Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members, and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It’s why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age’s Best Places To Work in 2024.)

We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social and helps brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It’s what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/.

So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth. 

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the entire end-to-end life cycle for the hardest working software in advertising technology and performance marketing.

We are looking for someone with strong technical abilities and a deep understanding of quality assurance, microservices architecture, and web technologies. The test software you will build should expose API defects in production-level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration perspective. Quality Assurance Engineers diagnose project release problems and take corrective action, such as escalating as needed, resolving, and achieving results. They need to define test plans, test specifications, test suites, and test cases as well as design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner. 

Our QAEs are also responsible for driving our software development process toward quality-centric methodologies and for reporting on test progress, metrics, issues, and risks. They also contribute to the software development process by advocating for best practices in testing, providing valuable feedback, and improving automation tools. We're a collaborative environment where developers, product managers, and QA team members ensure that all features meet our high standards of quality.

What You’ll Do:

• Take ownership of the end-to-end test life cycle for a given product or set of features.
• Develop, execute and maintain test automation for the features you own, you are expected to have good technical & quality assurance skills.
• Deliver test plans and test cases based on Product Excellence/test strategies. Own test plan reviews with engineers and other stakeholders across functions.
• Work with developers, product managers, and QA team members to achieve a high-quality bar for your feature and team.
• You will also work with groups such as Product Management, User Experience Design, and Customer Support to understand customer usage models to develop your test plans and test suites that exercise real-world scenarios.
• As a QA Engineer on our team, you will work side by side with Software Development Engineers and Product Managers to develop features and evaluate technical implementation
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive release activities, execute regressions, and analyze failure for timely sign-offs with high quality.

What You’ll have:

• 5+ years of experience in developing, executing & maintaining test automation.
• 5+ years of experience in developing test plan, test cases, executing manual testing, and continually improving coverage to insist on high standards.
• Advocate for the customer in reviewing requirements, and designs and discussing with development peers and QA leadership.
• Hands-on experience with object-oriented design principles and be able to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Expertise in developing test methodologies, diving into domain & engineering stack to identify potential bottlenecks, performance degradations and race conditions.
• 5+ years of experience working in a fast-paced and complex, matrixed organization.
• 5+ years of experience driving test life cycles & quality releases to launch new features & innovative product experimentations. (e.g., test, release, etc.).
• 5+ years of experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, developers, QA engineers driving best practices, testing & processes.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with collaboration experience with the rest of the test & engineering team members to drive quality & automation.

MNTN Perks:

• 100% remote within the US
• Flexible vacation policy
• Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
• Three-day weekend every month of the year
• Competitive compensation
• 100% healthcare coverage
• 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
• Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development

About MNTN:

Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you’re contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then that ain’t us folks. Tell those trolls to take a hike–you’re waiting to climb a MNTN.

MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.

Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns – all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including, Build with Ferguson Master, Tarte, OneWheel, Decked, and National University.

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