Staff Automation Engineer, Quality Engineering

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

Community Overview

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable, fault-tolerant systems.

The Difference You Will Make

As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.

As a Staff Automation Engineer, you will build and maintain automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with product engineering teams to develop and maintain test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability. You should be eager to understand complex systems end-to-end and thrive working across technologies and codebases. You excel at working through ambiguity, validating concepts, and implementing best-in-class solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of a test automation strategy covering the testing pyramid: unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing to verify feature functionality for customer use cases.
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases.
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with the CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Participate as a member of a high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft, and operational excellence.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Requirements / Your Expertise

• 9+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation.
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (examples listed: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python) and strong scripting skills.
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Playwright, XCUITest, and Espresso.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (examples listed: Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and using version control systems (Git).
• Excellent communication skills to facilitate interactions with cross-functional teams.
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems and integrating across multiple teams with significant impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.

How We'll Take Care of You / Compensation & Benefits

• The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors (training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands). This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Pay Range: $180,000 — $225,000 USD.

Location & Work Policy

• This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager.
• While Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. (The posting references an up-to-date list of excluded states.) If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you of eligible states.

Inclusion & Accessibility

• Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible and encourages all qualified individuals to apply.
• For candidates with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, contact [email protected] with your full name, the role you’re applying for, and the accommodation necessary to assist you with recruiting.