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 Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, CI/CD, Git, & Peer Reviews
Working experience with test automation tools, such as Playwright and Selenium
Flexibility and creativity in handling multiple activities and competing priorities
Self-motivated, driven, results-oriented
Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to promote collaboration within and across teams
Strong, effective and persuasive communications at all levels of management in both written and verbal form
Ability to adapt, plan, and organize in a constantly changing environment
Must be proactive, meticulous, organized and detail oriented
Ability to meet challenging deadlines

Bonus points:

Functional programming experience within a variety of frameworks and languages
Strong working knowledge of testing across applications written in React, React Native, Kotlin/Swift, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, & Node.js
Working experience with API and system level testing, including unit testing
Working experience in performance & load testing, such as Blazemeter
Working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and all aspects of testing using containers
Working experience with synthetic monitoring tools

The base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $174,000 per year

2024 Benefits for Full-Time, Regular Employees:

Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision:
Employee - employer paid premium 100%
Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
Mental Health benefits:
Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
Employee Training
Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
Supplemental, voluntary benefits
Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
Accident Insurance
Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
Pet Insurance
Family planning/fertility
Identity theft protection
Legal access to a network of attorneys
Paid parental leave