Quality Assurance Engineer II

Who we are

At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.

What we do

The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!

Role overview

We are looking to hire a QA Automation Engineer II to join our Enterprise Applications team. In this role, you will play a critical part in designing, building, maintaining, and improving automated test coverage across the Enterprise Applications product portfolio, working across multiple teams and platforms in line with business and technical requirements.

You will partner closely with Engineering, QA,and product stakeholders to ensure our enterprise systems and integrations are stable, reliable, and release-ready. This role combines a strong hands-on focus on test automation, AI leverage and analysis of Enterprise applications across a complex enterprise stack, with particular emphasis on Salesforce and its integrations with financial platforms.

What you'll do

The first part of the role is experience with software quality, including the ability to create end-to-end scenarios, analyze results, and report defects.

Experience with SaaS cloud-based applications such as Salesforce or similar CRM platforms is a plus.

Define and execute test strategies/test scenarios/test cases daily to assure quality across CarGurus enterprise applications, including but not limited to Salesforce, Zuora, Marketo, and NetSuite.

Perform a wide range of testing such as E2E, functional, exploratory, regression, smoke, black-box, and data to ensure that implemented features are free of bugs, that system integration is reliable, and that business processes are not broken.

Implement, enhance, and optimize automation frameworks for specific applications and features, contributing to the evolution of automation framework design and recommending improvements for scalability, maintainability, and effectiveness.

Design automation solutions that align with CI/CD practices, enabling efficient integration of automated testing into modern delivery pipelines.

Collaborate with other QA engineers to help plan and test new and existing features, design, implement, improve and optimize automation framework.

Work hand-in-hand and advise software developers engaged in the design, coding, reviewing, and testing of enterprise software.

Troubleshoot test failures and quality issues across services, APIs, and application modules, using a systematic debugging approach and considering performance impacts where relevant

Self-driven, self-motivated, works independently and with larger groups

What you'll bring

Bachelor’s degree in engineering degree or equivalent

3-5 years of QA experience working with cloud-based CRM/ERP technologies or enterprise applications stack, preferably Salesforce.

Creative, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches and leverage a variety of tools, including AI-enabled solutions, to improve efficiency, solve problems, and optimize processes

You bring a deep understanding of testing methodologies, including functional, integration, regression, load, and performance testing.

Experience with REST APIs and Postman testing is a plus

Solid user of Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence…)

Apex, SOQL, or any Salesforce-related developer technologies experience is a plus.

Good understanding of SDLC, Agile

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Creative with a desire to learn and take ownership

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying process improvements and driving continuous innovation

Eagerness to learn and adapt to new tools, technologies, and automation solutions as needed, with a flexible approach to supporting evolving team and business needs

Ability to build productive cross-functional relationships and collaborate effectively with engineering, QA, and business stakeholders.

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