Staff Software Engineer - Web Test Engineering

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • $217,000 PA - $303,900 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and developing tools and test frameworks within the Quality Engineering (QE) org to ensure quality across all engineering teams at Reddit. This role involves building an engineering culture that enables quality, developing and evolving test automation frameworks, analyzing production issues, maintaining test infrastructure stability, participating in troubleshooting, and influencing the entire engineering organization on various tests. The engineer will work to improve testing standards and drive continuous quality improvement.

Must have:

8+ years of experience as an SDET or Software Engineer for web platform.
3+ years experience in modern web application development.
Experience designing and building automated test frameworks for web applications.
Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or other modern frontend test technologies.
Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of responsive web applications.
Strong understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks.
Strong understanding of QA methodologies for web applications releases.
Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Perks:

Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
401k Match
Family Planning Support
Gender-Affirming Care
Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
Generous paid Parental Leave
Paid Volunteer time off

11 skills required

11 skills required for this role

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javascript

typescript

ci-cd

cypress

selenium

communication

quality-control

automated-testing

test-suites

problem-solving

playwright

Job Details

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 101M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.

The Test Engineering team within the Quality Engineering (QE) org is looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can work in a highly collaborative environment, design/develop tools, test frameworks, and define processes to help the teams to own and be accountable for quality. The mission of the Quality Engineering org is to enable quality in all engineering teams at Reddit by providing robust test tools and frameworks that help establish quality standards across the development pipelines.

Responsibilities:

Help in building an Engineering culture that enables quality in all software feature development teams across Reddit.
Develop and evolve test automation frameworks, tools, and services.
Analyze production issues, identify test gaps across the entire testing stack and make systemic improvements to automated testing
Maintain test infrastructure stability in non-production environments.
Participate in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.
Influence the entire engineering organization on unit/integration/end-to-end tests

Required Qualifications:

8+ years of experience as an SDET, or as a Software Engineer for web platform
3+ years experience in modern web application development
Experience in designing and building scalable automated test frameworks, tools, and services for testing responsive web applications
Experience in writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites using a variety of technologies such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium and/or other modern frontend test automation technologies
Preferred experience in Typescript and/or Javascript
Experience in unit, snapshot, and end-to-end testing of responsive web applications
Experience in building test frameworks and automated tests for responsive web applications
Strong understanding of CI/CD process and quality checks in the workflow.
Strong understanding of QA methodologies for web applications releases.
Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

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