SDET/ Test Automation QA Engineer
SonderMind is a VC-backed digital health company redesigning behavioral health through covered and timely access, increased utilization, and data-validated quality outcomes. We are a team of Explorers, Builders, and Change Makers democratizing the complicated world of behavioral healthcare for therapists and clients alike.
How you'll make an impact
As an SDET/Test Automation QA Engineer, you will have a passion for successfully developing robust and scalable testing frameworks to continuously improve quality, reduce cycle time, and bake efficiency into our development and testing processes. You will work closely with Product and Support teams to consistently advocate for end-users by ensuring the SonderMind platform is stable and meets the functional requirements. You strive for quality releases and exceeding customer expectation
Success looks like
- Quickly integrates into the team and becomes familiar with tools, process, and culture of existing software development and testing life cycles. Tests while leveraging existing scripts and adds to and/or makes recommendations for improvement.
- Start build and implementation of go-forward test automation framework(s).
- Well versed in our go-forward automated testing strategy. Fully understands system architecture, business functionality and technical dependencies. The test automation framework is stable, reusable, and positively growing code coverage.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain automated and manual test cases
- Assist with any manual testing needs on the team
- Participate and have input on QA direction discussions; own the QA processes on the team
- Accountable for testing all stories coming through the team
- Work with other SDET's and Manual testers to ensure cross team projects are thoroughly tested
- Work closely with engineers to understand the underlying architecture in the code to create more robust tests.
What you'll bring with you
Key Competencies
- Critical Thinking: Looks for underlying causes or thinks through the consequences of different courses of action. Creates solutions to problems using novel methods and processes.
- Communication: Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly and succinctly, adjust style to fit the audience and message. Engages and actively listens to others.
- Integrity: Behaves and express oneself in an open and honest manner. Is consistent in words and actions, honest about capabilities, admit mistakes, and creates the space for others to contribute
- High Standards: Freedom from errors and mistakes and the ability to consistently meet objectives. Communicates effectively to ensure time is spent working on the right things in the right ways with the right people; maintaining optimal work output.
- Building Relationships: Builds genuine relationships of trust and loyalty.
Required Experience
- 4+ years of software test development experience with proficiency in Javascript, Typescript, or similar
- Experience in Unix scripting or equivalent command line tools
- Experience with designing and developing full stack test automation ( Protractor, Cypress, etc)
- Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and tools (CircleCI, Jenkins)
- Testing and automating RESTful API service calls via tools such as Postman, SOAPUI, or similar
- Ability to lead creation and maintenance of advanced suites of automated scripts for the full stack
- Source control, Git experience
- Experience in communicating quality reporting and metrics of test execution results, including use in visibility dashboards
- Strong understanding of SDLC processes specifically agile scrum methodology
Preferred Experience
- Experience with configuring build tools, CI/CD pipelines
- Test case management systems, including creating integrations with one
- Load & Performance Test Engineering
- Demonstrated experience in designing automation creating modular test scripts for reuse
- Coding or working familiarity with any of the following technologies: Angular, AWS Deployment , ElasticSearch, Unit testing RSpec, Jasmine or similar experience, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis
What we value
- Transparency: We say what we mean and mean what we say
- Bucketworthiness: We can be relied upon to not let our bucket leak
- Ownership: We take initiative to act before being asked
- Courage: We move fast, take calculated risks and (sometimes) fail
- Empathy: We treat others with respect and assume their best intentions
- Passion: We loosely hold strong opinions, debate and then commit forcefully
Our Benefits
The anticipated salary range for this role is $85,000- $100,000 This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan. Actual compensation is based commensurate with qualifications and experience.
This role can sit in the following locations: Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Madison, WI, Nashville, TN Pittsburgh, PA, Raleigh- Durham, NC.
As a leader in redesigning behavioral health we are walking the walk with our employee benefits package. We focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their life with both mental and physical aspects in mind.
Our benefits include:
- Therapy coverage benefits to enable our employees to get the care they need
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet your needs including HSA and FSA options.
- A flexible PTO policy, 8 holidays, end of year company shut down
- Employer-paid disability & AD&D to cover life's unexpected - not only that, we cover the difference in salary for up to Eight weeks of short-term disability leave
- Eight weeks of paid parental leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition )
- Competitive market salary, up-to 4% salary company match on 401K, professional development and advancement opportunities as we rapidly scale, and so much more.
Mental wellness impacts people of every community. At SonderMind, building and supporting a diverse workforce is foundational to our goal to redesign behavioral healthcare to be more approachable and accessible. SonderMind is a committed equal opportunity employer and provides a workplace that will not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.