Lead Automation Engineer

Happen Bank(formerly LendingClub)is built around a simple purpose: to clear the way to help people turn intention into action and action intofinancial progress. That means offering focused products a frictionless mobile-first experience and clear terms with no gotchas. Respect and fairness is part of our DNA and that ideal shapes how we work how we treat each other and how we invest in our employees and our community. Join us in using data bold thinking and a commitment to innovation to help clear the way for millions of Americans to achieve more.

Happen Bank is looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to help advance the quality reliability and speed of our software this role youll own test automation for critical product capabilities evolve our automation frameworks and testing strategies and partner across Engineering to build quality into the development lifecycle

Youll combine hands-on automation expertise with technical leadership helping improve team practices mentor other QA Engineers and scale testing capabilities that enable us to deliver high-quality products faster

• Own and deliver test automation scripts in our services tovalidateand ship our core revenue-offering product features
• Provide oversight for features delivered by other engineers within their scrum team through code and design reviews
• Provide thought leadership in the evolution of our test automation frameworks from the ground up and collaborate with platform engineering
• Evolve the testing methodologies/strategies towards a CICD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) model to ship our features faster and with highest quality
• Use your seasoned modern-day engineering methodologies to help drive testing and coordinate with scrum teams and functional counterparts in overseeing bug tracking test prioritization testautomationand release
• Independently drive outcomes in scoped work using AI tools and actively showing peers new ways to apply themacting as a multiplier not just a user

• 7 years of test automation or quality engineering experience and a bachelors degree or higher or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Youveled medium to large scale projects and mentored other QA Engineers on the team
• Hands-on experience developing test automation scripts in both Java and JS (UIRunner Playwright or similar)
• ExpertiseinJava and JavaScriptandabilityto understand product code
• Experience with CICD methodologies and tools like Jenkins
• Experience with Web Services/API testing
• Familiarity with test engineering tools such as JUnit Selenium WebDriver (Bonus: Appium/Detox)
• Knowledgeable aboutDatabases like MySQL and Cloud (Bonus: AWS)
• Hands-on experience using tools like JIRA Git IDEs Debuggers Profilers
• Experience withdesigning test cases and test scenariostotest software
• Effectively communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner and ability to coordinate cross-team efforts
• You have hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate your work and improve output quality.
• Youre equally comfortable using them yourself and showing colleagues how you see it as part of owning your domain not just a nice-to-have
• Youre also thoughtful about limitations and where human judgment matters most

Work Location
San Francisco

The above locations are eligible offices for this locations have been determined to foster in-person collaboration with this roles team or the related business lines. We utilize a hybrid work model and our teams are in-office Tuesdays Wednesdays and -person attendance is essential for this roles success and remote placement will not be Bank offers relocation based on actual job level.

Time Zone Requirements
Local hours (PT)

While the position will primarily work local hours Happen Bank is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary.

Travel Requirements
As needed travel to Happen Bank offices and/or other locations as needed.

Compensation
The target base salary range for this position is 00. The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge experience education skills and location. Base salary is just one part of Happen Banks Total Rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance employee performance and eligible earnings).

Were creating new financial services solutions for our members based on fairness simplicity and heart and we treat our employees the same way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans for employees and their families 401(k) match health and wellness programs flexible time off policies for salaried employees up to 16 weeks paid parental leave and more.

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