Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - QA
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.
Since 2020, Lyft Mexico has been building its team and in May 2022, we opened an office in the heart of Mexico City. We have grown to nearly 200 team members across key business areas in the country, and we are looking to continue growing by providing team members with the best work experience.
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 Assurance (QA) will be responsible for driving testing activities, such as test plan & strategy definition, implementation of test case design techniques to detect positive, negative and corner cases, execute test cases and report results along with issues detected. This is a hands-on position. You will collaborate closely with test automation, product and dev teams.
Responsibilities:- Test complex mobile applications and APIs that reference database back-end systems, collaborating with engineering and product teams to define test plans
- Develop a cohesive quality strategy for multiple teams, based on the end user experience, business goals, and technical understanding of their products
- Perform thoughtful test plan reviews for colleagues to ensure quality and distribute knowledge
- Identify needs for teamwide improvements and work with manager and teammates to implement them
- Evaluate test coverage across platforms and test types (unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, etc.) and identify the highest impact opportunities for improving coverage
- Advocate for Quality initiatives and best practices within the organization, engaging with engineers, product owners, and managers
- Unblock, support and effectively communicate cross functionally in order to achieve results
- Share your knowledge by mentoring others (including other Quality Assurance Engineers), giving brown bags and tech talks, and promoting engineering and quality best practices
- Participate in hiring activities: take part in technical interviews, share detailed feedback to hiring best technical talent in the function
- 6+ years of experience in quality assurance or manual testing for software
- Strong understanding of how to test applications across platforms – mobile, web, API, and server – using multiple tools and strategies
- Hands-on experience developing test plans, executing manual tests, and reporting bugs for complex features of mobile and web applications
- Ability to prioritize and coordinate work across a large number of features or product teams
- Very good understanding of and ability to troubleshoot the testing ecosystem (plus points for mobile experience)
- Has built systems and processes that increase the productivity of other quality engineers
- Track record of improving efficiency, especially through automation and improving testing strategies
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule if an established Lyft Location is available to the Mexico City region — Hybrid 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.