Staff Engineer (Software Quality)
Company Description
Yello’s talent acquisition software enables companies to humanize the candidate experience by providing unprecedented speed and transparency throughout the candidate journey. Founded in 2008, Yello supports hundreds of organizations globally by serving as a key strategic partner in optimizing recruiting operations and talent relationship management.
In 2017, Yello closed a series C funding round of $31 million and continues to grow quickly. We’re looking to hire people who believe nothing is impossible, love to learn and be curious, can be accountable for success, always enjoy the journey and will own their personality. If this is you, come grow your career with Yello.
About The Role
In this role, you will lead software quality engineering for web and mobile applications. You’ll report directly to the Yello CTO and work closely with engineering managers and technical directors to ensure high quality software development and delivery.
You will regularly present your vision, metrics, and ongoing assessments of software quality to senior leaders in the organization. You’ll be a respected champion for quality across the entire company.
How You'll Make An Impact
- Define a comprehensive software testing and quality management strategy
- Formulate and create test plans
- Help drive developer led testing
- Setting quality targets and measuring progress
- Creating an automated testing architecture
- Lead the Software Engineering Quality Guild
- Build tools & infrastructure for testing and for managing quality
- Document and enforce code quality and testing standards
- Run automated tests, perform analysis, and generate meaningful reports and diagrams for development teams
- Work with large customer data sets to continually enhance existing test suites
- Create and run performance and load tests
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of test automation and quality assurance experience
- Experience defining and developing test cases, writing test specs, creating test plans, and leading a testing team to achieve high quality
- Experience setting up and maintaining automated test tools and scripts.
- Source control and build tools experience with Jenkins, JMeter and GIT experience.
- Previous success working in a fast-paced Agile development environment.
- Deep understanding of QA challenges at each phase of the SDLC.
- Experience creating a quality strategy for large, complex web applications
- Experience with mobile testing
- Experience leading development or quality teams as a senior individual contributor, manager, or director
- Led or helped drive positive changes in culture across all teams in a software engineering organization
- Strong communication and people skills
Additional Information
We are the trailblazers in our space and we continually strive to learn and grow, but there is always time to celebrate a colleague's birthday or a recent success. We dress casually, have one of the best views in the city and the whole team sports Apple laptops. Our CEO Jason Weingarten and President Dan Bartfield always have their office doors open. And with opportunities for professional advancement, medical, dental and vision insurance, and a 401K match – Yello has you covered.
- Yello is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
- Candidates local to Chicago are preferred.
- You must be authorized to work in the United States.
- Must be able to sit or stand for continuous periods of time
- This role frequently communicates/interacts with individuals, must have strong written and oral communication skills
- Yello reserves the right to assign or reassign the responsibilities and requirements to this job at any time