The Role

StackHawk’s Engineering team is seeking an experienced Test Automation Engineer to help improve our software quality. In this role, you will take the lead in defining our test automation practices, evangelizing quality practices throughout the software engineering team, and developing test frameworks and test plans to ensure the high quality software delivery. As a key member of the small and growing StackHawk engineering team, you’ll work closely with software engineers to champion quality practices, improve our approach to test automation, and lay the foundation that will help us scale our team and business to meet the demands of future growth. This early position will be instrumental in shaping engineering culture and promoting StackHawk’s goal of identifying and remediating app vulnerabilities in the CI/CD pipeline and empowering software engineers to take control of their application security.

What You’ll Do

• Assess our software quality practices and develop a plan to improve them through automation
• Work with software engineers, making key technology decisions
• Help set standards around automation tooling and best practices for the engineering teams
• Lead the charge for quality in the software development lifecycle
• Build out test automation frameworks to deliver high quality software at high velocity
• Lead by example in authoring test plans and writing automated tests
• Develop reusable patterns that engineers can adopt and repeat
• Mentor engineers on how to adopt a quality mindset and build test suites
• Learn about cloud infrastructure and DevOps
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in Test Automation or SDET roles
• You see yourself as a developer who focuses on test automation instead of a traditional QA or manual tester
• Ability to write code in several languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Java
• Experience implementing test frameworks and writing automation to test complex scenarios
• Experience advising engineering teams on best practices around testing and quality
• Experience testing modern front-end applications, using technologies such as React, TypeScript, Jest and Enzyme
• Experience testing modern back-end services, such as microservices architectures and API-driven applications. Familiar with Java, JVM languages and Gradle.
• Familiarity and some hands-on experience with cloud-computing environments, such as AWS
• Experience with automated build and deployment tools such as Jenkins or TravisCI
• Some knowledge and interest in learning about cloud infrastructure 
• Obsessive about automation
• Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals
• Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in
• Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others
• Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active
• Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals.