Quality Engineer

About the role:

The Platform Quality Engineering team works with teams across Samsara’s Cloud Platform to ensure mobile, web, and API products function with high quality. The team’s goal is to cultivate a quality culture that produces best in class product reliability, usability, and performance across all of our platform development teams.

We're looking for a self-driven, experienced QE for our team who has a real passion for quality, and strives to innovate and try new things, incorporating continuous improvement of testing methods. Someone who has the quality mindset and can find all the ways to ensure our products are high quality and has the motivation and experience to automate tests to make it easy to catch bugs quickly.

This role is open to candidates residing in the US except the San Francisco Bay Area (125 mi. radius from 1 De Haro St, San Francisco) and NYC Metro Area (50 mi. radius from 131 W 55th St, New York)

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software, firmware, and hardware you build will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers, you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the world's physical operations.
• You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies, challenges, and customers that push us to learn on the go.
• You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews, collaborate with customer success and product managers, and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
• You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission, we’re all racing toward our connected operations vision, and we intend to win—together.

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will: 

• Be a part of a development team, quickly understand the product, the architecture and come up with a plan to test/validate functionality, and identify and target weaknesses
• Be a part of the development process, collaborating with the engineering and product teams to discover details of proposed functionality, spotting gaps/conflicts and understanding upcoming work
• Rapidly diagnose issues and perform root cause analysis with backend, mobile, and fullstack developers
• Execute manual and automated test plans across the backend, mobile and web
• Develop test fixtures using a hands-on approach to shift from a manual end-to-end testing environment to an automated one.
• Design, write and deliver high quality test fixtures, frameworks and build tools to production standards as part of team sprints
• Document, structure and maintain automated test cases and code used for test execution
• Track performance, report results to management, drive issues to closure
• Authors and maintains effective (clear & organized) documentation
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 4+ years of experience in a quality engineering function.
• 2+ years of experience in developing test suites using QA automation tools like Selenium, Cypress etc.
• Proficiency with programming and querying languages: SQL along with either Javascript or Python 
• Proven abilities for effective troubleshooting, debugging and perform root cause analysis
• Strong communication skills, comfortable working with distributed teams from diverse backgrounds

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience working in teams operating in the IOT domain
• Experience creating automation frameworks and automating products across multiple surfaces: mobile, web, and API.
• Proficiency with programming and querying languages: GoLang