Test Engineer

Major League Baseball (MLB); Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 105,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Benefits Package

Company 401K Contribution

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games

Job summary

Major League Baseball (MLB) in Boulder, Colorado, is seeking a Software Testing Specialist to enhance the quality across all phases of software development. The ideal candidate will possess 4+ years of experience in software testing, including expertise in test automation and agile methodologies.

This role offers a salary range of $105,000 to $130,000, plus bonuses, and a competitive benefits package including 401K contributions, paid time off, and access to free baseball tickets.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software testing experience.
• Experience with test automation.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate testing plans and results.
• Contribute to project test automation suites.
• Utilize debugging tools to identify root causes.

Skills

Software testing experience

Problem-solving skills

Agile processes (Scrum, Kanban)

Communication skills

Experience with Playwright

Knowledge of AI-assisted testing

Tools

Postman

Git

Test tracking tools (X-Ray)

Continuous integration (GitHub Actions)

Application Performance Monitoring tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Proactively evangelizing quality in all phases of the software development process
• Authoring and communicating clear test plans, results, and coverage to your team and organization
• Testing service layer using tools like Postman, Paw, and Playwright
• Utilizing debugging proxies, application performance monitoring, and machine-generated data to identify the root cause of issues
• Contributing to the project’s test automation suites and identifying high-value opportunities to apply automation and testing tools
• Assuming co-ownership of automation and testing tools backlog
• Serving as a subject matter expert and coach for testing approaches
• Actively leverage and evaluate AI-assisted tooling (e.g., code conversion, test generation) to accelerate automation efforts and ensure quality of AI-generated code
• Demonstrating product/platform expertise to uncover design and implementation risks early in the planning and design phases

Qualifications & Skills

• 4+ years of software testing experience and the ability to demonstrate testing and technical prowess
• Self-motivated, communicative, curious, proactive nature
• Understanding of industry-standard test processes, load testing, and test automation pyramids
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Eagerness to learn new things and overcome challenges
• Experience in an agile environment using processes such as Scrum, Kanban, etc
• Experience with software coding, specifically as it relates to building test automation (e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript)
• Experience with source code management (Git, etc.)
• Experience with test tracking tools (X-Ray, etc.)
• Experience with AI-assisted testing capabilities such as self-healing automation, synthetic data generation, or test code generation
• Playwright experience/expertise
• Experience introspecting application performance using tools such as JMX and APM (e.g. DataDog) alongside comprehending code paths based on application logging, metrics, and other signals
• Experience with SRE and SRE concepts such as error budgets, SLI/SLO, etc
• Experience with continuous integration (GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Understanding of persistence layer and ability to plan and load test data

Salary Range

$105,000 - $130,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus. As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company 401K Contribution
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

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