Software Engineer in Test Team Lead - Remote

Overview

The individual in this role is responsible for leading Software Engineer in Test (SET) teams to develop and implement highly scalable testing frameworks that meet our remarkably high standards of quality, performance, and reliability.

In Short

• Leads high-performing Software Engineer in Test teams that develop automation testing using the KnowBe4 Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies
• Recommends solutions to engineering problems
• Collaborates with development teams to identify areas where automation can increase both velocity and quality
• Constantly stays on top of industry leading automation and quality standards and trends to promote continuous growth and advancement of the KB4 automation ecosystem.
• Ensure the reliability of the automation stack and tests suites while seeking ways to improve self-serving automation

Requirements

• BS or equivalent plus 3 years technical experience
• Training in secure coding practices (preferred)
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineering manager responsible for leading a team of engineers and ensuring the automation of features on large-scale SaaS products
• 5+ years of experience working on and/or building software automation frameworks focused on scalability, consistency, and proper reporting.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality roles testing and automating large scale customer-facing systems with sophisticated distributed integrations
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to build, drive and support automation test strategy. Excellent knowledge of QE automation architecture, methodologies, processes, and tools
• Hands on experience working with both frontend and backend applications as well as multiple testing strategies including Integration, API, performance and load testing, etc.
• Strong experience and knowledge of leading automation efforts through the complete SDLC
• Ability to identify areas of automation opportunity and create plans to integrate into those areas through collaboration with Dev leads and PMs.
• Ability to collaborate with multi-functional and globally distributed teams
• Strong programming skills with at least one OOP language (Python, C#, etc.)
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience in working on scalable products leveraging AWS (or equivalent) backend technologies like EC2, S3, Lambda, Eventbridge, ECS, SQS etc.
• Experience working with containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, etc.
• Expertise in testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, NUnit, Behave, etc.)

Benefits

• Company-wide bonuses based on monthly sales targets
• Employee referral bonuses
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Certification reimbursement
• Certification completion bonuses
• Relaxed dress code
• Modern, high-tech, and fun work environment