Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lendable is a fintech company building technology to help people get credit and save money. The Staff Quality Engineer will own mobile test strategy, build automation-first quality frameworks and CI tooling, and improve reliability across React Native products. The role also involves applying AI-assisted testing, reducing flakiness, preventing defects, and partnering with engineering and product teams on quality improvements.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve a pragmatic test pyramid for React Native - deciding where E2E is worth the weight and where logic belongs in faster layers (Jest, React Testing Library, component tests)
- Make deliberate calls about coverage, reliability, and speed trade-offs across the app
- Set the bar for what "ready to ship" looks like on mobile, and hold the line on it
- Rotating around different product teams for short periods to level up quality
- Define and evolve the pragmatic test pyramid for our products - deciding where E2E is worth the weight and where testing belongs in faster layers (unit and component tests)
- Make deliberate calls about coverage, reliability, and speed trade-offs across our products
- Devise and set up performance benchmarks to ensure critical parts of our systems don't regress
- Speed up our SDLC by building agents that exploratory test changes and catch issues before they get to production
- Use AI tools day-to-day to accelerate test authoring, cluster failures, surface coverage insights, and propose fixes
- Decide where AI adds leverage and where a human eye is needed. A test suite that looks comprehensive but isn't trustworthy is worse than a smaller one we rely on
- Discover gaps in testing and help teams build comprehensive suites
- Get test environments and data fixtures to a level where they are easy to use and reliable
- Drive flakiness down and time-to-diagnosis down. We treat a flaky test the same way we treat a broken test, and we expect root-cause work rather than retry-until-green
- Partner with product and engineering on shift-left quality: join specs early, push back on ambiguous acceptance criteria, and surface risk before code is written
- Close the loop on production issues using our observability stack (Datadog, Sentry, Grafana) - tying test coverage back to real customer impact
- Ensure teams have Service Level Objectives set up and are achieving them
- Run targeted exploratory testing on high-risk releases when it's the right call
Skills
- • Hands-on experience with Maestro or Detox
- • 5+ years in quality engineering or test automation, with a track record of keeping automated suites stable rather than letting them rot into a graveyard of quarantined tests
- • Experience working in a scaled engineering environment with multiple teams pulling in different directions and priorities, and know how to navigate that to drive quality improvements across them
- • Hands-on coding experience of writing test code, frameworks, CI pipelines and other helper scripts. You know what a good test codebase looks like and you constantly improve it
- • API and contract testing experience, with a point of view on test data and environment strategy
- • Have set up and used Service Level Objectives to define a contract of system reliability with stakeholders, and driven measurable improvements against them
- • Native AI-assisted working style. You can describe projects where AI meaningfully changed how you worked - test authoring, failure triage, coverage analysis - and where you decided it wasn't the right tool
- • Coaching other disciplines in quality. You evangelise quality practices and get others on board to solve quality problems together
- • Experience shaping CI/CD pipelines for test reliability (GitHub Actions or similar), including flakiness reduction, parallelisation, artefact management, and runtime control
- • Proactive, low-ego, and clear communicator, able to chase things down when blocked
- • Able to operate independently and drive improvements end-to-end (frameworks, CI, test data, reporting)
- • Can point to 3-4 projects where you moved the needle on quality - for example improving SLO coverage or reducing incident rate - and can speak to the measurable impact of each
- • Hands-on experience testing React Native apps
- • Mobile performance and reliability work (crash reporting, startup time, memory and battery awareness)
- • API and contract testing experience, with a point of view on test data and environment strategy
Benefits
- Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites
- Opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls
- Support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover
- Retirement savings plans
- Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members
- Fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations
- Cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations
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