Senior QA Engineer, Posit

• The desire to help other teams, and work with them daily in a highly collaborative environment
• Experience in the Python language
• Familiarity with the R Language
• Experience with web based interfaces, IDE applications, and Workbench tools
• 5+ years of writing automated tests
• Able to write and understand tests in Python (Playwright and Selenium preferred)
• Experience creating high-level test strategies for multiple products
• Curiosity and a willingness to learn new technologies
• A humble, collaborative approach to producing high-quality software
• Experience writing SQL queries to verify data

Desirable

• The Workbench team builds our professional server product, which serves data science IDE sessions to enterprise users and scales data science tools across large clusters
• We are looking for a Sr. QA Engineer who can help coordinate our team’s tasks while also being able to contribute in our day to day work
• Define test strategies, automation plans, and Definition of Done for projects. The team you will own quality for handles many distinct features and needs a champion of quality for each one
• You will drive your team to determine what needs to be tested and automated, define regression and validation requirements, solicit feedback from stakeholders, and document the test processes for the rest of the team
• As a Sr. Quality Engineer for the team you will own the overall coordination and communication of your day to day work
• Working closely with QA and Engineering leadership to ensure we have the correct process and strategy for our day to day work
• Create, maintain and enhance automated test suites, Depending on the project, these automated tests could be end-to-end, API, or load and performance
• It is critical for the team to have automated tests and a long-term automation strategy, and we would love to hear from you how best to accomplish that
• Domain expertise, over time. QA engineers work heavily with other teams and often act as a connective “glue” between teams
• To be effective, you will need to learn from these other teams. This will include learning about the Posit products and what is most needed for the projects we support
• User advocacy for new features and enhancements to products and projects
• Collaborate with the developers and other stakeholders to make sure we are building the right things, and building quality products
• Collaborate with other QA Engineers to coordinate test coverage, assess risk holistically, and mentor others in areas where you have expertise (as they will for you)
• Build for the future of automated tests and infrastructure
• What you’ll teach:
• Best practices for test automation best practices, helping to create repeatable and maintainable automation patterns for others to follow easily
• A quality mindset across the team. Everyone on the team owns quality, but QA should help set the tone of user advocacy
• Ability to communicate across teams and stakeholders. You will be working with your QA team, Engineers, Engineering leadership, and outside stakeholders
• Within one month, you will…
• Get to know everyone on the product team and become familiar with our current. software development practices
• Work through our onboarding guide and get familiar with our products
• Verify, validate and build test automation for release work
• Within three months, you will…
• Participate in feature planning and provide feedback
• Feel comfortable navigating the codebase and understand how things fit together
• Worked with the QA team to ensure you have the test automation architecture needed to support your team’s needs
• Established a mentor relationship with your teammates
• Own your teams release coordination
• Within twelve months, you will…
• Plan features and drive their development
• Share your expertise and insights with team members, contributing to the collective knowledge and skill set of the engineering team
• Point to parts of the products that you have significantly contributed to