Software Engineer in Test

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft needs experienced engineers from a breadth of disciplines. Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride-sharing industry. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting-edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched

A Software Engineer in Test (SET) will be the driving force behind a comprehensive automation strategy defining test implementation and increasing coverage. This is a hands-on position. You will schedule and participate in internal testing efforts, collaborate closely with product feature teams as they develop new features, and ensure every release happens on time without regression.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product teams to understand the testing needs, identify test scenarios, perform exploratory testing, and design test automation
• Create testing plans, both manual and automated, for new and existing products and features in line with product goals
• Improve our existing test automation frameworks and infrastructure and support engineers in writing automated test
• Tests complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems.
• Maintain existing UI and API tests, monitor failures and report bugs
• Build and maintain systems to monitor test stability and report stability issues back to engineers

Experience:

• 3+ years of hands-on industry experience as an SDET, developer, or strong Automation Engineer
• Strong object-oriented programming experience
• Proficiency in Java/Kotlin or Swift for mobile platforms
• Familiarity with Espresso/XCUItest is strongly desired
• Proficiency in Java/Python for API test (integration test)
• Solid experience in building automation frameworks and writing reliable, scalable, and reusable automated tests
• Solid experience with design patterns
• Have worked on mobile platform and have a very good understanding of and ability to troubleshoot the testing ecosystem
• Strong experience in developing and documenting test plan, test cases and reporting bugs for complex features
• Track record of improving efficiency, especially through automation, balancing short-term and long-term priorities
• Have significant experience and willingness to work with other teams such as engineering, product and release teams

Nice to have:

• Forward and proactively thinking ahead, and building for future changes in an ever-changing mobile ecosystem
• Shows a passion for learning, especially through looking at new processes and tools that have significant impact on engineering teams
• Experience of prioritizing and coordinating work across a large number of product teams is a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Experienced in developing metrics against test coverage