About the role

We’re looking for a Lead QA Engineer with a heavy mobile focus to join our Engineering team as we aim to make Circle the top choice for creator/brand-led communities. This role be a player-coach, leading our QA team, while also being hands-on. In a hands-on capacity, it will focus mostly on our mobile automation test framework, but will be involved in all technical aspects of QA. In a management capacity, this role will manage the QA team of three, helping to organize and coordinate work, remove blockers, support in each individual team members growth, and more.

We have a preference for candidates in North/South American (AMER), and European (EMEA) time zones.

What you’ll be doing

• Drive Circles product quality cycle, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Ship often and ship with care.
• Design, develop, and implement robust test automation frameworks for Android and iOS platforms using frameworks like Appium/WebdriverIO, and support our web application using Watir (built using Ruby on Rails and React).
• Work autonomously on prioritizing and defining our QA roadmap.
• Improve the quality of our codebase and identify architectural deficiencies in your product area.
• Engage in considerate, but robust, PR reviews with Circle’s engineers.
• Lead and mentor the QA team, playing a key role in hiring and managing performance.
• Collaborate closely with Circle’s product and design leaders to deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Work closely with our engineers to create a world-class user experience and quality mindset.

• Strong alignment with our values.Find our values on our career pageif you havent read up on them yet.
• You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at aCEFR Level C1/ILR Level 5.
• 8+ years experience working as a QA Engineer on complex mobile and web applications.
• Strong proficiency in mobile QA test frameworks. We currently use Appium for our React Native applications, but are open to new solutions.
• Familiarity with both mobile and web test automation is necessary, but a high degree of proficiency in both is not a requirement. You should be highly proficient with mobile QA automation testing, but can be less experienced with web.
• 2+ years experience with managing and mentoring direct reports(engineers/QA). You are a strong technical role model.
• Ability to coordinate/project-manage work and keep the team organized combined with proactive communication and excellent judgment.
• A desire to work in an environment which values speed of iteration and individual autonomy, while also embracing personal accountability and the ability to collaborate effectively as part of a dynamic team.
• Motivation to understand the business and user needs, delivering impactful results.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity.
• Adaptable with the ability to change direction quickly if necessary.
• Familiar with agile software development principles.
• Strong judgement and attention to detail when it comes to architectural, product, design, and process decisions. Your judgement should inspire a high level of trust within the team

Bonus points

• Experience with Elasticsearch / Sidekiq / Kafka / GraphQL
• Previous experience working with community platforms.
• Experience working on CRM/Marketing tools, with email deliverability, or in the creator space.
• Experience at a fast-growing start-up.

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