Minimum qualifications

• A pragmatic vision of QA best practices

• Hands-on experience with various test automation frameworks for API REST and Mobile UI, whether in a QA or Software Development role

• Successfully led a Software Development or QA Specialist team

• Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Developers, and other highly skilled specialists

• Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environments and tools

• Hand on Performance testing skills

• A solid understanding of microservice architectures

About the job

A stellar opportunity to have massive impact: join the rapidly growing Hotels team at a company continually redefining how people travel. As the Principal QA Automation Specialist - Hotels, you will establish the foundations of QA practice and pave the way to ensure sustainable growth for all the features in our Business Unit. You will be working directly with business stakeholders to establish a quality strategy and roadmap and you’ll collaborate with our product development team to promote a customer-centric approach, using automation whenever possible. 

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously improve our QA strategy 
• Drive agile adoption of best testing practices, tools and frameworks, including test automation, across the product development team 
• Create and maintain quality dashboards and metrics
• Lead the QA practice across multi-disciplinary teams and support / coach the QA specialists
• Develop and own QA processes, strategy, solutions and roadmap
• Perform issue triage, regression testing and exploratory testing, especially in the early phases of our growth
• Coordinate app software releases - planning, QA, release notes
• Act as the customer advocate for application quality and performance

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• WeWork All Access Pass OR Work-from-home stipend
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
• Open communication with management and company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Access to a 401k 

Interview Plan: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UDns4Md9azK698-C0uXxAGeu4hlHmi-uIIMYs6bzixc/edit

More about Hopper

Today, Hopper is best known as a travel app. We're going to do about $1B in sales this year and weathered the COVID storm better than anyone expected. We just raised $170M from Goldman Sachs and Capital One, and inked a deal to be the exclusive travel provider for Capital One Travel.

We owe our success, in large part, to a proprietary suite of data-driven and risk-based financial services that we have developed that complement a customer's trip-purchasing experience. One example is Price Freeze, where our customers are able to purchase a financial option in the app to lock in any price that they see, on any item, for as short as 1 hour or as long as 21 days with Hopper taking the risk on the other side of the trade.

Now we're laying the groundwork for continued expansion in 2021 by adding great people to our team who can help us compete with the travel giants.

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