Job description
About us
Onebrief is a revolutionary platform for military staff workflows and operational planning. The software is designed to enable smarter, real-time decisions. With unparalleled collaboration features, AI-enhanced tools, and customizable workflows, Onebrief makes staffs superhuman. The expanding roster of customers includes COCOMs and Service Components worldwide.
Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s workforce of 120+ spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software giants. Onebrief’s growth is exemplary, having raised $53M+ and counting from leading venture investors.
What you will achieve
As a quality champion, you will hold your engineering team(s) accountable for meeting the right release quality bar in the following ways:
Weighing in early in the dev cycle (during the design process), to identify rabbit-holes and potential problems in areas like performance, security, usability, and unintended cascading breakage in adjacent areas — before code is written
Developing test plans, quality-related procedures (like bug bashes, defect triage, etc.), and documentation that support developers as they build new features
Writing automated tests at multiple layers of the pyramid (unit, integration, e2e) with the goal of always shifting defect detection as far left as possible
Coordinating with other teams to communicate how your teams’ work will impact their work — before it is merged
Conducting exploratory testing and root cause analysis as needed, and mentoring others in this skill
Exercising excellent judgement to identify and negotiate quality trade-offs that will inevitably arise in a software development environment that’s highly responsive to customer demand
Working with your fellow engineers to develop first class quality metrics that align with overall quality strategy, with a focus on monitoring and observability
About You
You’re an experienced quality engineer who knows how to break stuff — a thoughtful meticulous professional who brings discipline and craftsmanship to the pursuit of making resilient well-tested software. You love working directly with designers and software engineers to develop and share patterns and practices that ensure the products you build and release as a team meet the highest standards. You are also an effective agent of change and an outstanding communicator.
Qualifications
You are a trained and experienced (4+ years) QA engineer, who’s worked extensively testing framework and tooling, particularly in the JS/TS, React and Node.js context
You understand what it means to be a quality champion for your team, not just owning quality, but leading a dev team towards quality ownership.
You understand, and have worked in a left shifted environment before.
You are an expert at writing and executing test cases
You love to investigate, triage, document, and communicate complex issues in a clear and concise manner
You have a strong technical background and are a proficient programmer
You have a comprehensive understanding of the current state of web technology and best practices
You are a stickler for great developer experience and have frequently rolled up your sleeves and found solutions that made the whole team better
Nice to haves — experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines that make use of:
Github Actions (or similar) declarative pipelines
Contract testing
Visual regression testing, either homegrown or 3rd party
API endpoint testing
Load and/or performance testing
Log analysis with a tool like: Datadog, Kibana, or Prometheus
Docker, Kubernetes
Most importantly, you are a true Onebriefer:
You are obsessed with creating value for real users
You are ambitious, scrappy, and a creative problem-solver
You learn quickly, work iteratively, and naturally seek collaboration
You approach your work with integrity, intellectual honesty, and a low ego
You communicate frankly, clearly, and succinctly
You thrive as a self-starter, embracing autonomy and ambiguity
