Posted at: 29 January

Software Engineer in Test

Company

Instructure

Instructure is a Salt Lake City-based EdTech B2B company specializing in educational software solutions, including its flagship product Canvas, serving higher education and K-12 markets globally.

Remote Hiring Policy:

Instructure primarily hires from the United States, particularly Utah, but offers remote roles in various regions such as EMEA. Candidates from these regions are encouraged to apply.

Job Type

Full-time

Allowed Applicant Locations

United States

Salary

$90,000 to $130,000 per year

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Job Description

Software Engineer in Test

US-Remote
R&D – Engineering /
Full-time /
Remote
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At Instructure, we are building the world's best ecosystem for teaching and learning. Millions of students and teachers use our products around the world, and we're always finding ways to innovate and improve their experience.

We are hiring world class software engineers to solve some of education's hardest problems at cloud-scale. By focusing on our values — ownership, openness, simplicity, and relationships — and using a modern stack that includes Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React, Go, and Docker, we are changing the way that teachers teach and students learn.

If that sounds interesting, we should talk.

Who we are:

    • We're an education technology company with a mission to elevate student success, amplify the power of teaching, and inspire everyone to learn together.

    • Our world-class engineering team is tackling education's hardest problems at cloud-scale. Guided by our core values — openness, relationships, equality, ownership, and simplicity — and using a modern stack that includes Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React, Go, and Docker, we are transforming the way teachers teach and students learn.

What You'll Do:

    • Design and implement automated testing strategies across multiple projects, ensuring comprehensive and scalable test coverage.
    • Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts in a variety of test frameworks and languages.
    • Serve as a subject matter expert on testing best practices, mentoring other engineers and influencing the adoption of quality-driven development processes within the organization.
    • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define testing requirements, acceptance criteria, and ensure that features are adequately tested before release.
    • Take ownership of CI/CD pipelines related to test automation, ensuring they run efficiently and effectively, and that any issues are promptly identified and addressed.
    • Act as a gatekeeper for quality, participating in code reviews, and providing critical feedback to ensure adherence to testing standards and best practices.
    • Stay ahead of industry trends and innovations, bringing new tools, techniques, and ideas into the organization to continually improve our testing capabilities.
    • Drive company-wide initiatives aimed at improving the quality and reliability of our products, working on large-scale projects that impact multiple teams.

What we look for:

    • Engineers with a passion for delivering high-quality inclusive experiences on behalf of our customers, teachers, and learners around the world.
    • Team members who exemplify "being on point" by demonstrating focus, preparedness, and high performance in their work, as well as in their interactions with others.
    • Roughly 4+ years of experience in software development or test automation with expertise in writing automated tests.
    • Experience with a variety of test automation frameworks and automation best practices; for example, POM
    • Ability to lead test strategy for large-scale projects, lean in to mentoring others and drive quality initiatives across teams.
    • Knowledge of CI/CD processes and the ability to manage and optimize testing pipelines
    • Ability to solve complex testing problems creatively and effectively with a focus on automation at scale.
    • Communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence decision-making and build consensus across the organization

Get in on all the awesome at Instructure:

    • 401k with company match
    • HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D 
    • Tuition reimbursement
    • Lifestyle Spending Account
    • Paid time off, 11 paid holidays, and flexible work schedules 
    • Motivosity - employee recognition program
$90,000 - $130,000 a year
We’ve always believed in hiring the most awesome people and treating them right. We know that the more diverse we are, the more diverse our ideas will be and when we openly welcome those ideas, our environment is better and our business is stronger.

At Instructure we participate in E-Verify and yes, in case you didn't catch it from the above, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired.
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