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Automation Engineer I

SpotHero · Chicago, IL, United States · On-site

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About SpotHero

Find, book, and save on parking with convenient garages, lots, and valets near you. Find parking near work, home, airports, and events with the help of SpotHero. Backed by Insight and 500 Global.

About the role

SpotHero is seeking an Automation Engineer to join one of our engineering teams within the Quality Guild. This role blends hands-on manual testing with the writing and long-term maintenance of automated test suites, working shoulder-to-shoulder with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers to keep our releases fast and reliable as SpotHero scales. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience writing and maintaining automated tests with Playwright (or a comparable framework such as Cypress, Selenium, or WebdriverIO)
  • Working proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript or Python
  • Hands-on manual QA experience including functional, regression, exploratory, and/or black-box testing
  • Comfort working in Git/GitHub and collaborating through pull requests and code review
  • Familiarity with Jira/Confluence-based Scrum workflows
  • Strong communication skills. You can clearly represent the state of testing to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
More about this role

At SpotHero, we work as a team to empower people to get everywhere, easier! We’re rapidly growing with the mission of bringing the parking industry into the future through technology. Drivers across the nation use the SpotHero mobile app and website to reserve convenient, affordable parking in advance, on-the-go or through their connected cars, and parking companies rely on us to help them reach new customers while optimizing their business. We connect the dots with cutting-edge technology, delivering value to both sides of this exciting, evolving marketplace. We’ve been quite busy, take a peek at some of our recent announcements .

SpotHero is seeking an Automation Engineer to join one of our engineering teams within the Quality Guild. This role blends hands-on manual testing with the writing and long-term maintenance of automated test suites, working shoulder-to-shoulder with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers to keep our releases fast and reliable as SpotHero scales.

As an Automation Engineer, you'll be embedded in a team, participating in all of its ceremonies and reporting into that teams’ structure, while also staying closely connected to our central Automation team and...

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