Hi there,
I’m Mauri, TestGorilla’s Engineering Manager. We’re a fast-growing HR tech startup that helps teams make better hiring decisions faster and bias-free.
Over the past year, we’ve experienced tremendous growth. More than 10,000 companies have replaced CVs with our assessments to screen candidates in an unbiased and data-driven way.
As we scale our efforts in 2024 and beyond, we’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer who’s passionate about high growth and helping people land dream jobs.
What’s in it for you?
- Helping shape a SaaS HR Tech startup in all things hiring and talent acquisition
- You get to contribute to our hiring philosophy and help shape our future
- Fully remote position with highly motivated, and values aligned colleagues from around the world
- Compensation range between €62,953 - €75,993 per annum + stock options
- Flexible hours and asynchronous environment
- Paid parental leave
- Remote working budget: €1,000 per year (pro-rata based on your start date)
- Learning & development budget: 3.5% of base compensation
The job in a nutshell:
We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our engineering department and help us bring our product to enterprise-level maturity. Your work will directly impact hundreds of thousands of users around the world.
As our user base grows, our code base grows, and our engineering capacity expands, we also need to take our quality engineering to the next level. As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to implement good practices and instil a great quality mindset within the engineering team and beyond.
Some of our goals are to improve the user experience, increase the quality of our processes and deliverables, reduce the number of defects propagated in production, improve our recovery time, and, ultimately, achieve quality at speed!
Test automation and acceptance testing will be regular duties to achieve these objectives, but obviously, there’s more! As a senior member of the engineering team, you will work together with our product team, our customer success team, as well as the different engineering teams (candidate environment, employer environment, internal tools, cloud infrastructure, etc.). You will provide leverage and support, but also guidance, working in a collaborative, talented-distributed team across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
You’ll spend time on the following:
- Thoroughly learning TestGorilla’s software
- Taking full ownership of the quality for TestGorilla systems and products. This involves participating in defining and implementing our quality strategy, infrastructure, tools, and processes
- Ideating, implementing, maintaining, and reinforcing high quality standards leveraging reusability and scalability
- Developing complex end-to-end automated testing solutions with integration in CI/CD environments
- Working regularly on functional, usability, regression, and performance testing on both frontend and backend components
- Identifying and working with metrics that track the continuous improvement of our overall quality
Here's what we are looking for:
You are inspired by our mission to put one billion people in dream jobs
- You are fully aligned with our values
- You have experience designing, implementing, running, manual and automated tests for web and distributed systems
- You have a solid understanding of quality engineering processes and good practices in software development
- You have hands-on experience with automation testing frameworks, for both frontend and backend components, such as Playwright, Mocha, Supertest, Cypress, Postman…
- You care deeply about building a world-class engineering team
- You are passionate about improving your skills and learning new technologies
- You enjoy and are good at influencing others
- You always advocate for technical excellence
- You have strong opinions loosely held, always open to change under the right circumstances
- You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills. Additionally, you know how to validate your decisions and communicate them clearly
We typically expect candidates with at least 5 years of Senior Quality Engineer experience to have the skills mentioned above.
Bonus points if…
- You have experience in Javascript and Python
- You have experience in a SaaS product based company
- You are comfortable with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, and/or Kanban
- You have a working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker
Interested?
We don’t offer rainbow glitter unicorns or dog-friendly offices (we literally don’t have an office), but we do offer real people, solid core values, and a product meant to give everyone a fair, unbiased chance at their dream jobs.
Here at TestGorilla, we eat our own dog food. We use our assessment platform to make sure we make the best hiring decisions faster and bias-free.
So if this role sounds like a good fit for you, I’d like you to take an assessment so we can get a better idea about whether you would fit the role. It’s also a great opportunity for you to get to know our product!
We encourage diverse applicants from a myriad of educational, work, and personal backgrounds to apply. We are a parent-friendly/caregiver-friendly employer who recognizes the importance of having a great life outside of work.
If you’re hired, I’ll do everything I can to help you succeed at TestGorilla and throughout the rest of your career.