Tulip, the leader in frontline operations, is helping companies around the world equip their workforce with connected apps, leading to higher quality work, improved efficiency, and end-to-end traceability across operations. Companies of all sizes and across industries have implemented composable solutions with Tulip’s cloud-native, no-code platform to solve some of the most pressing challenges in operations: error-proofing processes and boosting productivity, capturing and analyzing real-time data, and continuous improvement.

A spinoff out of MIT, Tulip is headquartered in Somerville, MA, with offices in Germany and Hungary. Focused on composable, human-centric solutions for industrial environments, Tulip is disrupting the MES category and has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Global Innovator. Tulip has also been named one of Energage’s Top Workplaces USA and one of Built In Boston’s “Best Places to Work” and “Best Midsize Places to Work” for 2023.

About You:

You possess high levels of technical talent, test automation skills, people management skills and a keen desire to deeply understand our product and its quality needs. You have honed your technical skills through years of testing web-based products, then figured out how to make the jump over to building teams. You’re passionate about mentoring test engineers and helping them grow. You are a collaborative and motivated self-starter, ready to roll up your sleeves and dive right in and lead from the front.

• You have deep experience with QA and software engineering best practices
• You like to solve problems and drive process improvement with a strong quality mindset
• You are meticulously detailed and organized
• You are eager to figure out why things are broken and turn your learnings into improved processes
• You enjoy collaborating with different engineering teams to stay on top of new features and figure out how best to test them

What skills do I need?

• 3+ years testing or developing SaaS or web products
• Ideally 2+ years leading a software test team
• We don't require experience with any specific technologies, but we currently use React, Redux, NodeJS, Golang, Elixir, Electron, MongoDB, Postgres
• Experience building automated tests through skillful adaptation of open-source technologies, balanced with targeted manual QA efforts
• Experience structuring test frameworks with an eye towards reusability; ability to discuss the strengths and drawbacks of common testing frameworks (karma, protractor, behave, selenium, rspec) based on personal, in-depth experience
• Understanding of when a situation calls for a quick script to glue it all together and comfort creating it in bash, nodejs, python or similar
• Ability to develop stable automation and integrate it into CI/CD pipelines
• Some experience with CI/CD configuration and tools preferred

Key Responsibilities:

• Set and build the technical strategy for test automation at Tulip
• Lead and mentor a team of test automation engineers
• Build a diverse team while encouraging a collaborative and encouraging environment
• Manage a team through agile processes and procedures
• Provide technical design insight as well as solution architecture planning
• Work with other engineering leadership to align on priorities

Key Collaborators:

• Engineering
• Product team
• Customer-facing teams

Working At Tulip

We know even great candidates experience imposter syndrome. Even if you don’t match every requirement, applying gives you the opportunity to be considered.

We’re building a strong, diverse team that values hard work, families, and personal well-being. Benefits of working with us include:

• Direct impact on product and culture
• Company equity
• Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation policy
• Virtual company events and happy hours
• In-office catered lunches and stocked kitchens

For Hungarian openings: our office is located in the Corvin Quarter, next to Corvin Mall.

We are an equal opportunity employer. At Tulip, we celebrate all. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Help us build an inclusive community that will transform frontline operations.