Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Quality Engineering)

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2024 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?

About the role

Flex is looking for talented test automation engineers to help us build, scale, and improve test automation coverage for our apps and APIs. You’ll work closely with product and engineering teams to understand the desired user experience and build test automation to enable fast development iterations without sacrificing the quality of our releases. This person should be comfortable working with different teams, technologies, and stakeholders in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Strong communication and analytical skills are very desirable traits. We believe quality is something bigger than a role.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with product and engineering to understand and clarify test requirements
• Develop a comprehensive automation testing strategy to support mobile, web and API releases
• Provide innovative technical solutions to enhance existing automated testing frameworks and support the development of new testing capabilities
• Design and write robust tests that promote stability and maintainability
• Identify and assist in resolving issues with automated tests
• Partner with your quality engineering peers to develop test plans to support our releases
• Improve our release testing efficiency by automating common QA tasks
• Champion quality engineering best practices and drive adoption of quality improvements

Key qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in web and mobile testing with a focus on automation
• 3+ years of experience in integration testing and UI automation
• Extensive experience testing web services and RESTful APIs
• Proficient in developing automated tests using Selenium, Detox or similar tools
• Experience supporting high-volume traffic web applications
• Experience with source control using Git
• Experience with Postman or similar API testing tools
• Ability to work independently, owning project and quality outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong understanding of SQL and RDBMs
• Professional working proficiency with English
• Experience with Java and React applications
• Experience with observability tools, cloud infrastructure, distributed services

The national pay range for this role is $197,000-$213,000 in base salary. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience aligned with Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.

Life at Flex:

We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.

We offer many employee benefits. For full time, U.S. based employees we offer:

• Competitive pay
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) + company stock options
• Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
• Free Flex subscription