Do you love breaking things and finding out how they work? Do you consistently find ways to automate repeatable tasks? Do you desire a high impact role in ensuring a quality customer experience? If so, we would like to offer you an opportunity of designing and building test automation solutions for our wide range of products and having a visible impact on the experiences of our customers.

Our Product and Technology

Our automated test suite is currently powered by Python, PyTest, requests, and Selenium running on BrowserStack. Our backend applications are written in Python 2.7 and 3.6, and we have plans to upgrade to 3.6 globally. The RESTful APIs we develop enable several client-facing platforms, ranging from our website products built with React & Redux to our native mobile applications.

Our infrastructure-as-code platform is hosted by Amazon Web Services, developed and orchestrated using Ansible and Terraform. We automate as much as we can, utilizing Jenkins for deployments and Docker to build our applications.

About the Position

ChowNow’s Engineering Team has built a reliable, stable, and modern platform enabling restaurant owners to accept pickup and delivery orders online. Our “quality product first” approach to engineering drives the team to succeed and has contributed to the success and growth of the company. We’ve reached the time when we need to evolve our test automation to the next level, addressing scalability challenges, developing tests for new and exciting products, and supporting the growing needs of other teams. We understand very well that prioritizing customer experience requires serious investment into test automation and that’s why we need you. You’re a software engineer specialized in test automation and excited about the opportunity to build test automation tools and processes for software including websites, mobile apps, and APIs.

About Us:

ChowNow is the ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants grow and compete in a sustainable way. At ChowNow, we’re driven by one purpose: to help local restaurants thrive. By helping diners discover their delicious creations and helping restaurants connect with customers new and old.

ChowNow powers branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants across the US — via restaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages, through ChowNow-created apps, and via ChowNow’s website— while also providing our restaurant partners key customer insights and marketing support.

This position is located in the Playa Vista neighborhood and tech hub of Los Angeles — just a few minutes from both the beach and the freeways. We believe in equal opportunity for all, and you should, too. We’ve been named a Best Place to Work, have been certified as a Great Place to Work, and have a whole bunch of happy employees on Glassdoor!

Within 1 Month, You'll...

• Progress through our Ramp Camp (ChowNow’s New Hire Onboarding Experience).
• Complete Engineering Training, learning about our software development process, tools, technology stack, and architecture.
• Join a Product Squad, meet squad members and take ownership of testing new features development.

Within 3 Months, You'll...

• Learn our business model and how test automation can support our key platforms, products, and features.
• Master development patterns and collaborative processes. We work together to make work efficient.
• Collaborate with the Director of Engineering, Product Manager, and Test Automation Team to discover the breadth of automated testing desired to ensure quality.
• Work as part of an interdisciplinary squad uniquely focused on discrete projects, core products and/or specialized services.
• Write clear documentation for tests and test framework improvements.
• Develop new tests and refactor existing ones, and learn how test automation supports our software development process. We ship iteratively with an agile mindset.
• Develop test suites for our API and other products. We aim to test everything feasible.

Within 6 Months, You'll...

• Make a tangible impact on our process workflow architecture by reducing cycle times as well as ensuring a quality product.
• Understand major feature areas of our applications and be comfortable navigating the product.
• Contribute to our test automation framework and architecture.
• Design and then implement an entire test suite for a large piece of a product or an entire product.

Within 12 Months, You'll...

• Build within reliable estimates. We know this takes time, and we strive to be accurate with each other.
• Feel comfortable as a knowledge leader, contributing teaching and continuing to learn.
• Expand test automation coverage outside of API testing, according to the test automation needs and team priorities.
• Be an essential part of growing our team by fully participating in the hiring interview process. 

You Should Apply If:

• You possess an innate curiosity about software, discovering interesting edge cases and building tests around them.
• You have hands-on experience automating tests for APIs and you’re interested in web and mobile apps automation.
• You feel confident operating in Linux environments and developing tests in Python.
• You are well organized, thrilled to experience building test automation tools from the ground up.
• You are excited about new technologies, and at the same pragmatic when it comes to adoption of the latest innovations.
• You constantly work to get better at your craft.
• You find excitement in learning new business models and transferring such knowledge into beautiful test design.
• You like collaborating with multiple stakeholders within and outside Engineering Team towards a common goal.
• You make decisions based on data and evidence.
• You enjoy iterative, agile development process with frequent releases.
• You take great pleasure in writing quality, highly maintainable code.
• You thrive in environments supporting your growth, and where you can support others.

About Our Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Ongoing training and growth opportunities
• A "best place to work" winner multiple times where we focus on creating a great employee experience
• Rock solid medical, dental, and vision plans
• 3 weeks paid vacation; paid holidays; we expect you to work hard, but still enjoy your personal life
• 6 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents (within the first year of birth or adoption), 6 Weeks of Paid Pregnancy Leave
• Employer-contributing student loan assistance program
• Commuter benefits (including Uber Pool)
• Employee Stock Incentive Plan
• Quarterly Industry Speakers Series
• Quarterly Tech Events (Women, LGBTQ, Diversity, Inclusion)
• Consistent & fair leadership: we’ll share info, set clear goals, show you respect, and treat everyone fairly
• Enough freedom to spread your wings while still holding you accountable
• Fully stocked kitchen and cold brew on tap

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse work environment. ChowNow is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.