Mobile Quality Engineer

Vivid Seats

(Chicago, Illinois)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Vivid Seats
Vivid Seats is the fastest-growing online marketplace for sports, theatre, and concert tickets. We are dedicated to providing our customers with the best ticket buying experience in the industry.
Summary
As a senior quality engineer, you'll be a quality implementer at Vivid Seats and work on an agile team of engineers, designers, and product owners to build a top tier ticket marketplace that brings fans to their favorite events. Our quality engineers work closely with their teams to prevent defects before they are found. You’ll own testing suites, explore edge cases, and champion quality for the organization. If you’re passionate about quality and ensuring maximum coverage by finding new ways to break software, this position is for you. You will play a crucial role in testing new features and functions, developing test automation and be responsible for quantifying and improving quality within our software.
Responsibilities
* Develop solid understanding of Vivid Seats’ products, how our customers use them, and apply the knowledge to better understand feature requirements * Actively and meaningfully contribute in all scrum events and guide the team on overall mobile application testing strategy * Collaborate with engineers and product owners, develop effective test plans, test cases and steps from user stories and acceptance criteria * Execute different types of tests (including exploratory tests), record defects and assist in driving resolution * Develop, review, organize and execute end to end automated tests; continuously assess and improve test coverage for your team’s functional areas * Proactively identify software risks and prevent them through various mitigation techniques * Perform root cause analysis, identify trends and weak points and suggest corrective actions * Be a quality advocate, mentor peers in quality engineering and drive quality of Vivid Seats’ products
Ideal Candidate
* 5+ years of experience testing preferably in fast paced agile environment * 3+ years of experience in mobile testing (iOS, Android) * Ability to review user stories with a focus on testability, test automaton and quality improvements * Demonstrated knowledge of agile testing practices and different functional and non-functional test types * Experience in test effort estimation, mapping business requirements to test activities and implementing quality throughout product delivery * Hands-on experience building, executing, and debugging automated functional tests using frameworks such as Espresso, Kif, Appium, Calabash etc. * Experience working with REST API technologies and other web protocols * Experience configuring and using continuous integration pipeline tools like Jenkins or Travis-CI * Excellent communication and prioritization skills with proven ability to multi-task * Attention for detail, curiosity and customer focused mindset * Ability to think outside the box and approach the app with multiple user perspectives * Passion for constant improvement in quality of products and uncovering hard to find scenarios and defects * Must work well in a results-oriented environment as well as independently * Must be able to learn new technologies with enthusiasm and a high degree of efficiency * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant work
Compensation and Working Conditions
Benefits Benefits included

Additional Notes on Compensation

Standard benefits include: medical/dental/vision/life insurance, paid family leave, 401(k) plan with employer match, flexible hours and paid time off, and transit plan discounts.

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