Test Engineer

Test Engineer at Major League Baseball

The Test Engineer is responsible for leading the test effort for one of the Product Development teams within our Ballpark & Ticketing Experience group. This role will serve as a core member of an Agile team, collaborating with world-class Application Developers, Product Managers, Designers, and Project Managers to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and efficient manner.

Responsibilities

• Proactively evangelizing quality in all phases of the software development process
• Authoring and communicating clear test plans, results, and coverage to your team and organization
• Testing product functionality from a user interaction perspective on multiple client platforms (i.e. iOS, Android, web), ensuring a delightful fan experience
• Testing service layer using tools like Postman, Paw, and REST-assured
• Utilizing debugging proxies, application performance monitoring, and machine-generated data to identify the root cause of issues
• Contributing to the project’s test automation suites and identifying high-value opportunities to apply automation and testing tools
• Assuming co-ownership of automation and testing tools backlog
• Serving as a subject matter expert and coach for testing approaches
• Demonstrating product/platform expertise to uncover design and implementation risks early in the planning and design phases

Qualifications & Skills

• 4+ years of software testing experience and the ability to demonstrate testing and technical prowess
• Self-motivated, communicative, curious, proactive nature
• Understanding of industry-standard test processes, load testing, and test automation pyramids
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Eagerness to learn new things and overcome challenges
• Experience with Playwright and JavaScript

Nice to have, but not required

• Experience introspecting application performance using tools such as JMX and APM (e.g. DataDog) alongside comprehending code paths based on application logging, metrics, and other signals
• Experience with SRE and SRE concepts such as error budgets, SLI/SLO, etc
• Experience in an agile environment using processes such as Scrum, Kanban, etc
• Experience with source code management (git, etc)
• Experience with continuous integration (Jenkins, etc)
• Experience with UI test frameworks (XCUITest, Espresso, Selenium, etc)
• Experience with test tracking tools (TestRail, etc)
• Understanding of persistence layer and ability to plan and load test data

Why MLB?

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.

Key skills/competency

• Software Testing
• Test Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• Playwright
• JavaScript
• API Testing (Postman, Paw)
• Debugging & APM
• Performance Testing
• Problem-Solving
• Risk Assessment