Automattic

Excellence Wrangler

Posted 3 days ago

Come help us improve product quality across . We’re looking for an Excellence Wrangler to join the QualityOps team. You’ll play a key role in our mission through automated UI testing, test strategy, bug triage, and quality metrics. Your work will directly impact our business results by making sure we’re always focused on the most important issues for our users.

What you’ll do:

Test, review, and polish everything. Ensure the highest quality for our products.
Create and maintain automated tests. Use tools like Playwright to build robust UI tests for high-traffic web applications.
Advise and collaborate. Work with product development teams to improve their testing strategies and promote a proactive quality mindset.
Drive continuous improvement. Manage and improve test runners and CI tools related to automated tests.
Triage and fix issues. Get hands-on with bug fixes, prioritizing the highest-impact issues.

What we’re looking for:

A pragmatic problem-solver who communicates clearly.
Experience with UI functional testing tools, particularly Playwright.
Comfortable with CLI/shell scripting, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
Familiar with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or TeamCity.
Excited about the potential of AI-powered tools to improve testing and triage.
Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.

Bonus points for:

Experience with component testing frameworks like Storybook or Chromatic.
Familiarity with a variety of testing types: APIs, security, performance, accessibility, fuzzing/chaos, or mobile apps.
Experience with WordPress, PHP, and MySQL.
Applied AI/ML for bug triage or test automation.

Salary range: $85,000-$150,000 USD. Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.

We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated.

We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components. This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our . And check out these links to learn more about and .

About Automattic

Now in , we’re the people behind , , , , , , , , , and more. We believe in making the web a better place.

We’re a distributed company with more than 1400 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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