QA Automation Engineer

Job Description

At CDD we believe in the power of end-to-end tests. We currently have over 70,000 lines of browser-based tests, primarily implemented in Capybara and RSpec. With such a large test suite, we often encounter flaky, inconsistent test failures. We are looking for someone to work with the development team and product manager to make our test suite more reliable and valuable.

Work remotely or at the CDD headquarters in Burlingame, California.

• Write helpers or Cucumber step definitions that allow new tests to be written succinctly and consistently.
• Work with the development team to upgrade and improve the tools and libraries used for automated testing.
• Debug sporadic test failures to determine whether they are caused by an infrastructure issue, a test problem, or an application bug.
• Monitor test runs to gather metrics on failing tests.
• Port older tests to new frameworks as needed.
• Write new tests in consultation with the product manager.
• Anywhere that helps make tests easier to write, faster to run, easier to debug, less likely to fail inconsistently, or more likely to catch defects.

You should have significant experience writing and maintaining browser-based tests.

Experience in the following is not required but would be a plus:

• Ruby on Rails
• React
• (My)
  SQL
• Git Hub Actions
• Docker
• Domain experience in biology or chemistry

Remote or onsite at the CDD headquarters in Burlingame, California.

Full-time, permanent.

United States.