Software Engineer in Test, Rider Quality

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.                               

On the Rider team, we are growing our team with people who want to enrich the lives of our community through technology. You'll collaborate with highly cross-functional teams such as product, data science, analytics, and design to deliver on that promise. As the Software Engineer in Test in Rider Quality team, you will help Lyft re-imagine what quality means in the age of AI. You will be responsible for building a new set of test automation and ML-enabled tooling to ensure a high-quality Lyft app.

A Software Engineer in Test (SET) will be the driving force behind a comprehensive automation strategy defining test implementation and increasing coverage. This is a hands-on position. You will schedule and participate in internal testing efforts, collaborate closely with product feature teams as they develop new features, and ensure every release happens on time without regression.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product teams to understand the testing needs, identify test scenarios, perform exploratory testing, and design test automation
• Create testing plans, both manual and automated, for new and existing products and features in line with product goals
• Improve our existing test automation frameworks and infrastructure and support engineers in writing automated test
• Tests complex API, web and mobile based applications that reference database back-end systems.
• 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

Experience:

• 3+ years of hands-on industry experience as an SET, developer, or strong Automation Engineer
• Strong object-oriented programming experience
• Proficiency in Java/Kotlin or Swift for mobile platforms
• Familiarity with Espresso/XCUItest is strongly desired
• Proficiency in Java/Python for API test (integration test)
• Solid experience in building automation frameworks and writing reliable, scalable, and reusable automated tests
• Solid experience with design patterns
• Have worked on mobile platform and have a very good understanding of and ability to troubleshoot the testing ecosystem
• Strong experience in developing and documenting test plan, test cases and reporting bugs for complex features
• Track record of improving efficiency, especially through automation, balancing short-term and long-term priorities
• Have significant experience and willingness to work with other teams such as engineering, product and release teams
• Forward and proactively thinking ahead, and building for future changes in an ever-changing mobile ecosystem
• Shows a passion for learning, especially through looking at new processes and tools that have significant impact on engineering teams
• Experience of prioritizing and coordinating work across a large number of product teams is a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Experienced in developing metrics against test coverage

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under Lyft's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
• Lyft is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is $108,000-148,500 CAD. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Range is not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.