Job Description

Dealership:

L0105 Lithia Home Office

Lithia Motors, Inc

Senior Quality Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer champions testing and quality of delivery within a small team of software engineers who work on different parts of our tech stack. The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for writing automated tests, creating test plans, and assisting other engineers in implementing best practices to maintain high quality code. The Senior Quality Engineer also provides org-wide guidance on quality, and develops the skills of Quality Engineers across our organization.

The Senior Quality Engineer reports to the Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

* Create and maintain robust automated test suites for their team with little guidance
* Identify, classify, and document bugs in production and pre-production code
* Collaborate with other Quality Engineers across team boundaries to share best practices and form org-wide testing standards
* Develops the discipline of Quality Engineering within our org by advocating for and teaching best practices
* Work with software engineers early in the development process to identify edge cases for testing
* Perform integration and E2E tests to ensure cross-team dependencies remain healthy
* Create testing plans for major feature releases
* Work with our DevOps team to ensure coverage reports and quality gates are built into our pipelines

Skills and Qualifications

* 7+ years delivering high-scale, high-performance web applications
* A thorough background in platforms running with a leading cloud provider, preferably Azure
* Experience with container-driven development environments
* Mastery in writing automated integration tests with tools such as Postman, Selenium, or Cypress
* Mastery in writing automated performance tests with tools such as Gatling, JMeter, or K6
* Working with some of our core technologies such as React and Kotlin
* A rich experience working with both relational and non-relational data structures

Competencies

* An excellent communicator, able to address gaps and opportunities with the greater team constructively
* Leadership qualities to drive the socialization and adoption of best practices across all teams
* Self-motivates, believes in accountability, focuses on results, makes plans and follows through
* Believes in humility, empathy, shares best practices, desires to keep learning, measures performance and adapts to improve results
* Thrives on a team, stays positive, lives our values

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.*

* Up to 1/3 of time: standing, walking, lifting up to 25 pounds
* Up to 2/3 of time: sitting, kneeling, reaching, talking, hearing

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

NOTE: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the job. While this list is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the company reserves the right to revise



We offer best in class industry benefits:

* Competitive pay
* Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
* Paid Holidays & PTO
* Short and Long-Term Disability
* Paid Life Insurance
* 401(k) Retirement Plan
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan
* Lithia Learning Center
* Vehicle Purchase Discounts
* Wellness Programs

High School graduate or equivalent, 18 years or older required. Acceptable driving record and a valid driver's license in your state of residence necessary for select roles. We are a drug free workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity (regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status). We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.