Staff Software Engineer in Test

• Work cross-functionally across product lines and departments to drive alignment on quality and engineering initiatives, ensuring solutions scale while meeting both immediate and long-term objectives.
• Act as a senior technical leader within QE, providing guidance, influence, and decision-making support across teams.
• Own and evolve advanced automation, tooling, and framework strategy, including researching, adopting, and operationalizing AI-driven tooling to improve risk visibility, test effectiveness, and team productivity.
• Define and lead the mobile quality and automation strategy, partnering with Product and Engineering to ensure high-quality, scalable mobile delivery.
• Partner closely with Architects and Engineering Team Leads to influence system design early, embedding quality, testability, and reliability into architecture and delivery decisions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through framework design, proofs-of-concept, and critical automation contributions, while ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and reusable across teams.
• Champion Quality Engineering best practices, continuously improving standards, processes, and ways of working across the organization.
• Mentor and coach Software Engineers in Test through code reviews, technical guidance, and best practices, raising the team's overall quality and capabilities.
• Operate autonomously within loosely defined problem spaces, identifying opportunities, setting direction, and driving initiatives with minimal oversight beyond high-level alignment.
• Serve as a multiplier by unblocking teams, simplifying technical decisions, and enabling consistent quality outcomes across multiple product areas.
• Participate in roadmap discussions with Quality and Engineering leadership, ensuring quality considerations are embedded into planning and execution.
• Travel may be required to support teams, planning, and strategic initiatives.

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• Strong background designing, developing, and maintaining automation frameworks and test strategies for web and mobile applications, including UI, API, contract, accessibility, and performance testing.
• Hands-on experience architecting and optimizing CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows and environment-based deployments to enable fast, reliable, and scalable delivery.
• Proven ability to influence without authority, driving alignment and technical decisions across multiple teams and stakeholders, and leading initiatives through end-to-end execution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating quality risks.
• Ability to prioritize work effectively and delegate when appropriate to ensure timely delivery and team efficiency.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers, fostering technical growth and a culture of ownership and excellence.
• Willingness to travel as needed to support teams and strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrated alignment with UserTesting's values through day-to-day work and collaboration., * Strong programming experience in one or more languages such as Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Typescript, Go, or Python.
• High level of proficiency with modern automation tools and frameworks, such as Playwright, Cypress, Pactflow, and API testing tools.
• Deep understanding of software quality principles, automation practices, and testing methodologies.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including 7+ years of hands-on technical automation and framework development.
• Experience working at all stages in the software development life cycle.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with distributed remote teams.

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