[Hiring] Software QA Manager @Chronograph

Overview

Chronograph was founded to bring next-generation technology to private capital markets. Through our suite of cloud-based analytics and data management solutions, we help many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated venture capital, private equity, and credit funds understand their investment performance in unprecedented detail, with over $19 trillion of AUM monitored via our solution suite.

At Chronograph, we get to go “behind the scenes” and work directly with investors who are driving some of the most impactful changes across high growth start-ups, global infrastructure and renewable energy, growth equity, and all other private capital strategies. The firm is backed by The Carlyle Group, Nasdaq Inc., and Summit Partners, and has seen continuous rapid growth since its founding in 2016.

The Opportunity

Bring your expertise to a highly collaborative, creative, and innovative team with a market-leading technology product suite. We are seeking a hands-on, highly motivated, technical, self-driven QA Manager to join our Technology team to oversee our testing efforts, creating test plans, turning those plans into automation, and tracking progress to make sure we maintain a high-quality product.

You will work closely with stakeholders to help them understand the full tech stack we use, work alongside the developers to solve a wide range of testing and automation challenges, and develop plans and procedures with a focus on our high-quality, zero-defect values. This position will report to Evan Kaplan, with engagement across the organization while you build out automation and train the team on QA best practices.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a driven, detail-oriented top performer to become directly engaged with several of the world’s most sophisticated private equity investors and produce immediate impact within a globally-focused financial technology firm.

Even if you do not meet all criteria, we would still encourage you to apply! Chronograph offers an entrepreneurial environment where you will be able to proactively identify opportunities to develop and strengthen our QA function.

As a hands-on QA Manager, you will:

• Collaborate to define and drive a vision for quality control, testing, and automation initiatives
• Identify opportunities for adopting new technologies and patterns to drive excellence
• Design and develop robust, performant, and extensible test plans and automation
• Cultivate a deep understanding of products and use cases to deliver creative and thoughtful solutions and prevent any bugs from getting to production
• Collaborate closely across the organization to build and refine processes to ensure efficient growth into the future
• Help continue to build a world-class Technology team to enable this effort, shaping both technical direction and team composition as we scale
• Help attract, interview, and onboard your future team members during this exciting time of growth

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• Six (6) years or more of QA automation experience (eg. SDET)
• High level of experience with different testing patterns and test types such as unit testing, integration testing, smoke tests, and black-box testing
• Direct experience with Playwright as well as other testing automation and ancillary tools such Asana or Jira, Cypress, Jest, CircleCI, feature flags, etc.
• A passion for supporting maintainable, readable, stable, secure, and scalable code and tests
• Strong analytical, team management, project leadership, and communication skills
• Developed and executed detailed, thoroughly thought-out testing plans
• Interest in progressive architecture patterns, including serverless, microservices, event-driven applications, and distributed systems
• Positive attitude, sense of humor, and creativity
• Have worked with our tech stack of Node.js, React, AWS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Serverless

Why Join Chronograph?

We value creativity, open communication, cutting edge technology, striving for excellence in all things – and having fun along the way. We want you to be happy here for the long-term.

We offer:

• Flexible work arrangements (including remote / in person / hybrid)
• Competitive salary
• Unlimited and flexible vacation
• Generous health benefits
• Quarterly team events in New York City for all global employees
• Fully-paid parental leave
• ...and more!

Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 USD (dependent on experience)

Chronograph is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive culture, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!