Posit is seeking a QA engineer with strong automation and environment provisioning skills to join our Platform Team. The team works across all Posit products, developing shared components, building integrations with providers, and enabling customers to use the products better. This is a high-leverage team that can impact many people and customers.
You’ll be part of a small team working on cloud deployments to AWS, Azure, and GCP. This team also focuses on integration of Posit Team products with different partners, such as Databricks and Snowflake.
This role offers a great opportunity to drive the quality of our software through careful testing and thoughtful analysis. If you are an optimizer who is passionate about improving existing systems, learning 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 work with handles many distinct projects and needs a champion of quality for each one. You will 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.
- Participate in the entire lifecycle of the projects from grooming through support. The Platform team works together to ensure we deliver and maintain high-quality software.
- Create, maintain, and enhance automated test infrastructure, making automated tests easier to author, faster to run, more resilient, and broader in coverage. 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 an automation-first strategy, and we would love to hear from you how best to accomplish that.
- Develop infrastructure as code to deploy reproducible test environments in AWS, Kubernetes, docker, etc.
- 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:
- 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
- Industry trends and new technologies related to testing and automation
What you’ll learn:
- An appreciation for data science workflows
- A deeper understanding of cloud infrastructure and DevOps for build / test / deployment
- New skills related to data science patterns and best practices
- How our Posit products integrate with our partner products and cloud environments.
You have QA skills:
- The desire to help other teams, and work with them daily in a highly collaborative environment
- Experience provisioning Linux test servers and containers; familiarity with Linux tools and environments
- Experience with at least one of the major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with Databricks or Snowflake is a plus.
- Experience with, or willingness to learn and write, infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform, Cloudformation, or similar)
- Experience writing automated tests, in any language.
- 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
- Knowledge of SQL
- 5+ years of professional experience in software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering
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.
- Create test plan for the product features
- Verify and validate test cases for the product.
Within three months, you will…
- Participate in feature planning and provide feedback.
- Feel comfortable navigating the codebase and understand how things fit together.
- Work with the team to ensure test automation architecture supports your teams needs.
- Establish a mentor relationship with your teammates
- Own your team’s release coordination
Within twelve months, you will…
- Own QA for features and drive their testing and automation..
- 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.
