Early Career Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to conne...

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, frameworks. We naviga...

Help Airbnb leverage AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering

Build, maintain, and effectively utilize automated tests, collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participate in the continuous improvement of testing processes
Leverage AI and tooling to implement the test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases
Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency
Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development
Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release
Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles

2+ years of industry experience in software engineering and testing 
Demonstrable knowledge in at least one language used for web development (e.g., TypeScript, JavaScript) and comfort working in a backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go)
Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
Strong hands-on experience with web automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
Familiarity with quality signals such as test coverage, flaky test rate, and suite execution time, and how they guide where to invest effort
Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
Comfort working through ambiguous problems, and collaborating across teams to deliver
Curiosity about applying AI/LLMs to testing and developer productivity
Comfortable collaborating in English
Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent