Staff Software Engineer - Web Test Engineering Remote - United States

Reddit, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 217,000 - 304,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its Test Engineering team. This role involves designing and developing tools and frameworks that enhance quality across engineering teams. You will be responsible for building a culture of quality, developing automated test solutions, and ensuring the stability of test infrastructures. With a focus on collaboration, this position offers the opportunity to influence quality standards and drive improvements in automated testing processes. If you are passionate about quality engineering and looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits

401k Match

Family Planning Support

Mental Health & Coaching Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Paid Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as SDET or Software Engineer.
• Strong understanding of automated testing and QA methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve test automation frameworks and tools.
• Analyze production issues and improve automated testing.

Skills

SDET experience

Web application development

Automated test frameworks

Test automation technologies (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)

CI/CD process understanding

QA methodologies

English communication skills

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Job description

Remote - United States

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 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Test Engineering team within the Quality Engineering (QE) org is looking for a Staff 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:

• 8+ years of experience as an SDET, or as a Software Engineer for web platform.
• 3+ years experience in modern web application development.
• Experience in designing and building scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and services for testing responsive web applications.
• Experience in writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and/or other modern frontend test automation technologies.
• Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of responsive web applications.
• Experience in building test frameworks and automated tests for responsive web applications.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks in the workflow.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies for web applications releases.
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs.
• 401k Match.
• Family Planning Support.
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits.
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off.
• Paid Volunteer time off.

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/.

The base pay range for this position is:

$217,000 - $303,900 USD

Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [e-mail].

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