Harman

About the Role

Join our team as a Senior QA Engineer and help ensure the quality and reliability of a revolutionary new music discovery product. You'll play a critical role in designing and implementing scalable, efficient, and robust testing strategies that enable us to deliver a high quality product, then improve it continuously into the future. This is a unique opportunity to be our first QA hire and spearhead the creation of our QA systems and approach. Our product is modern, challenging, and ambitious, delivering a first-class, highly engaging user experience that integrates content delivery, audio playback, machine learning, and recommendation systems. Join us in transforming the world of music consumption.

What You Will Do

• Operate in a fast-paced, startup-like environment within Harman.
• Work with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
• Serve as the authority on quality assurance for a complex music discovery platform, including mobile app, backend services, data pipelines, and user experience.
• Take full ownership of the testing strategy, from defining test plans to developing and maintaining automated and manual testing frameworks.
• Ensure high standards of quality across all aspects of the product, including functionality, performance, reliability, data experience, and user experience.
• Actively engage with business and product stakeholders in an iterative, dynamic environment.
• Collaborate closely with app developers, engineers, and product management to ensure the platform meets quality standards and project goals.
• Take on a leadership role as we grow the QA team in the future, mentoring junior team members and helping to define the team's strategy and direction.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Experience: 10+ years in Quality Assurance, with a strong focus on testing fully localized mobile applications that incorporate backend services, data pipelines, and recommendation systems.
• Technical Skills: Deep understanding of modern QA methodologies, best practices, and tools, with a specific focus on testing Flutter applications, including widget testing, integration testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, and localization testing.
• Testing Tools: Expertise with Flutter's built-in testing frameworks (flutter_test, integration_test), as well as external tools like Appium for cross-platform testing and tools for verifying localization and internationalization.
• CI/CD Integration: Proven track record of integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• System Architecture: Strong knowledge of testing strategies for complex systems, including mobile apps, databases, APIs, event-driven architectures, real-time data systems, and multi-language support.
• Automation: Skilled in automating testing workflows, including unit tests, widget tests, integration tests, performance testing, regression testing, and testing for localization/internationalization in Flutter apps.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring junior QA engineers and contributing to building a robust QA team and strategy as we scale.
• Collaboration: Ability to work closely with Flutter developers, product management, and stakeholders to align testing practices with business goals, including ensuring the product meets localization and internationalization standards.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.
• A passion for music and interest in working on products that bring joy to music lovers worldwide.
• Experience with social products or recommendation systems
• Experience testing audio software products

What Makes You Eligible

• Position is 100% Remote
• You must be available for meetings and team interaction during typical continental US business hours.
• Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally.  
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment.

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