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You'll build the automation framework our developers contribute to, coach them until testing is a normal part of their work, and establish how we measure quality in the first place. Unit tests already belong to the developers - our direction is for that ownership to extend further, with you building the foundation and the capability that makes it realistic.\nWhat you'll do\nEnhance and own the test automation framework developers write in - fast, stable, and easy enough that people actually use it\nBuild CI quality gates, test data, and environments so a developer can test properly without waiting on anyone\nMake quality measurable by design: define success metrics for every meaningful change, establish the baseline, track the impact, and use the data to guide decisions, validate outcomes, and drive further improvements\nPair with and coach developers on test design - the goal is the team testing more\nJoin refinement and design early, and push on requirements that can't be tested as written\nBuild deep product expertise and use it to focus effort on the risks that actually matter\nDo exploratory and risk-based testing where human judgement beats a script\nWhat we're looking for\n6+ years in software testing, with real depth in both automation and exploratory testing\nYou've enhanced or substantially rebuilt a test framework, not only written tests inside someone else's\nStrong programming ability, and comfort creating and debugging CI pipelines yourself\nData literacy: you can define a metric, build the collection for it, and say when it's lying\nA track record of changing how other engineers work, through coaching and influence rather than authority\nCuriosity about the product and the people using it, not just the code\nOur stack: TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Docker. 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