Senior Software Engineer, Android Test Engineering

Reddit; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 191,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and

401k with Employer Match

Global Benefit programs that fit your

Family Planning Support

Gender-Affirming Care

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation & Paid VolunteerTime

Generous Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Reddit is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to join its Quality Engineering team. The role focuses on elevating mobile quality across features by designing and evolving test automation frameworks, tools, and services for Android apps.

You will analyze production issues, close test gaps, and ensure test infrastructure stability while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve CI/CD quality checks. Strong Android/Kotlin testing experience is required; Jetpack Compose is a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years as an SDET or Software Engineer for Android
• Minimum 3+ years in Android development
• Experience designing and building scalable automated test frameworks and services for mobile apps
• Experience writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites using Espresso and/or UIAutomator in Kotlin
• Preference for Jetpack Compose experience
• Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of Android apps
• Experience building test frameworks for native mobile apps
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and quality checks in the workflow
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies for mobile releases and fluent English communication

Responsibilities

• Help build an engineering culture that prioritizes quality across Reddit
• Develop and evolve test automation frameworks, tools, and services
• Analyze production issues, identify test gaps, and implement systemic improvements
• Maintain test infrastructure stability in non-production environments
• Troubleshoot and triage issues with teams to drive root-cause resolution
• Influence unit/integration/end-to-end testing across the org

Skills

Android SDET

Android development

Test frameworks

Espresso/Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Unit & E2E tests

Native mobile tests

CI/CD

QA methodologies

Job description

Reddit is a community of communities. It's built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 126 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.

The Test Engineering team within the Quality Engineering (QE) org is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can work in a highly collaborative environment, design/develop tools, test frameworks, and define processes to help the teams to own and be accountable for quality. The mission of the Quality Engineering org is to enable quality in all engineering teams at Reddit by providing robust test tools and frameworks that help establish quality standards across the development pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Help in building an Engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across Reddit.
• Develop and evolve test automation frameworks, tools, and services.
• Analyze production issues, identify test gaps across the entire testing stack and make systemic improvements to automated testing
• Maintain test infrastructure stability in non-production environments.
• Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
• Influence the entire engineering organization on unit/integration/end-to-end tests.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an SDET, or as a Software Engineer for Android platform
• 3+ years in Android development
• Experience in designing and building scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and services for testing mobile applications
• Experience in writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Espresso and/or, UIAutomator using Kotlin.
• Preferred experience in JetPack Compose.
• Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of Android applications
• Experience in building test frameworks and automated tests for native Mobile applications
• Strong understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks in the workflow.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies for mobile applications releases.Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k with Employer Match
• Global Benefit programs that fit your lifestyle, from workspace to professional development to caregiving support
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Generous Paid Parental Leave

Pay Transparency:

This job posting may span more than one career level.

In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.

$190,800 — $267,100 USD

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