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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
Benefits:
- 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
Pay Transparency:
This job posting may span more than one career level.
In addition to base salary, this job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units, and depending on the position offered, it may also be eligible to receive a commission. Additionally, Reddit offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) program with employer match, generous time off for vacation, and parental leave. To learn more, please visit https://www.redditinc.com/careers/.
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, skills, depth of work experience and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
The base pay range for this position is:
$217,000—$303,900 USD
Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
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