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As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Role Summary
As a Senior Test Automation Engineer, focusing on test automation and quality, we want you to join our diverse, talented, and collaborative group, building large-scale client-side applications using modern micro-frontends and micro-services. You will contribute to the creation of reusable testing frameworks and tooling, pushing for test modularity and quality gates for continuous integration and delivery. You will partner with other software engineers and product managers to define our customer-facing and internal applications' most effective testing strategies. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing team and help grow our digital technology platform's technical foundation.
Responsibilities
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- \nDefine and collaborate with other engineers to develop our group’s testing frameworks and tools to perform automated UI application end-to-end, and API integration tests. \n \n
- \nCollaborate with UX/UI designers, product managers, and engineering peers to identify the non-happy paths and corner cases. \n \n
- \nCome together with your peers to share ideas, ask why with an open and curious mind, and learn from each other’s diverse perspectives, to deliver great work as a team. \n \n
- \nShape the future of our automated testing and release strategies. \n \n
- \nHelp us continue ‘shifting left’ by working with developers to build automated tests during feature development. \n \n
- \nIncrease developer productivity by automating regression tests which provide confidence in the quality of our software quality. \n \n
- \nEvangelize the importance of test automation to anyone who needs to be educated. \n \n
- \nMentor other engineers, helping them learn and improve their ability to find vulnerabilities and breaking points in their systems. \n \n
Qualifications
- \n5+ years of software quality engineering industry experience, with 3 years of building test automation for large-scale enterprise-grade systems. \n
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- \nExperience designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end, component and unit test automation, particularly using Typescript or JavaScript \n \n
- \nProficiency with end-to-end testing of web applications using modern frameworks and tooling (i.e., Cypress.io, Playwright). \n \n
- \nAn understanding of a modern web application stack including frontend and backend components \n \n
- \nConsiderable experience with hands-on testing for web applications with knowledge of testing methodologies and best practices \n
- \nHigh level of comfort automating tests to execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD within CI/CD pipelines. \n
- Ability to debug issues efficiently using systematic approaches and tools; producing details bug reports with steps to reproduce where possible.
- \nExperience with testing REST and/or GraphQL APIs and proficiency in the use of API testing tools. \n
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- \nSolid understanding of development lifecycles, testing methodologies, and QA processes. \n \n
- \nDetail orientated, analytical, and collaborative. \n \n
- \nParticipating in code reviews for code written by other developers on the team with a focus on testability and error detection/handling \n \n
- \nPartner with product management and engineering peers to design end-to-end user journeys that are verifiable through automated testing. \n \n
- \nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to concisely explain the rationale for design choices from the perspective of quality assurance and verification. \n
Pay Disclosure
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Equal Opportunity
\nRivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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