Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Lyft
Accessibility
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3 days a week in office
Ride sharing company
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Ride sharing company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in developing and documenting test plans, test cases and reporting defects
- Proficiency in testing applications for accessibility on both mobile and web platforms, including identifying and documenting accessibility issues, performing quality audits, and providing recommendations for improvement
- Deep knowledge of accessibility guidelines and standards specific to mobile and web apps, such as WCAG Accessibility Guidelines
- Familiarity with mobile accessibility testing tools, such as VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android)
- Understanding of common assistive technologies used on mobile devices, such as screen readers, magnifiers, and alternative input methods
- Experience and willingness to work with other teams such as engineering, product, release, design, and legal teams
- Experience of prioritizing and coordinating work across a large number of product teams is a plus
- Excellent communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate accessibility issues and recommendations to project teams, including developers, designers, and product managers
- Nice to have: certification in the Accessibility field such as CPACC, CPWA, or WAS
- Nice to have: experience with mobile or web automation testing. Proficiency in Swift+XCUITest or Kotlin+Jetpack Compose/Espresso for apps and tests on mobile platforms, as well as Python/Go for API tests
What the job involves
- We are growing our team with people who will help ensure the high quality of our software engineering practices and the resulting experiences of the millions of riders and drivers who use our apps to get where they’re going and earn money
- You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, designers, and more in order to ensure that our applications meet industry standards and implement best practices for accessibility, helping to catch any issues before production
- You will also help set the quality and accessibility strategies across multiple teams, supporting a culture of excellence that makes our services usable by all our customers
- Develop a cohesive quality and accessibility strategy for multiple teams at Lyft, integrating contributions from design, product, and engineering teams
- Define and foster best practices for A11y test strategy, execution, and improving overall product delivery
- Ensure specific products meet relevant accessibility standards and maintain compliance as features are added and removed. Review and prepare A11y reports like VPATs
- Recommend best practices and train engineers on how to ensure the accessibility of their products
- Collaborate with product teams to understand the testing needs, identify test scenarios, perform exploratory testing, and design test strategies
- Define and execute test plans for specific features across multiple platforms (web, mobile, and backend), analyzing design docs and requirements to define positive, negative and corner cases
- Conduct test plan and test case reviews for other QAEs
- Own, execute, update, and keep in a good state the mobile A11y regression test suite
- Identify and propose ideas to improve testing process
- Report execution results, prioritize and track defects, and provide sign-off for launches
- Share your knowledge by mentoring others, giving brown bags and tech talks, and promoting quality best practices
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Lyft has aimed for consistent growth, making sure to pitch itself as a more reliable and friendly ride-sharing option than its main competitor, Uber. Uber has a greater market share and operates globally, but Lyft hopes to compete by its focus on ride-sharing over Uber's more diversified business approach and as a more rider-friendly and greener alternative to Uber.
Operating only in the USA and Canada, Lyft is in a position of being less affected by global events than Uber but also more vulnerable to local conditions. As an example, while it doesn't face the regulatory hurdles around employment rights that Uber does, it is unable to balance out the cost of the unusually expensive US auto insurance across its operations.
In 2022, Lyft acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, a bike-share equipment and technology supplier, allowing Lyft to compete in new verticals and reaffirming its commitment to green transportation. It has also trialed and launched Lyft Assisted, where drivers help passengers from their door into the car to get to medical appointments. These developments chime well with Lyft's unique selling point as a friendlier and more environmentally aware ride-sharing app.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jun 2018
$600m
LATE VC
Mar 2018
$200m
LATE VC
Total funding: $4.9bn
Company benefits
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
- Family building benefits
- Lyft Pink - Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
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Founders
John Zimmer
(Co-Founder)Originally an Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer then founded Zimride which was a private ridesharing company that pivoted into Lyft.
Logan Green
(Co-Founder)Founded Zimride, a private ridesharing company which later pivoted into Lyft.
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