Ridgeline is looking to build a world-class platform that powers its entire product experience, aiming for an industry-defining, fast, and scalable user experience by providing platform leverage for teams to build products quickly, with high quality, and consistently. The role aims to integrate AI tools into the development lifecycle, conduct strategic exploratory testing, and enable the team to scale without sacrificing quality.
Requirements
- 6+ years experience in quality engineering with a significant portion in staff-level or lead roles responsible for full lifecycle test automation, infrastructure ownership, and cross-team quality initiatives.
- Experience with AI quality frameworks that increase resilience in front end, browser-based testing.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript (and/or TypeScript), with a proven track record in architecting and maintaining large-scale test automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress or Playwright).
- Prior experience in a technical leadership role, architecting and owning automated test frameworks for complex, cross-team software projects.
- 3+ years experience in software testing methodology and a CI/CD software development life cycle.
- 3+ years test planning and automation experience.
- Experience with AWS and Datadog.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, design, and rollout of automation frameworks and drive alignment and implementation of best practices for quality and test automation across the broader Technology organization
- Design, build, and own key testing infrastructure to enable engineers to own quality as part of the development process that supports multiple product initiatives and teams.
- Lead cross-team quality engineering initiatives, mentoring engineers and acting as a subject matter expert in automation and best practices, acting as a technical advisor beyond your immediate group.
- Be fully accountable for end-to-end test architecture participating in the entire software development process from requirements analysis, design reviews, implementation, and delivery.
- Triages complex test pipeline issues across domains, influencing resolution and process improvements at the organization level.
- Act as a mentor and technical advisor to less experienced engineers providing guidance on testing methodologies, automation frameworks, and best practices by organizing learning sessions, performing code reviews, and running training activities.
Other
- Engage closely with the product management and engineering teams to help establish and achieve team goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to take initiative, build strong relationships, and influence and align multiple teams on technical quality strategy.
- Demonstrated organizational impact in mentoring, technical leadership, and driving adoption of test automation best practices.
- Serious interest in having fun at work.
