Senior Software QA Engineer, Platform

Posit is seeking a QA engineer with strong automation and environment provisioning skills to join our Platform Team. The team works across all Posit products, developing shared components and enabling customers to use the products better. This is a high-leverage team that can impact many people and customers.

You’ll be working on a small team that is currently focused on building a new metrics aggregation product, written using Go and OpenTelemetry, to help customers and internal teams better understand how our products work. The team has also spent time working on AWS licensing, and in the future will expand further, which may include other parts of licensing, auth, and cross-team standards.

This role offers a great opportunity to drive the quality of our software through careful testing and thoughtful analysis. If you are an optimizer who is passionate about improving existing systems, learning new technology, and working with amazing people, this job could be for you.

What you’ll own:

• Define test strategies and Definition of Done for projects. The Platform team handles many distinct projects and needs a champion of quality for each one. You will 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.
• Participate in the entire lifecycle of the projects from grooming through support. The Platform team works together to ensure we deliver and maintain high-quality software.
• Create, maintain and enhance automated test infrastructure, making automated tests easier to author, faster to run, more resilient, and broader in coverage. 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.
• Develop infrastructure as code to deploy reproducible test environments in AWS, Kubernetes, docker, etc.
• 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

What you’ll help with:

• Collaborate with the developers and other stakeholders to make sure we are building the right things, and building things right
• 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)
• Plan for the future of automated tests and infrastructure

What you’ll teach:

• 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
• Industry trends and new technologies related to testing and automation

What you’ll learn:

• An appreciation for data science workflows
• A deeper understanding of cloud infrastructure and DevOps for build / test / deployment
• New skills related to data science patterns and best practices

• The desire to help other teams, and work with them daily in a highly collaborative environment
• Experience provisioning Linux test servers; familiarity with Linux tools and environments
• Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with, or willingness to learn and write, infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform, Cloudformation, or similar) 
• Experience writing automated tests, in any language . Preferred Selenium or Cypress.
• 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
• Knowledge of SQL
• 5+ years of professional experience in software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering

About us:

• We welcome all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms.
• We prioritize giving ourselves “focus time” to get deep work done. We minimize meetings and attempt to operate asynchronously.
• We are a learning organization and take mentorship and career growth seriously. We hope to learn from you and we anticipate that you will also deepen your skills, influence, and leadership as a result of working at Posit.
• We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software.  We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now.

Notable:

We offer competitive compensation with extensive human-first, people-focused benefits to prioritize your personal and financial well-being.

• 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are covered for employees and their families! Fertility and gender-affirming healthcare is included in all of our plans.
• Supplemental mental health and wellness benefits are available via Ginger even if you don’t opt in to our insurance plans, including Ginger for teen family members.
• Posit's gender-neutral paid parental leave policy covers all new parents, including foster and adoptive parents.
• Our 401k matches up to 50% of the maximum employee contribution after six months.
• An annual profit-sharing bonus for employees recognizes our team’s contributions to company performance across the year.
• We are a 100% distributed team. You are also welcome to come into our Seattle or Boston offices. 
  • Our remote office allowance includes: 
    • $1000 home office allowance plus an additional $800 for equipment
    • Up to $400 monthly reimbursement for coworking space rental
• We provide a flexible environment with a generous vacation policy that encourages a minimum of four weeks PTO per year plus 13 paid company holidays.

Posit is committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.

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