Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.

Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

LiveRamp is looking for an experienced Staff SDET for the Quality Engineering team. The candidate's primary focus will be to prepare product release standards and processes, and to automate user journey scenarios to enable the process as efficiently as possible.  The primary goal is to support LiveRamp’s product so it can move fast without breaking things.

You will:

● Design and develop the product’s release quality assurance flow to fit the organization’s situation.

● Partner with PM to prepare the user case & journey of the umbrella product. 

● Partner with TPM and the dev lead to manage the overall release status through the release management tool.

● Thinking from the user perspective as a product expert to improve the user experience.

● Design and develop product-level performance testing.

● Design and develop product-level end-to-end automation to accelerate the product release cycle.

● Prepare and share product knowledge with the SRE and Technical support team.

● Troubleshoot Customer-reported Product Issues

● Technical lead of small groups of 2-3 Software Quality Engineers.

● Take the platoon lead's role to enable the quality process in the dev team. Learn the tech stack deeply.

Your team will: 

I need your help enabling the quality process for the dev team, and I’m expecting you to become the product expert, covering functionality and the backend tech stack.

About you: 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science + 10 years in: 

● 6 years of previous experience as an enterprise-level Software Developer in a Test role

● 6 years of Hands-on experience in Test Strategy, Test Plan, Design, and Execution for  enterprise-level Functional, Integration, and PSR testing

● 4 years of Hands-on experience on Robustness testing tools like JMeter

● 6 years of Hands-on developer skills in any of the programming languages: Python, Java

● 2 years of Hands-on experience in setting up cloud test environments using Google Cloud 

   Platform, Amazon Web Services, etc.

● 5 years of Hands-on Work experience in agile and as an integrated Quality Engineer in the Scrum Team

Preferred Skills:

• 2+ years of software engineering experience in the front end or back end will be great.

• 2+ years of previous experience as a tech lead to organize testing around microservices and UI.

The approximate annual base compensation range is $152,500 to $229,500. The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be determined by a number of factors including the applicant's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, geography, as well as internal equity among our team.

• People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.

• Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues. 

• Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.

• Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives.  Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.

• Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.  Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)

• RampRemote: A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located

LiveRamp is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled) and does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, training, promotion or other employment of associates or the awarding of subcontracts because of a person's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, protected veteran, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics or other protected status. Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. 

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