Sr. Developer - Quality Engineering

USA TODAY Co., Inc. is a diversified media company dedicated to empowering and enriching communities. They are seeking a Senior Developer - Quality Engineering to build and maintain custom tools and solutions that support product and engineering teams, ensuring high-quality digital journalism and media delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Propose, build, and maintain QE tools that are modular and can be used across many projects
• Collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering teams to assess quality strategies and find solutions to embed quality into every stage of the development lifecycle
• Integrate automated tools and tests into CI/CD pipelines to support rapid deployment cycles and minimize production defects
• Ensure test coverage for critical workflows, including content ingestion, publishing, personalization, and user engagement features
• Champion testability and observability, especially in high-traffic, high-availability environments
• Mentor teams on automation best practices, helping shift testing left and improve developer ownership of quality
• Analyze test results and production metrics to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of development experience
• Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, with exposure to other programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Ruby)
• Experience working with containers and building configuration files (e.g. Docker)
• Experience deploying and maintaining serverless projects (using tools like Google Cloud Run/Functions, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience working with CI tools and building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience ingesting, storing, organizing, displaying, and analyzing data (with tools like Google Cloud BigQuery, Data Studio, SQL, and Grafana)
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• Experience architecting or designing multi-step software systems or pipelines (especially using Cloud tools)
• Exposure to and experience with test automation tools is a plus (e.g., Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit)