Senior QA Engineer

OUR ENGINEERING TEAM

The Grove product/engineering/design team is rooted in a data and goal-driven culture. We love to collaborate on business and technology challenges and solve them quickly, intelligently, and robustly. We are working on the web, mobile, tools, core services, data eng, and sys/ops. We work in small Agile teams to cultivate autonomy, collaboration, and speed. We build in a modern, evolving stack (Python, Django, PostGres, Javascript, Vue, Redis, Memcache, Redshift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Scala, and more), leveraging new technologies as needed. We use CI/CD to deploy several times a day so that we can impact the business as quickly as possible. We use Selenium and Cypress in addition to regular unit testing strategies to implement automated test suites on the front-end and on the back-end (with java, javascript, and python). We operate with shared trust and enjoy being 'in this together' to collaborate on the challenges of a rapidly scaling business. We are based in San Francisco and Durham, North Carolina. 

THE ROLE:

As a QA engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our releases along with great user experience for grove.co and Grove Collaborative mobile applications (on iPhone and Android). You will join a team of world-class, highly motivated QA engineers, software engineers, and product managers to deliver the best e-commerce service patterns and practices that ensure developer productivity and scalable, reliable websites, mobile applications, and internal services or tools. We’re growing incredibly fast and need high-quality, maintainable, and scalable technologies to power all our front-end or back-end applications and tools. You will be in charge of mentoring development teams on end to end or regression testing coverage and best practices, complementing acceptance criteria with elements pertaining to quality assurance, delivering test plans for big releases at the very least, and operating manual tests (eventually implementing automated tests suites for all types of applications yourself).

YOUR IMPACT:

• Make mature, bright decisions to move our systems forward
• Communicate information and train other engineers on best practices and techniques for high-quality integration and release processes
• Work with engineering leadership to create a testing and automation roadmap and deliver against it.
• Proven experience in defining and executing test automation strategies by partnering with business and development teams supporting in-sprint test automation.
• Experience coaching and mentoring others on test automation tools and coding best practices
• Use your ideas to implement features and demonstrate how it ought to be done.
• Eventually own some of the SDLC processes and measure it with the lens of quality by manual and automation test suites.
• Be the customer advocate from the beginning of the project.

ABOUT YOU:

• 5+ years of strong QA experience in e-commerce.
• 3+ years of proven experience programming and debugging as a test automation engineer using any of Cypress, Selenium WebDriver, and Appium Test frameworks.
• Good knowledge of integration, regression, and release testing best practices and processes.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Good understanding of web applications testing.
• You value and take responsibility for the quality of your features, including writing your own test plan.
• You provide original, out-of-the-box ideas to detect and track edge cases or nontrivial bugs or issues.
• Motivated and assertive in learning and helping your team be successful
• An innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude
• Strong desire to excel, learn and grow career-wise.
• Exposure to mobile applications testing is a plus.
• Knowledge of scripting languages and Selenium or other automation frameworks is a plus.
• Fluent in written and verbal English

BENEFITS:

• Core Benefits: Stock options, Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax and Roth 401k options, Short term and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance, Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Perks: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Perkspot discount platform, Quarterly peer recognition awards, Class Pass discount, Free VIP Membership + 25% off every Grove order
• Work/Life: WFH stipend + internet reimbursement, Flexible Paid Time Off, 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave + discounts on fertility services

ABOUT GROVE COLLABORATIVE:

Launched in 2016 as a Certified B Corp, Grove Collaborative creates innovative natural products and offers a curated selection of healthy home essentials like cleaning supplies and personal care products. With a flexible, monthly delivery model and a personal Grove Guide assigned to each customer, Grove’s platform makes it easy for people to switch to healthier, more sustainable routines. Every item Grove offers, both from their flagship Grove Collaborative brand and from exceptional third party brands, has been thoroughly vetted against strict standards for sustainability, efficacy and supply chain practices. On a mission to move Beyond Plastic, Grove is the first and only plastic neutral retailer in the world and is committed to becoming 100% plastic-free by 2025. For more information, please visit www.grove.co/plastic.

Let’s do this

We're building a diverse and inclusive work environment where we learn from each other. We welcome people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work. Come join the community at Grove. It's a heck of a lot of fun, and we'd love to tell you more about it.

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