Principal Test Engineer

Reports to: Manager II of Software Engineering

Our Software Engineering team:

Our engineering teams work right alongside our teams in product management, operations, analytics, accounting, marketing, and even recruiting. We are expected not just to be the experts in technology, but to be able to fully understand what we are trying to build as a company--then make it possible.

Both inside and outside engineering, we drive each other to learn more and to build better. This makes for a culture and passion made from individuals working together, not a top-down initiative. We have earnest conversations about technology, structures and process, and the best path forward, building consensus and a shared mission from the ground up

Our culture defines who we are, and who we aspire to be. We want you to be a part of this culture at Enova.

What we use:

Our primary application stack includes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Ember, and Go. For test engineering, we rely on RSpec, Cucumber, Selenium, and Testify, along with XCTest and Junit for mobile testing.  On average, we release two new products per year, with two code releases per day, and we’re getting faster all the time. We’re dedicated to creating quality software quickly, and we're creating a solid, stable, and flexible service-oriented infrastructure to get there.

We work to stay on the cutting edge of technology and contribute back to open source projects, because flexible frameworks build the foundation for our businesses. It feels good to give back. We also open source a significant amount of our original development in Rails and Go.

This is where YOU come in:

As a Principal Test Engineer, you’ll be working across the entire software engineering team. You’ll help set the standard on testing practices within the team and throughout the company, so bring your best. You’ll work with the software engineering leadership team to develop, recommend and deliver department wide initiatives. You’ll work across the entire organization, having the opportunity to impact analytics, TechOps, Infrastructure and Product Management.

Enova hires and develops top talent, so you’ll mentor engineers and managers while seeing the benefits of a progressive career path yourself. As a leader, we expect you to facilitate the team’s growth. In return, we will set you up for success by helping you develop your professional skills and strategically assigning you projects based on your skills.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as part of the senior leadership, working in an interdisciplinary manner with other departments to develop testing framework architecture and drive improvements in our product testing strategy. Translate that strategy into an executable roadmap that continues to innovate.
• Lead and mentor software engineers and managers when it comes to testing technologies, best practices and patterns.
• Act as an authority for testing technologies and communicate direction SE wide.
• Champion decision-making across the SE team around test engineering, working with the entire technology organization to implement, deploy and support holistic solutions.
• Communicate clearly, using concise written and verbal skills, building consensus for technology directions.
• Develop appropriate metrics to assess the value of quality being delivered through automation and testing efforts.
• Collaborate alongside Software Engineering teams to identify achievable milestones within current product goals that can be executed and aligned with larger SE and company goals.
• Demonstrate industry leadership by representing Enova and Enova’s values at conferences and meetups.
• Partner with other Principal Engineers to evolve Enova’s software architecture and design.
• Participate in vendor negotiations by contributing to capacity planning, expected growth, usage projections, and assessing testing technology. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years as a test engineer with experience designing, implementing and supporting multi-tier systems.
• 2+ years as a test architect across multiple connected systems.
• Experience architecting and recommending holistic testing plans including, but not limited to: scalability, performance, stability, integration, UAT and smoke tests.
• Ability to influence and direct strategy across multiple teams.Familiarity with industry wide best test automation and architecture practices.
• Familiarity working with multiple concurrent products of the same domain.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to advocate your ideas, through writing, speaking and presenting.
• Experience architecting, developing, and maintaining test infrastructure.
• Experience working with Lean and Agile development concepts across multiple teams, working on disparate products and projects.
• 2+ years of experience working in a continuous delivery environment, with multiple product lines in active development.

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