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About the team & opportunity
What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team?
We make things possible for our customers through innovation.
Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a QA Engineer III who will bring experience testing consumer SaaS applications in an Agile environment. You will report to a QA Engineering Manager and will be responsible for testing new features and functionality within the Calendly platform.
A day in the life of a QA Engineer at Calendly
At Calendly, we strive to think it, build it, ship it—delivering great features to our customers as fast as possible while ensuring the highest quality user experience. As a QAE, you will work closely with Development Engineers and Product Managers. This includes helping define user stories and refine acceptance criteria as well as testing new features and creating automated tests.
Our ideal candidates are analytical with a keen eye for detail and obsession over quality. Top candidates will have experience using continuous integration, deployment, testing, and delivery strategies. This role will be responsible for logging and monitoring errors, and testing performance and load-time. You’ll have the opportunity to design testing strategies in a service-oriented architecture for large scale projects including unit tests, API tests, and functional/GUI tests.
On a typical day, you will be working on:
- Analyze product requirements and architect test plans
- Contribute in team sprint planning meetings
- Write, validate and execute test cases
- Track defects and provide quality metrics
- Collaborate with SDETs and other engineers on test strategies
- Take ownership of and champion quality in areas of focus
- Promote to the entire organization how important it is to ship high-quality / low-defect code
What do we need from you?
- 4+ years of experience testing web applications
- Experience testing a SaaS product with a strong focus on quality throughout the entire software development cycle
- Experience testing in a service-oriented architecture
- Understanding of web application architecture and troubleshooting
- Exposure to one or more automation testing tools (e.g. Cypress, WebDriver, Playwright)
- Experience with Git or other source control systems
- Experience with one or more scripting languages (e.g. Javascript, Python)
- Working knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Buildkite (or other similar tools)
- Experience validating API services using tools such as Postman
- Experience with Agile development methodology (e.g. Scrum)
- Experience mentoring and guiding other Engineers in testing best practices
- Excellent problem-solving skills, a love for technical challenges, and a willingness to learn
- Impeccable time management skills and an ability to self-direct
- Phenomenal written and verbal communication skills
- Availability for participation in an on-call rotation, ensuring timely and effective responses to critical production issues outside of regular working hours.
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
The ranges listed above are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.
Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:
- Tier 1: San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, NY
- Tier 2: Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Miami, FL, and all other cities in CA.
- Tier 3: All other locations not in Tier 1 or Tier 2
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please let your Recruiter know when first connecting with them. Calendly is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are located in Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia, you will not be eligible for employment. Note that all individual roles will specify location eligibility.
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