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QA Engineer

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Remote
2 Locations
150K-180K
Senior level
Remote
2 Locations
150K-180K
Senior level
Leading the QA team to ensure product quality through comprehensive testing, automated test development, and collaboration with engineering teams.
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Shift5 is the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT). We’re a rapidly growing scale-up that specializes in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for operational technology (OT) systems across defense, aerospace, and rail. We are a collaborative, passionate, and driven cadre of dynamic, multidisciplinary experts and we’re focused on helping our customer’s fleets run smarter and safer by accessing and democratizing the volumes of onboard OT data generated by transportation and freight fleets, defense fleets & other critical infrastructure. Come join us. 

Our Values:

  • Embrace Truth and Integrity: Base decisions on data, foster open dialogue, and uphold unwavering integrity.
  • User-Centric Focus: Prioritize user needs to guide our actions and resource allocation.
  • Collaborative & Adaptable: Collaborate for excellence, learn from failures, and drive iterative improvements, recognizing every decision's significance.

Shift5 is seeking a full-time Lead QA Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll help ensure the quality of features built into Shift5’s product suite. You’ll play a critical role in testing, verifying, and providing a high-quality technology stack that: 

  • Serves the user’s digital touch points into the Shift5 product ecosystem 
  • Composes the middleware that drives the core engine of our solutions 
  • Sustains the backend components that source, analyze and enrich the vast amounts of Operation Technology-based data captured by our hardware platform 

You’ll operate in a team-based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers, and designers to ship solutions that are of highest quality and meet our customers' needs. QA Engineering will play a key role in delivering features and generating high-impact products that literally save lives. This role resides in our Product Engineering team and reports to our Director of Software Engineering. 

In this role you will be expected to:

  • Serve as the lead for a newly formed QA function. Prior experience as a QA Team Lead or QA Team Manager is preferred.
  • Write comprehensive test plans for new and existing features.
  • Create regression test suites to ensure ongoing stability.
  • Write automated tests against APIs and UIs (driven by Selenium, for example).
  • Work with our Platform Engineering (DevOps) team to integrate automated testing within our build pipelines.
  • Execute manual functional and exploratory tests against the entire Shift5 solution stack.
  • Be highly adaptable and able to learn new technologies quickly.
  • Collaborate closely with Software, Hardware, Firmware, Data, and Platform Engineering.

Required:

  • 5+ Years of experience in software QA and automated test development
  • Strong proficiency in creating automated test suites against frontend applications and APIs as well as integration tests to ensure functionality and compatibility across various software and hardware components
  • Ability to set up and configure test environments consisting of both hardware and software components
  • Experience leading a team of QA Engineers and instilling best practices
  • Experience working with software teams, demonstrating advanced skill in automated and manual testing
  • Deep understanding of QA Engineering practices and concepts
  • Demonstrated experience with REST API’s, CI/CD, automated UI test tooling (Selenium/Cypress/Playwright), Docker, Linux
  • US Citizenship

Preferred:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
  • Prior experience with CANbus, MIL-STD-1553, SAE J1939, ASCB, ARINC 429
  • Familiarity working with and deploying to AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Active (or ability to hold/obtain a) US Government Top Secret security clearance

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Base Salary: $150,000-180,000
  • Bonus program and equity in a fast-growing startup
  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families
  • Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions
  • 401k with employer contributions
  • Employer-paid Life and Disability Insurance 
  • Uncapped paid time off policy
  • Flexible work & remote work policy
  • Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA)

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the diversity of our people and represents the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems. We strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. 

Shift5 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, age, marital status, ancestry, projected veteran status, or any other protected group or class.

 

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Top Skills

Ci/Cd
Cypress
Docker
Linux
Playwright
Rest Api
Selenium

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