Hardware Quality Engineer

Full Time
Montreal, QC, Canada
9 months ago

At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

Lyft needs experienced engineers from a breadth of disciplines. Our team has a history of enabling rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride-sharing industry. We constantly innovate and incorporate cutting-edge technologies to make the lives of our community more enriched.

A Quality Engineer (QE) will be driving force behind a comprehensive test strategy to complement our test automation. This is a hands-on position. You will schedule and participate in internal testing events, collaborate closely with product feature teams as they develop new features, and ensure every release happens on time without regression.

Responsibilities:
  • Plan, create, and execute tests for validating Lyft’s mobile apps
  • Perform exploratory testing and assist in the identification and design of test automation
  • Improve our existing test automation frameworks and infrastructure and support engineers in writing additional UI test
  • Develop test plan by collaborating with the cross-functional team and identify tests for automation or automate them
  • Maintain existing UI tests, monitor failures and report bugs
  • Design and implement test strategy to improve efficiency in manual testing
  • Build and maintain systems to monitor test stability and report stability issues back to engineers
Experience:
  • Strong experience in developing and documenting test plan, test cases and reporting bugs for complex features
  • Solid experience in building automation frameworks and writing reliable and maintainable automated tests
  • Have worked on web/mobile platform and have a very good understanding of and ability to troubleshoot the testing ecosystem (plus points for mobile experience)
  • Strong object-oriented programming experience
  • Proficiency in Java/Kotlin or Swift for mobile platforms
  • Familiarity with Espresso/XCUItest is strongly desired
  • Track record of improving efficiency, especially through automation, balancing short-term and long-term priorities
  • Have significant experience and willingness to work with other teams such as engineering, product and release teams
  • Are constantly thinking ahead, and building for future changes in an ever-changing mobile ecosystem
  • Shows a passion for learning, especially through looking at new processes and tools that have significant impact on engineering teams
  • Experience of prioritizing and coordinating work across a large number of product teams is a plus
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience of prioritizing and coordinating work across a large number of product teams is a plus
Benefits:
  • Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
  • Mental health benefits
  • Family building benefits
  • Access to a Health Care Savings Account
  • In addition to provincial observed holidays, team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service 
  • 4 Floating Holidays each calendar year prorated based off of date of hire
  • 10 paid sick days per year regardless of province
  • 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy.  Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Thursdays and a team-specific third day. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year.