Software Development Engineer in Test, Global e-commerce - USDS

$161,500 - $239,400/Yr

Tiktok - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (USDS) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S., created to enhance focus and governance on our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to ensure the safety of U.S. users. Our commitment is to provide oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, allowing millions of Americans to continue using TikTok for learning, earning, creative expression, and entertainment. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions, and more. As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will be part of our quality assurance engineering team, which is responsible for maintaining the stability, security, and intuitiveness of the TikTok e-commerce ecosystem. We are looking for passionate and talented individuals to join us in driving the future of e-commerce at TikTok. In this role, you will be responsible for the quality assurance of various aspects of e-commerce, including consumer, seller, creator sides, and the e-commerce SaaS backend. You will design comprehensive test plans based on requirements and technical implementations, ensuring that overall test quality and progress are on track across Android, iOS, Frontend, and Server testing. You will also be responsible for implementing special testing technologies such as server-side automation testing, server-side stress testing, asset loss prevention, and change management control. Additionally, you will build or maintain a quality testing system tailored to the business characteristics, introducing appropriate technologies to enhance e-commerce business quality. Your role will involve close collaboration with production and research teams to foster a quality culture, processes, and tools, while continuously tracking and analyzing quality issues to improve the system's overall quality.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the quality assurance of e-commerce consumer side, seller side, creator side and e-commerce SaaS backend.
• Design reasonable test plans according to the requirements and technical implementation.
• Ensure overall test quality and progress on track covering Android, iOS, Frontend and Server testing.
• Responsible for special testing technologies such as server-side automation testing, server-side stress testing, asset loss prevention and control, and change management control.
• Build or maintain a working quality testing system by combining business characteristics to introduce appropriate technologies to improve e-commerce business quality.
• Participate in the product development process by working closely with the production and research team to build a quality culture, processes and tools.
• Continuously track and analyze online and offline quality problems while constantly improving the quality of the system.

Requirements

• 3+ years of work experience in testing and development in the high tech sector.
• Familiar with at least one programming language (Python/Java/Go).
• Solid knowledge of computer field fundamentals for networking, database and algorithms.
• Familiar with server-side automation testing/UI-automation testing, server-side stress testing.
• Experienced in quality assurance methodology and have certain understanding of CI/CD.
• Passionate, self-motivated and can demonstrate excellent teamwork skills.
• Self-driven at discovering, analyzing and summarizing problems to promote continuous improvement of projects.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or related major is preferred.
• Experience in change management, asset loss prevention, and client performance testing is preferred.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.