About the Role

At Namely, we are self-starters and problem solvers, obsessed with creating the best experience for our clients. We are a team of smart and self-motivated engineers who are eager to learn, grow and collaborate with other great engineers. Each person is an owner of their work and directly impacts the success of our products and company.

Namely’s mission is to help mid-sized companies build a better workplace. We are transforming HR, payroll and benefits into a platform and experience HR professionals and employees love to use. People are at the center of everything we do, and we believe every company and employee deserves a great workplace, supported by innovative HR technology.

The Software Developer in Test (SDET) team’s mission is to build tools and frameworks that enable Software Engineers and Quality Analysts to easily, efficiently and comprehensively ensure the high quality of our applications.

The SDET Manager leads and mentors a team of smart, diverse and driven engineers. You ensure we deliver the right solutions to drive quality and testing automation throughout the organization. You empower and develop your team but also have the technical chops to roll up your sleeves and implement hands-on alongside your team.

Help us scale our business to meet the needs of our growing customer base and develop new products on the Namely platform. You'll be a critical part of our growing company, guiding a team through best practices in technology, architecture, and process.

Responsibilities

Drive quarterly objectives to successful completion, working with managers and technical leadership across other engineering teams.

Guide the team in gathering requirements, architecting and building the tools, frameworks, systems and processes that Namely engineers use to ensure the quality of their software.

Drive adoption of SDET solutions across all engineering teams

Promote and implement best practices in quality software engineering and testable software within an iterative delivery model.

Dive in with hands-on implementation, especially in helping to unblock, pair with or strategically offload your team.

Be a technical thought leader to bring new ideas and methodologies to our growing team.

Mentor and coach team members

Foster cross-functional relationships across engineering, QA, product, design, and business functions.

Requirements

2+ years in an SDET/QA Automation manager role

4+ years in an SDET/QA Automation engineer role

Proven track record of technical leadership at a software product company with a strong engineering culture.

Experience driving implementation and adoption of automation and a culture of quality across engineering

Experience with mobile, web and microservices applications backed by RDBMSs

Experience with event stream-driven applications a strong plus

Experience managing agile processes and Sprint rituals, including prioritization, estimation and delivery

Strong software development skills in at least one programming language. We use Go, C#/.NET Core, Ruby, JS and Python.

Strong Selenium Webdriver experience

About Namely

Namely was founded in 2012 to create an HR platform as intuitive as social media, but powerful enough to support the complexity of today’s workforce. Our belief is that great companies are built on a great employee experience, which is why we created the first HR platform employees love to use. In fact, unlike most traditional HR software, 78% of our clients’ employees log in to Namely at least once per month! Namely is backed by some amazing VCs including Sequoia, and serves companies in just about every industry and state nationwide. We love mid-sized companies because they’re mission-driven, client-obsessed, and care deeply about their employees... just like us. We believe in giving you the tools you need to do the best work of your career, and we’re just getting started.