About Foursquare:

Since our inception in 2009, Foursquare has been a leading force in changing how location information enriches our real-world and digital lives. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. Our B2B offerings include Places (for developers), Pinpoint and Attribution (for marketers), and Place Insights (for analysts, based on the world's largest foot traffic panel). With more than 200 people across our offices in New York, San Francisco, and in sales offices around the globe, we’re dedicated to our trailblazing mission—enriching consumer experiences and informing business decisions with location intelligence.

About our Engineering Team:

As a member of Foursquare’s engineering team, we want you to bring experience building real products from the ground up. We're passionate about tackling tough challenges in the location space and look for others who like to dive deep into code and help solve hard problems. You should be comfortable running with your own ideas and eager to learn new skills on a bleeding edge platform. We use a variety of tools, technologies, and languages to build software (Scala, Thrift, MongoDB, Memcached, JS/jQuery, Kafka, Pants, Hadoop, MR, Spark) but experience with equivalent ones will do just fine.

Join us and help bring our feature ideas (and your own!) off the whiteboard and into reality. Here are some high-level areas you could help our NY or SF office:

- Improve the accuracy and efficiency of one of the premier Place search APIs in existence. Our API powers Foursquare City Guide and Swarm as well as apps from Microsoft, Uber, Samsung, Twitter and more

- Leverage machine learning techniques to build systems which process and derive insights from billions of location data points every day

- Launch features that make cities easier to explore and continue to push the Foursquare City Guide and Swarm apps forward

- Build resilient services and tooling which drive all of our offline processing of petabytes of data

About the Role:

The Foursquare team is looking for an experienced QA Engineer who can help verify and validate the quality of our many core technology products. The ideal person for the role is very comfortable with the full stack of quality assurance tools, ranging from establishing QA best practices to coordinating automated integration testing and manual release testing.

You will work closely with partners throughout the company to plan, develop and execute test coverage across mobile platforms. You will be primarily focused on pairing with developers in their testing and automation efforts. You will build tools/frameworks and enforce best practices. You will help developers ship at high velocity without compromising on quality. You will review technical design documents to provide meaningful feedback. Some challenges you may face include: 3rd party integrations, simulating location data, testing an SDK embedded in other apps, generating large analytics datasets, simulating outages and then analyzing and recording those results. You will assist in leading and driving our testing initiatives, and utilize various testing techniques to verify platform features and functionality.

This role is open for hire in our New York City HQ.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of proven industry experience in a software testing / QA role
• Familiarity with test automation strategies and technologies
• Hands-on development experience with Scala or Java
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools for mobile (iOS, Android) applications
• Investigate, troubleshoot and verify software defects and other technical issues
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Comfortable in a small, fast-paced startup environment and being the subject matter expert
• Prior experience working closely with engineering, product and product operations teams

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.