Senior Quality Engineer

The Company:
Marigold helps brands foster customer relationships through the science and art of connection. Marigold Relationship Marketing is a suite of world-class martech solutions that help marketers create long term customer love and loyalty. Marigold provides the most comprehensive set of use cases for marketers at any level. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Marigold has offices globally across the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Central America, as well as in Japan.
 

The Role:
 

Marigold is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to join its fast-growing engineering team who will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting automated testing  solutions and infrastructure for Marigold’s cutting-edge Cross-Channel Messaging Platform, a market-leading enterprise solution used by major brands in North America, Europe, and Asia. Marigold’s Messaging Platform processes and analyzes billions of transactions per day on various tech stacks. The Senior Quality Engineer will work closely with Marigold’s cross-functional teams to deliver resilient and scalable test solutions for its continuous integration and continuous deployment process and to ensure product quality. 

The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical foundation and skills to deliver automated test solutions, an analytical ability to identify performance bottlenecks and scale solutions, an aptitude for quality and a collaborative mindset to learn and contribute while working closely with team members. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Analyze product requirements and translate them into manual tests and automation test candidates

• Design and develop resilient and scalable solutions/framework for test automation

• Develop and support Messaging Services by writing efficient, maintainable code to meet requirements and adhere to security standards

• Work through all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to review test plans for gaps and completeness

• Execute black-box and, or white-box testing on areas not covered through automation

• Review team code commits and sign-off on commit quality and adherence to standards

• Conduct large-scale performance benchmarks and analyze metrics to help identify bottlenecks

• Investigate, analyze and address reported defects in a timely manner

• Deliver technical documentation

• Mentor junior team members for technical growth

Ideal Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

• 5+ years professional experience in enterprise-level software design, development and testing 

• Strong understanding of cloud-native distributed scalable development concepts

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals including object oriented programming, design patterns and data structures

• Working experience in writing resilient and scalable automation testing

• Working knowledge in microservice design and development practices

• Proficient in C# and .NET core

• Relational DB experience with Microsoft SQL Server or, MySQL

• Working experience in scripting languages such as Powershell

• Working experience in API benchmarking with tools such as JMeter, Postman

• Working with modern CI/CD pipelines and practices

• Any working experience in Java is a plus

• Working experience in data-streaming like Kafka is a plus

• Working experience in Docker containers and Kubernetes is a plus

• Strong understanding of how each solution the team implements will work entirely from the user's (or customer's) perspective, as well as how the necessary changes will interact with other components across the infrastructure ecosystem

• Good English communication skills, both verbal and written

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance

• Unlimited PTO (we call it Open Time Away), leave without pay, bereavement leave, marriage, paid parental and birthday leave

• Meal and transportation subsidy

• English program

• Employees’ Association

• Supportive work environment with flexible work hours and hybrid / work from home options