Senior Software Development Engineer in Test – Sr SDET

At RudderStack, we are redefining enterprise-scale data collection and routing. We are building a customer data platform (CDP) on the customer’s own data warehouse. Our open-source, developer-first approach is the first of its kind. We understand the outsized impact customer data has on businesses, and we understand the challenges and pain points. We are looking to solve the customer data management problem in enterprises, once and for all, in a secure, compliant and cost-effective way.

RudderStack collects data from 30+ sources, can transform events on the fly, and routes to 150 different marketing, sales, product, analytics applications all with one snippet of code.

We’re backed by Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins and S28 and have raised a total of $82 million in funding. Our customers include Stripe, Crate + Barrel, Acorns, Hinge, and Priceline. We process critical customer data for some top companies around the world, and are looking for ambitious individuals to join our team and help shape the future of our product.

Our Vision:

At RudderStack, we are redefining enterprise-scale data collection and routing. We are building a customer data platform (CDP) on the customer’s own data warehouse. Our open-source, developer-first approach is the first of its kind. We understand the outsized impact customer data has on businesses, and we understand the challenges and pain points.

RudderStack collects data from 30+ sources, can transform events on the fly, and routes to 150 different marketing, sales, product, analytics applications all with one snippet of code.

We have open-sourced 30+ GitHub repositories and earned 3600+ stars for our rudder-server repository. We provide RudderStack data collection as a service, and our SaaS platform processes 100 Billion events every month and growing rapidly.

GitHub Organization: https://github.com/rudderlabs

About the the Team:

We are a high-performance team of data, security, and marketing experts, who have spent a lot of time working with large-scale data at enterprises in Silicon Valley & India. We are looking to solve the customer data management problem once and for all in a secure, compliant, and cost-effective way.

We are a remote-first team. We have our team located in US Remote, India Remote and Greece Remote.

We’re backed by Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins and S28 and have raised $85M in funding. Our customers include Stripe, Crate & Barrel, Acorns, Hinge, Gatsby, InfluxDB, Grafana, Priceline, and more. We process critical customer data for some top companies around the world, and are looking for ambitious individuals to join our team and help shape the future of our product.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join our QA Engineering team.

This team is the centre of ensuring quality through test automation across all modules of rudderstack. As a senior member of SDET team, you would play a vital role in driving automation projects, and building test frameworks with the aim of improving product quality.

About the Role:

• Our roles are remote first ().

This role is based in EMEA; candidates from different regions will not be considered for this opening.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Quality Engineering Practice development by identifying and developing tools, best practices, and frameworks that can be adopted by product development teams
• Design and build performant, scalable, and reliable test automation frameworks
• Develop automation solutions for APIs, user interface, mobile SDK, and other software components including non-functional tests
• Holistic oversight of test automation across all the development teams ensuring best practices adoption and improved quality of tests
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance proactively
• Guide and Mentor teams on improving test automation coverage at appropriate levels of the test automation pyramid
• Work independently as well as with the team to deliver test solutions successfully
• Constructively identify problems and propose solutions that improve product quality and test processes
• Establish good working relationships with team members and other cross-function teams

What we are looking for:

• 7+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer or SDET
• Good programming knowledge in JavaScript/Go/Python/TypeScript
• Hands-on experience in developing automated testing frameworks for cloud/distributed services
• Well-versed with design patterns(automation) for building automation frameworks
• Strong API automation experience and must be familiar with the mocking of APIs for component testing
• Hands-on experience in WebdriverIO or a similar framework is desired
• Involved in continuous research, performed PoCs, and extended automation frameworks
• Has a tester mindset, is curious, and can come up with relevant test scenarios
• Has a solid understanding of testing principles and methodologies
• Is agile in nature and knows how testing fits in the agile model
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines (Code build / Github actions)
• Working knowledge of at least one Cloud platform (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc)
• Nice to have working experience with Kubernetes
• Nice to have working experience with cucumber
• Nice to have experience in performance testing and should be willing to learn more
• A good understanding of databases, and data pipelines will be an added advantage

Why work for us

It would be a challenging, grounds-up opportunity for you. You get a chance to work on challenging problems along with amazing engineers.

Since the company is still in the early stages, you will get to see the complete lifecycle of the startup, from getting the initial customers to raising funding rounds. If you stick it out, you will experience extraordinary career growth.

The RudderStack Way:

You get a chance to work on challenging problems alongside amazing people as we scale RudderStack. We are meaningful and thoughtful about our hiring, and want to build great teams together. We expect everyone to be deeply involved with hiring, so you have a hand in helping build the team. We have a global mindset, and want to bring on the best talent regardless of location. The company is still in the early stages, and you will get to see the complete lifecycle of a startup, from getting the initial customers to raising funding rounds, and beyond. Those who thrive in this sort of dynamic environment will experience extraordinary career growth.

Our benefits include, comprehensive health insurance, work from home office setup reimbursements, learning stipends, “take as you need” vacation policy, flexible work hours, remote first culture, team lunches, events and more!

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person’s, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.