goal of always shifting defect detection as far left as possible
• Coordinating with other teams to communicate how your teams’ work will impact their work — before it is merged
• Conducting exploratory testing and root cause analysis as needed, and mentoring others in this skill
• Exercising excellent judgement to identify and negotiate quality trade-offs that will inevitably arise in a software development environment that’s highly responsive to customer demand
• Working with your fellow engineers to develop first class quality metrics that align with overall quality strategy, with a focus on monitoring and observability