
Senior Test Engineer
About The Weather Company:
The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).
Job brief:
We’re looking for a Senior Test Engineer who is passionate about delivering high-quality software and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. In this role, you’ll take ownership of quality across complex features and systems, designing robust test strategies and driving test automation initiatives. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that every release is stable, secure, and performs seamlessly for users across platforms.
This is a hands-on position that requires technical expertise, critical thinking, and a passion for problem-solving. If you're someone who enjoys diving deep into systems, mentoring others, and continually evolving testing processes, this role is for you.
The impact you'll make:
- Review and analyze system specifications. Understand the application function and underlying logic for complex features, subsystems, and APIs.
- Ensure user stories contain acceptance and performance requirements as appropriate.
- Develop and catalog effective strategies and test plans.
- Estimate test development and execution effort/schedule.
- Develop and execute automated UI, functional, security, regression, performance/load tests.
- Evaluate and document test results.
- Research new technologies, tools, and testing procedures to continuously improve processes.
- Help troubleshoot issues.
- Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Ability to prioritize work assignments to meet deadlines.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to junior QA team members.
- Other duties as assigned.
What you've accomplished:
- 5+ years of experience as a QA Engineer or similar role.
- Knowledge of software development methodologies and processes.
- Experience with Agile frameworks and regression testing.
- Experience with automated testing and automated test frameworks.
- Experience with Java or other programming languages.
- Experience with key AWS technologies such as EC2, EKS, S3, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with various software testing platforms, including: API, web, and mobile application (iOS and Android), service, back-end, machine learning, and other technologies as appropriate.
- Experience with software troubleshooting tools, including the use of proxies to manipulate test data.
- Working knowledge of source code management software (e.g., GitHub).
- Experience with test infrastructure software and integrations with test frameworks.
- Ability to document and troubleshoot errors.
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Curiosity, an analytical perspective, and problem-solving aptitude.
- Experience with Figma or similar tools.
- Experience with BrowserStack or similar.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of test management software (e.g., TestRail).
- Working knowledge of issue management software (e.g., Jira).
- Experience with Jenkins or other automation pipelines and executing pipelines.
- Experience testing on a variety of operating systems, including Microsoft-based products.
- Flexible Time Off program
- Hybrid work model
- A variety of medical insurance options, including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
- Benefits effective day 1 of employment include a competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
- Progressive family plan benefits
- An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
- Impactful work in a collaborative environment
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