Senior Test Automation Engineer

About us

Onebrief is a revolutionary platform for military staff workflows and operational planning. The software is designed to enable smarter, real-time decisions. With unparalleled collaboration features, AI-enhanced tools, and customizable workflows, Onebrief makes staffs superhuman. The expanding roster of customers includes COCOMs and Service Components worldwide.

Founded in 2017 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s workforce of 120+ spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software giants. Onebrief’s growth is exemplary, having raised $53M+ and counting from leading venture investors.

What you will achieve

As a quality champion, you will hold your engineering team(s) accountable for meeting the right release quality bar in the following ways:

• Weighing in early in the dev cycle (during the design process), to identify rabbit-holes and potential problems in areas like performance, security, usability, and unintended cascading breakage in adjacent areas — before code is written

• Developing test plans, quality-related procedures (like bug bashes, defect triage, etc.), and documentation that support developers as they build new features

• Writing automated tests at multiple layers of the pyramid (unit, integration, e2e) with the goal of always shifting defect detection as far left as possible

• Coordinating with other teams to communicate how your teams’ work will impact their work — before it is merged

• Conducting exploratory testing and root cause analysis as needed, and mentoring others in this skill

• Exercising excellent judgement to identify and negotiate quality trade-offs that will inevitably arise in a software development environment that’s highly responsive to customer demand

• Working with your fellow engineers to develop first class quality metrics that align with overall quality strategy, with a focus on monitoring and observability

About You

You’re an experienced quality engineer who knows how to break stuff — a thoughtful meticulous professional who brings discipline and craftsmanship to the pursuit of making resilient well-tested software. You love working directly with designers and software engineers to develop and share patterns and practices that ensure the products you build and release as a team meet the highest standards. You are also an effective agent of change and an outstanding communicator.

We’re in the defense space, so we’re looking for someone excited about our mission, eager to contribute to a growing startup, in a high-trust autonomous environment where everyone has a seat at the table. As an early member of our growing Quality team, you will be making a foundational and massive impact in the product and growth trajectory of the company.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of industry-standard quality engineering practices, along with solid opinions on when it’s OK to break the rules / dispense with conventional wisdom

• 3+ years of experience writing test automation at the unit and integration layer of the pyramid for a React-based or React-like web application using any of the following:

  • Mocha

  • Jest

  • Cypress

  • Playwright

• Creatively implementing shift left methodologies that demonstratively led to higher code quality

• Proven ability to mentor engineers in best practices around quality assurance practices in general and/or test automation specifically

• Nice to haves — experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines that make use of:

  • Github Actions (or similar) declarative pipelines

  • Contract testing

  • Visual regression testing, either homegrown or 3rd party

  • API endpoint testing

  • Load and/or performance testing

  • Log analysis with a tool like: Datadog, Kibana, or Prometheus

  • Docker, Kubernetes

• Most importantly, you are a true Onebriefer:

  • You are obsessed with creating value for real users

  • You are ambitious, scrappy, and a creative problem-solver

  • You learn quickly, work iteratively, and naturally seek collaboration

  • You approach your work with integrity, intellectual honesty, and a low ego

  • You communicate frankly, clearly, and succinctly

  • You thrive as a self-starter, embracing autonomy and ambiguity

  • You are a U.S. citizen