Staff Quality Engineer (Remote)

Staff Quality Engineer (Remote)

Overview:

As the Staff Quality Engineer at Weedmaps, you will be responsible for working cross-functionally promoting quality principles throughout the organization. The Staff QE will play a major role in delivering quality releases in an agile environment while meeting company standards of excellence and customers expectations. The Staff QE is also expected to lead quality optimizations to improve uptime, quality, and speed of releases in highly complex, integrated services ecosystems. Staff QE is also responsible for building a strong community of testing within Weedmaps Engineering (and the broader Technology/Product/Design organization) by promoting agile testing methodologies, tooling, and practices.

The impact you'll make:

• Working cross-functionally with multiple teams within designing the end-to-end test solution in CI/CD for existing integrations
• Working with Engineering, TechOps, and Product implementing multiple levels of coverage for platform as a whole minimizing the risk of outages 
• Optimizing existing delivery pipeline by further integrating existing regression and smoke tests in CI/CD
• Integration of performance tests in CI/CD
• Proposing and architecting further optimization to speed/quality of test executions
• Work x-functionally to lead implementation, optimization, and measurement of best practices in prevention, detection, and remediation of quality issues
• Implement quality dashboards for KPIs, SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, etc
• Work with Engineering on synthetic monitoring solutions 
• Lead continuous improvements of QE standards, processes, and procedures
• Promote and continuously improve test automation effectiveness in CI/CD environment 
• Plan for future QE department operational and procedural improvements
• Keep abreast of technical trends with regards to Software Quality Engineering, and evaluate their value for improving our software delivery process
• Influence quality and productivity improvements through involvement in the development of new and improved tools, procedures, process innovations, training
• Coach and train others, actively participate in upleveling QE technical skills
• Determine risk/benefits scenarios to make data driven decisions

What you've accomplished:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, or information technology, or computer science.  
• Requires minimum 10-15 years of experience as an SDET or similar quality automation role, with an emphasis on programming
• Thorough understanding of the software development process and all aspects of Agile Quality Engineering and a proven record of making impact in delivering quality at scale
• Proven experience with designing and coding tools, frameworks, wide-reaching solutions
• Experience with successful agile techniques, including: User Stories, TDD, Continuous …