Staff Software Engineer in Test, Android

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The Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test who can work in a highly collaborative environment, design/develop tools, test frameworks, and define processes to help the teams to own and be accountable for quality. The mission of the Quality Engineering team is to enable quality in all engineering teams at Reddit by providing robust test tools and frameworks that help establish quality standards across the development pipelines.

Responsibilities: 

• Help in building an Engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across Reddit.
• Develop and evolve test automation frameworks, tools, and services.
• Analyze production issues, identify test gaps across the entire testing stack and make systemic improvements to automated testing
• Maintain test infrastructure stability in non-production environments.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Influence the entire engineering organization on unit/integration/end-to-end tests.

Required Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience as an SDET, or as a Software Engineer for Android platform
• 3+ years in Android development
• Experience in designing and building scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and services for testing mobile applications
• Experience in writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Espresso and/or, UIAutomator using Kotlin.
• Preferred experience in JetPack Compose.
• Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of Android applications
• Experience in building test frameworks and automated tests for native Mobile applications 
• Strong understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks in the workflow.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies for mobile applications releases. 
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits
• 401k Matching
• Workspace benefits for your home office
• Personal & Professional development funds
• Family Planning Support
• Flexible Vacation (please use them!) & Reddit Global Wellness Days
• 4+ months …