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Title: Lead QA Engineer
Location: New York
Type: Full-time, Remote (AMER/EMEA)
Workplace: remote
Category: QA
JobDescription:
About Us Circle is building the worlds leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments all in one place, all under their own brand. Were proud to be a fully remote company of around 150 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We strive to find exceptional talent, empower them to do their best work, and in turn, have a meaningful impact in their own lives. We dont track hours, but we manage for outcomes in an a-synchronous culture. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together for incredible company retreats in beautiful places around the world! About the role We’re looking for a Lead QA Engineer with a heavy mobile focus to join our Engineering team as we aim to make Circle the top choice for creator/brand-led communities. This role be a player-coach, leading our QA team, while also being hands-on. In a hands-on capacity, it will focus mostly on our mobile automation test framework, but will be involved in all technical aspects of QA. In a management capacity, this role will manage the QA team of three, helping to organize and coordinate work, remove blockers, support in each inidual team members growth, and more. We have a preference for candidates in North/South American (AMER), and European (EMEA) time zones.What you’ll be doing
- Drive Circles product quality cycle, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Ship often and ship with care.
- Design, develop, and implement robust test automation frameworks for Android and iOS platforms using frameworks like Appium/WebdriverIO, and support our web application using Watir (built using Ruby on Rails and React).
- Work autonomously on prioritizing and defining our QA roadmap.
- Improve the quality of our codebase and identify architectural deficiencies in your product area.
- Engage in considerate, but robust, PR reviews with Circle’s engineers.
- Lead and mentor the QA team, playing a key role in hiring and managing performance.
- Collaborate closely with Circle’s product and design leaders to deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Work closely with our engineers to create a world-class user experience and quality mindset.
What you’ll need to be successful
- Strong alignment with our values.Find our values on our career pageif you havent read up on them yet.
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at aCEFR Level C1/ILR Level 5.
- 8+ years experience working as a QA Engineer on complex mobile and web applications.
- Strong proficiency in mobile QA test frameworks. We currently use Appium for our React Native applications, but are open to new solutions.
- Familiarity with both mobile and web test automation is necessary, but a high degree of proficiency in both is not a requirement. You should be highly proficient with mobile QA automation testing, but can be less experienced with web.
- 2+ years experience with managing and mentoring direct reports(engineers/QA). You are a strong technical role model.
- Ability to coordinate/project-manage work and keep the team organized combined with proactive communication and excellent judgment.
- A desire to work in an environment which values speed of iteration and inidual autonomy, while also embracing personal accountability and the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a dynamic team.
- Motivation to understand the business and user needs, delivering impactful results.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity.
- Adaptable with the ability to change direction quickly if necessary.
- Familiar with agile software development principles.
- Strong judgement and attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions. Your judgement should inspire a high level of trust within the team
Bonus points
- Experience with Elasticsearch / Sidekiq / Kafka / GraphQL
- Previous experience working with community platforms.
- Experience working on CRM/Marketing tools, with email deliverability, or in the creator space.
- Experience at a fast-growing start-up.