Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer – Test Automation, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our test automation solutions. This includes architecting the test automation capability within Blockgraph, building scripts and tools to identify bugs/defects prior to release into production and creating metrics to measure overall improvement of product/engineering health. We are looking for a developer with a strong affinity for (or is keen to learn) Testing/QA and can help implement bug/defect identification within an observability solution which will minimize manual testing and maximize automation and scalability. Your job will be to create tools which integrate within our CI/CD to help developers test their code and write E2E test cases. You will need to fully understand our product to build tests that will uncover regressions in our software. Your goal is to find the issues earlier (shift left principle) in an automated scalable fashion and minimize their impact in production.  

This role is best suited for a programmer/developer who is interested in pursuing the Test/QA function. This role will be developing internal capabilities that are focused on our testing framework and processes.  

This position is not fully remote and will require you to be in the office at least 2x/month to attend our in-person sprint planning sessions.  

We cannot offer any visa/work authorization sponsorship at this time. 

 Job Responsibilities: 

• Write a portion of the automation scripts “hands on keyboard” to improve the product quality 
• Build automation testing and scripts for infrastructure and platform 
• Drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve the performance, availability, and scalability of the platform 
• Lead the conversion of manual ad-hoc processes to a fully automated scalable solution 
• Develop test plans including leading test plan reviews with engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Participate in product design reviews to contribute to product design, testability and implementation. 
• Automate and improve testing within CI/CD through implementation of observability 
• Define the test framework, test preconditions and other test control and reporting functions to enable others to test functionality. 
• Develop observability into Test Automation Team performance and impact towards continued stability improvement of the product. 
• Provide technical mentorship on Test/QA for more junior members 

 Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field. 
• 3+ years of relevant experience in software engineering
  • Scripting (specifically Python or Bash) 
  • Programming (specifically Java, Go, Javascript, Typescript) 
  • Testing and/or Test Automation experience, a plus 
• Familiar with various tools or infrastructure used in automation 
• Experience in backend automation 
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines 
• Collaboration experience with cross-functional teams to define automation solution for new features 
• Experience in cloud technologies (preferably AWS) 
• Detail oriented, flexible in the way that a startup requires, comfortable in a very collaborative and team-oriented environment 
• Strong analytical thinking skills and results driven personality
• Experience in E2E automation test using Cypress, Selenium, or other tools a plus 
• Experience, interest or industry knowledge of advertising technology e.g. ad servers, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs etc., a plus