Overview

We're looking for a QA Automation Engineer. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Engagement Details

We're the global authority on trend forecasting, combining expert insights with data science to help our clients stay ahead of trends. We provide consumer insights, product design direction, and trading strategies to maximize sales by landing the right trends at the right time. Our platform offers a vast collection of reports, images, graphs, and data, utilizing both off-the-shelf and custom CMS tools to curate processed data for our customers.

Role & Responsibilities:

We're seeking a QA Automation engineer with exceptional technical maturity and expertise to join our software engineering team and shape the future of our data and insight platform. You will work with highly motivated and extremely talented engineers and product managers with quality, performance, and scale in mind at every step of the way.

We strongly believe in team ownership of systems, which includes defining the vision of the services and prioritizing projects. You'll join one of our software engineering teams, working in a co-located and distributed remote/hybrid team, practicing continuous delivery and two-week scrum cycles and collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and DevOps engineers.

Further responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle from a quality standpoint, owning the quality of each release.
• Design and develop API and frontend automated tests for each feature.
• Work closely with the larger automation team to ensure end-to-end test coverage.
• Participate in manual QA activities as needed during feature development.
• Be an evangelist for testing culture within the company.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, ensuring clear and concise articulation of status and technical topics during team meetings.
• Be outcome-focused, present, available, and working during US Eastern Core Hours (~9 am to ~3 pm).
• Demonstrate ability to work responsibly and independently hands-on, and help guide a team through technical implementation and debugging.

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. Flexible hours. Join daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings. Other than that you’re in control of your own schedule.
4. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
5. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced (C1 or C2) speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on QA Automation experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on JavaScript experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on Cypress experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on SQL experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on NoSQL experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on AWS experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on API testing experience.
• Experience with Postman, New Relic, and equivalent tooling.
• Strong understanding of AWS logging and debugging tools.
• Strong understanding of Node-based web applications.
• Basic Software Architecture knowledge and experience.
• Experience working in an agile environment, participating in all agile ceremonies, and writing bug tickets.
• Proficiency in writing test automation code using JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of web applications and networks, with the ability to debug complex scenarios.
• Experience working with both relational and non-relational database environments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of networking concepts related to web-based services and browser interactions, including CORS.
• Solid understanding of security concepts and implementations, including OWASP best practices.
• Ability to grasp customer context and broad product requirements and ensuring that the product meets this bar.

Nice to haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated ability.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 60+ engineers going to 100+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 930+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.