Help build an engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across the company.
Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for platform services including authentication, authorization, search, notifications, and audit logging systems.
Design and implement automated testing frameworks for backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
Make frequent contributions to our test automation harness as part of the continuous integration pipeline.
Design test cases and execute various tests, including functional, integration, end-to-end, security, load, and performance testing for high-availability platform services.
Build tools and frameworks to support automated testing, chaos engineering, and performance testing of our platform infrastructure.
Develop and maintain security testing practices for authentication and authorization systems, including penetration testing and vulnerability assessments.
Interact and participate in meetings with key stakeholders, team members, and internal users regarding timelines and technical issues.
Mentor and guide other Quality Engineering team members and technical and non-technical staff members.
Collaborate with SRE and DevOps teams to implement observability and monitoring for test environments.
Requirements
5+ years of software testing experience with at least 3 years focused on backend services, distributed systems, or platform infrastructure.
Functional testing experience, including defining test strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting.
Expertise with automated testing tools and strategies for backend services and APIs.
Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Go or JavaScript/TypeScript.
Deep understanding of testing authentication and authorization systems (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML, RBAC, etc.).
Experience testing distributed systems, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with API testing frameworks and tools (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
Recent exposure to a startup environment building and contributing to a test framework, including automation, from the ground up.
Solid understanding of various test frameworks and automation of backend systems and microservices.
Experience with Continuous Integration/Delivery concepts and tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
Experience with performance engineering, profiling, and load testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, or Locust.
Experience working with globally distributed teams.
Demonstrated skills using code repositories and Atlassian tools (GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools).