Senior QA Engineer

Posit is seeking a Sr. QA Engineer with solid leadership, analysis, and automated test case creation experience. The team you will be working with builds IDEs for Data Scientists.  We will continue our focus of creating a delightful user experience for our Data Science community that is focussed on both the R and Python languages.  

You will be working on a team that has been in the progress of building features for our users over the last 9-12 months.  We are looking for a Sr. QA Engineer who can help coordinate our team’s tasks while also being able to contribute in our day to day work.  

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

What you’ll own:

• Define manual and automated test strategies and Definition of Done for projects. The team you will own quality for handles many distinct features and needs a champion of quality for each one. You will drive your team to 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.
• As a Sr. Quality Engineer for the team you will own the overall coordination  and communication of your day to day work.
• Working closely with QA and Engineering leadership to ensure we have the correct process and strategy for our day to day work. 

• Create, maintain and enhance automated test suites, 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.
• 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)
• Build for the future of automated tests and infrastructure

What you’ll teach:

• Best practices for 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
• Ability to communicate across teams and stakeholders.  You will be working with your QA team, Engineers, Engineering leadership, and outside stakeholders.

What you’ll learn:

• An appreciation for data science workflows
• A deeper understanding of IDE and environments needed
• New skills related to data science patterns and best practices

You have QA Skills:

• The desire to help other teams, and work with them daily in a highly collaborative environment
• Experience in the Python language
• Familiarity the R Language  
• Experience web based interfaces and IDE applications
• 5+ years of writing automated tests. 
• Able to write and understand tests in Typescript, Mocha and  Python.
• 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
• Experience writingSQL queries to verify data
• 6+ years of professional experience in software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering

Nice to have: 

• Experience with Data Science and Python user persona
• Data mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources
• Carrying out preprocessing of structured and unstructured data

Within one month, you will…

• Get to know everyone on the product team and become familiar with our current. software development practices.
• Work through our onboarding guide and get familiar with our products.
• Verify, validate and build test automation for release work.

Within three months, you will…

• Participate in feature planning and provide feedback.
• Feel comfortable navigating the codebase and understand how things fit together.
• Worked with the QA team to ensure you have the test automation architecture needed to support your team’s needs.
• Established a mentor relationship with your teammates 
• Own your teams release coordination

Within twelve months, you will…

• Plan features and drive their development.
• Share your expertise and insights with team members, contributing to the collective knowledge and skill set of the engineering team.
• Point to parts of the products that you have significantly contributed to.