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Lyft Senior Software Engineer in Test in Toronto, Canada
Job Description
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation. To accomplish this, we start with our community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Lyft is looking for experienced software engineers with an emphasis on quality, testing, and test automation for mobile applications. We are growing our team with people who will help ensure the high quality of our software engineering practices and the resulting experiences of the millions of riders and drivers who use our apps to get where they’re going and earn money.
You will collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers, quality assurance teams, product managers, and more in order to make it easy to catch and fix bugs before production. You’ll also help set the quality strategy and automation roadmap for your team, guiding the work of other SETs and improving tools and practices across Lyft.
Responsibilities
Help establish automation roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
Improve our existing test automation frameworks and infrastructure and support engineers in writing automated tests
Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code in order to test complex mobile applications and APIs that reference database back-end systems
Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
Collaborate with product teams to understand the testing needs, identify test scenarios, perform exploratory testing, and design test automation
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
Share your knowledge by mentoring others (including other SETs and Quality Assurance Engineers), giving brown bags and tech talks, and promoting engineering and quality best practices
Experience
BS/MS or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of hands-on industry experience working on mobile/web platforms as a software developer or strong Automation Engineer – with most of your time spent writing code
Advanced knowledge of Swift+XCUITest or Kotlin+Jetpack Compose/Espresso for apps and tests on mobile platforms, as well as Python/Go for API tests
Experience in building automation frameworks and writing reliable, scalable, and reusable automated tests (including unit, component, snapshot, and integration tests)
Very good understanding of and ability to troubleshoot mobile testing ecosystems
Track record of improving efficiency, especially through automation, balancing short-term and long-term priorities
Nice to have: Deep knowledge of Accessibility guidelines and experience with evaluating accessibility in mobile and web applications
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