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Hudl · 21 hours ago

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Frontends Development

Hudl is a company that builds great teams and is recognized as one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. They are seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer for the Frontends Development team to empower product squads in designing and building modern, scalable, and accessible front-end applications while ensuring high-quality standards through effective automation and collaboration.

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Responsibilities

Communication and Team Alignment: You'll lead the charge in shifting testing left, using data to identify and solve defect trends in our front-end systems. This involves coaching squads on new automation approaches while confidently advocating for your quality vision among other leaders
Squad Quality: You will have full ownership over squad quality, using data to solve problems and reduce defect leakage into production. You'll proactively identify ways to prevent defects from ever reaching the codebase, focusing specifically on challenges within our monorepo structure. You will be given general quality problems and will have complete ownership to define "done" and implement a solution
Automation Leadership: You will have full ownership over the technical excellence and strategy of our automation, ensuring it keeps up with development speed. You'll proactively research and implement new technologies while coaching and leading your team on major automation initiatives
Cross-team collaboration. You’ll work across departments to drive alignment on front-end quality initiatives, ensuring scalable solutions meet long-term strategic objectives while also maintaining focus on immediate technical excellence
Proactive quality assurance. By anticipating quality risks and organizational needs, you’ll proactively identify and address potential obstacles to prevent defects before they arise
Strategic execution. You’ll own long-term quality and engineering objectives while ensuring day-to-day execution aligns with delivering high-quality, reliable and efficient solutions
Industry advancements. You’ll leverage technical expertise and industry insights to drive continuous improvement, ensuring our quality processes and frameworks evolve with technological advancements

Qualification

Automation LeadershipFull-stack TestingTechnical ExpertiseData AnalysisRisk MitigationCoachingQuality FocusPlaywright ExpertiseProblem SolvingCross-team Collaboration

Required

You know how to influence and coach teams even though they don't report to you
You are skilled at guiding developers to adopt best practices, like integrating components into Storybook and writing resilient tests
You have experience leading complex, full-stack, and multi-platform quality initiatives
You can drive change and help squads transition from legacy projects to modern monorepo-based development
You have the ability to determine the strategy and/or technology solutions for specific areas of the product
You have a deep understanding of your domain, and you're able to understand and navigate complex systems
You have knowledge and experience with full-stack testing and in-depth knowledge of automation on multiple platforms
You are proactive in adopting new technologies and methodologies
You excel at understanding the root cause of problems, particularly those related to flaky tests and inconsistent user interfaces
You are able to back up your findings with data and measure the results of your actions
You are detail-driven and can identify, analyze, and solve challenging problems
Given a general problem, you have the autonomy to define and implement the solution
You have a clear understanding of what quality success looks like, not just at a project level, but at a platform level
You understand how our users define quality and know when that definition changes
You can evaluate and design a testing approach to mitigate risk, especially when it comes to consolidating development and migrating legacy projects

Preferred

If you've used Playwright to build automation test suites and have worked with mocking data, it is a plus

Benefits

Flexible vacation time above any required statutory leave
Company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days
Remote work options
Medical and retirement benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Employee resource groups

Company

Hudl is a software platform that provides video analysis and coaching tools for sports teams.

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$228.85M
Key Investors
Bain Capital Tech OpportunitiesAccel
2020-05-21Series F· $120M
2018-12-07Convertible Note
2017-07-06Series D· $30M

Leadership Team

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David Graff
CEO
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Brian Kaiser
CTO at Hudl
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