Lead QA engineer

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer who is passionate about building high quality cybersecurity products.

Our ideal teammate possesses a natural curiosity, sharp analytical skills, and is excited to drive improvements on behalf of customers. We are looking for an individual that can lead quality initiatives, build and maintain strategic relationships with a variety of stakeholders, develop repeatable processes and automation for testing, and help deliver results.

If you’re passionate about solving complex problems at scale and want to join a fast-paced organization with meaningful impact to customers by delivering quality products, then we’d like to talk to you.

About the Team

Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world. 

The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it’s our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the center of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including Java, Python and AWS  just to name a few. 

Join our Quality Engineering team to help build and innovate great quality products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.

About the Role
As a Lead Software Engineer in Test within our expanding Quality Engineering (QE) team, you'll spearhead our commitment to product quality and a shift-left testing approach. Your role involves guiding a team of software engineers, acting as a mentor and subject matter expert. You'll ensure software application quality and reliability by devising testing strategies, implementing automated frameworks, and providing strong leadership.

In this role, you will: 

• Interact with various stakeholders, such as engineering and support teams, to come up with clear requirements for QE deliverables

• Design and concisely describe the solutions to improve testability of products

• Guide the team through technical hurdles to unblock the team’s operations 

• Understand each product under test, including its use cases, execution/data flow and configuration to provide efficient quality improvement strategies

• Facilitate team discussions and strategise deliverable planning.

• Look for opportunities for moving manual testing to automated. 

• Work with other teams within Rapid7 to ensure the quality of the product is maintained.

• In addition, carry out normal QE tasks such as: 

  • Maintain, execute and create automated tests. 

  • Manage test environments. 

  • Create and maintain test plans. 

The skills you’ll bring include, but not limited to:

• A minimum of 7+ years experience in Software development role with 3+ years of experience in Testing and QE. Experience and interest in people leadership is highly desirable.

• Experience in leading team(s) through  multiple complex projects. 

• People leadership experience in coaching, mentoring and managing performance.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to come up with clear requirements and prove the solution through POCs if needed.

• Knowledge in wide technology stacks and languages for Cloud and On-Premises products.

• Experience in developing and testing systems that scale for performance and load.

• Self-directed, motivated, collaborative, high-energy, with a diligent work ethic.

• Experience with automation frameworks. Ex: RobotFramework, Cucumber, NUnit, Playwright or Selenium.

• Experience in DevOps engineering.

• Working knowledge of JIRA or equivalent defect tracking tools.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms . Ex: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, OpenStack or VMware.

• Knowledge of RDBMS and SQL language.

About Rapid7​

Rapid7 is creating a more secure digital future for all by helping organizations strengthen their security programs in the face of accelerating digital transformation. Our portfolio of best-in-class solutions empowers security professionals to manage risk and eliminate threats across the entire threat landscape from apps to the cloud to traditional infrastructure to the dark web. We foster open source communities and cutting-edge research–using these insights to optimize our products and arm the global security community with the latest in attacker methods. Trusted by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, our industry-leading solutions and services help businesses stay ahead of attackers, ahead of the competition, and future-ready for what’s next. 

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