THE JELLYVISION LAB NEEDS AN AMAZING SOFTWARE ENGINEER - TEST

We here at Jellyvision are the proud parents of ALEX®, an interactive employee communications platform that happens to share some DNA (and a sense of humor) with the smash-hit trivia video game YOU DON’T KNOW ®, created by Jellyvision's founder. ALEX makes navigating tricky decisions—like choosing and using employee benefits or improving your financial wellness—easier, faster, and more helpful, not to mention entertaining. The success of the ALEX platform has exceeded our wildest dreams, (except for the part right before we woke up where our mom was riding a giraffe), which is why we need talented folks like you to help us help ALEX take over the world…er…continue to grow and succeed.

SO WHAT’S THIS JOB ABOUT? 

As the newest engineer on a quickly growing team, you will be tasked with gathering requirements, writing tests, and integrating those tests into our deploy workflow. Reporting to the Automation Team Lead, you will work with QA, Operations, and different engineering teams to make this happen. 

Much of your work will revolve around the ALEX Benefits Counselor, a multi-media experience that is customized for each of our hundreds of clients. We need a candidate eager to tackle the complex challenges that come with this unique product. You‘ll also be an integral part of the movement to add automation coverage to our ever-expanding ecosystem of internal tools and new products. We have some big goals to hit as a company, and we need to grow our automation team to get there!

WHAT KIND OF SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?

 Ruby: This role involves writing Ruby code to build test frameworks and automate manual tests.  If you have done this in another language, like Python, and you are willing to learn Ruby, that could work. If you’re really good with Ruby, but haven’t done much integration testing, that could work too. Ideal candidates will have 1 – 3 years coding experience.

Automation: We use Capybara, but you might have experience with another web automation tool.  This is not a record and play tool, but something that involves writing code to customize your automated tests. You can read page source and understand basic HTML/CSS/Javascript syntax. 

Object-Oriented design: We are building an automated test framework, not a collection of one-off scripts. You have experience writing classes, modules, and methods that encapsulate the complexity of your code. Maybe you have created a class diagram or two.

Unit Testing: You have written tests in code, and you can articulate knowledge of key concepts such as: assertions, hooks, and test data.

RESTful APIs: You can call endpoints in code and parse the response. You know the difference between a GET and a POST, between a query and a payload.

Terminal, Bash, Git: You know how to handle yourself in the terminal. You can change directories, edit files, and check in code from the command line. Maybe you can write a simple bash script.

BONUS POINTS:   

Knowledge and/or experience with any of the following: Agile methodology, Continuous Integration, Web development, Page Object Model, Databases, AWS, Python., Mobile testing

WHAT ABOUT NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS?

Strong written and verbal communication skills: We know it’s hard to believe, but not everyone at Jellyvision is technical. We’re writers, graphic artists, salespeople…you get the idea. With that in mind, we’re looking for someone who can clearly communicate complicated technical concepts to non-technical people.

Problem solving skills: On the flip side, you’ll also need to be able to take non-technical concepts and use them as a jumping off point for defining requirements for the coding you will be doing.

Team player: Love to work in a cave? Shudder at the concept of making eye contact with your fellow employee, or (horrors), talking to them? This…might not be the role for you. But if you’re into splitting your time between working solo and collaborating alongside your awesome teammates, you’ll do great here.

IMPORTANT:

We are looking for someone to work side by side with the team in our Chicago office, so we are not able to consider remote applicants at this time. I know. Bummer. But if you live in/around Chicago, or want to live in Chicago, send us that application!

ANYTHING ELSE?  Yes. We share a commitment to excellence and a desire to work in a comfortable, friendly atmosphere, so we only hire nice, bright, funny people who are willing to work hard.  Our credo is a simple one: be helpful. And we think we can be most helpful if our workforce is as diverse in thought, perspective, and culture as the people who use our products. We are looking to add amazing folks to our team who will bring diversity across many lines, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, sex, and country of origin.

ARE THERE ANY PERKS? Yes, we love perks.

• Competitive pay, 401(k) with matching, stock options and benefits. We pay 100% of the cost of premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for our employees (as long as you qualify for our tobacco-free discount; if you’re a tobacco user, your medical premiums will be higher than $0). We also cover a really nice chunk of the cost of premiums for spouse/dependent medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Casual dress and a flexible schedule. Come in a sweatshirt, jeans, whatever, like everyone else here.
• Creative work environment. We are lucky to work in a place that is full of intelligent, talented and innovative folks. Although most hours the place is deathly quiet (we're a focused bunch), this is punctuated with hilarious outbursts and general merriment, which makes a nice way to spend the day.
• Free food. Every week, we stock our kitchen with free healthy snack foods, and we have a catered lunch every other week to give people a reason to hang out and eat together.
• Easy transportation and lots of love for folks who bike to work. We’re really close to the North/Clybourn red line stop and the Halsted (#8) bus (right by the Apple Store and Mega Whole Foods too), and we have a transit FSA that allows you to dedicate pre-tax dollars to public transportation expenses. A number of our employees like to bike to work, so we also have bike storage, showers and lockers in the office.  And for those without their own bike in the city, we offer free divvy memberships – complete with Jellyvision bike helmets you can borrow from the office.
• Did we mention our yoga class? We bring a pro instructor right to the office. Fully subsidized by Jellyvision and fully optional, btw.
• Oh! And we have a massage chair. Not just any massage chair, my friend. It’s the HumanTouch HT 5320 WholeBody™ Massage Chair. Feeling a little stiff? Sit down. Relax. Feel better? Good. Okay, back to work.

AND HOW DO I APPLY?

We look forward to hearing about you and what you do. Make sure your application includes:

• A cover letter that highlights three reasons you think you’d be great for the gig, focusing on how your past experience has prepared you for this kind of position. Writing is key to all we do, and we weigh cover letters heavily.  We love a cover letter that really shows us your personality (check out our company bios to see the wide range of personalities we’ve already got in house), but don’t stress if you’re not a comedian. You don’t have to be funny. Just be yourself. We’re mostly interested in learning who you are, what you love to do, and why you’d love to do it here with us.
• Your resume 

You will receive an auto-reply confirming that we've received your application.

Please know that every single application we receive is read by a real live human being. However that kind of thoughtful review takes time, so it may take us a little while to get back to you (but we will, we promise). In the meantime, NO FOLLOW UP PHONE CALLS OR EMAILS, PLEASE. It’s not that we don’t love hearing from you. It’s just that time spent responding to follow ups could be spent…well…reading your application. Please rest assured that if you received a confirmation from Recruiting Robot, we’ve got you’re application, and will get back to you really soon. We knew you’d understand.

If you still have pressing questions in the meantime, please feel free to check out our handy-dandy FAQ page!

Thanks for your interest in Jellyvision!