Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System, a collaborative, public-private network that enables customers to take command of their extended supplier and distribution networks from raw material origins to the sale of finished products. By applying artificial intelligence to the world’s largest body of supply chain data, Altana reveals these previously opaque global networks and powers workflows across them. Customers like Boston Scientific, L.L.Bean, Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department of Business and Trade use Altana to build secure, resilient, efficient, and sustainable global value chains.
We have built a fundamental understanding of how the world’s economy works, and the implications for global resiliency, sustainability and opportunity are enormous. Backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations, Altana powers a new era of globalization founded on a shared source of truth on the global supply chain.
This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and fostering an environment in which it can thrive. We operate in accordance with our values: we embrace reality as we work to change it; we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; and we go on offense. When you join Altana, you’ll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact.
The Opportunity at Altana
The Engineering team is responsible for building out the platforms, API’s, services, workflows, and user experiences for bringing this vision to life. As Staff SDET, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability across our product surface area. You will work closely with Software and ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Product managers to design, implement and drive the adoption of testing tools and methodologies that ensure a high bar of quality for all our software offerings.
Your Responsibilities
- Ingest product and architectural requirements, and design robust test automation frameworks and tools that ensure continuous quality of delivered engineering solutions.
- Personally develop testing tools and frameworks, and integrate them into our build and deployment pipelines.
- Work hand-in-hand with Engineering, ML and SRE leads to ensure that testing is incorporated into every step of the software and ML development lifecycle.
- Define testing patterns and best practices to accomplish the above, and drive their adoption among engineering teams.
- Work with Altana’s subject matter experts to understand their current quality validation workflows, and develop tools to automate or streamline these workflows.
- Broaden the breadth and depth of our test coverage, particularly in the areas of Performance, Security, and end-to-end testing.
- Mentor engineers of all skill levels in developing and maintaining automated tests.
About You
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of real-world professional experience in quality assurance and test automation
- Extensive experience with test automation frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, etc.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD build systems (Gitlab, Azure Dev Ops, etc.)
- Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems
- You care deeply about engineering excellence and hold a high bar on quality
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have, but not required
- Experience with Python Machine Learning toolsets (Numpy, Pandas, Dedupe)
- Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with frontend test automation frameworks like Selenium or Shipwright
Technologies we love to use at Altana
- Languages: Python, PySpark
- Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Celery, FastAPI.
- Datastores: Postgres, Databricks and Delta Lakes
This role is remote, based in the United States or United Kingdom, with the option to work from one of our hubs in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C, or London.
US Salary Range and Benefits
$134,000 - $200,000 USD
The salary range, to the extent specified for this role, is a good faith statement of the minimum and maximum levels of the annual based salary for the position. The base salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on a wide range of compensation factors, including, but not limited to, work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Altana's total compensation package. Altana also offers either a discretionary bonus or a variable compensation plan depending on the role. Additionally, Altana offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Flexible Time Off: Altana operates with a Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy that gives you agency over your own time off so you can maximize your work-life balance.
- Parental Leave: We offer industry leading Paid Parental Leave (PPL), providing 16 weeks of leave for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents and up to 26 weeks of leave for birthing parents, all paid at 100% of your base salary.
- Health Benefits: We have a full suite of medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions, designed to give you flexibility and choice for your individual health situation. Our high deductible health plan is 100% employer paid for employees and supplemented with an employer contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA). There is also a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option.
- Supplemental Benefits: Altana provides life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage, all at no cost to you, so you know that you and your loved ones are covered in case of an emergency.
- 401(k) Savings: Save for and invest in your future using our Guideline 401(k) retirement savings program.
- Commuter Benefits: Save money on your commute by setting aside pre-tax funds for public transit or parking!
- Wellness: Because we value mental and emotional health, every Altana employee has access to a free premium subscription to Calm, the #1 app for meditation, sleep, and mindfulness.
- Pet Insurance: Pets are family too! Keep them healthy with Wishbone insurance and / or our Total Pet vet service and telehealth discount plan.
- Employee Assistance Program: Free access to confidential personal support.
- Dependent Care FSA: You will have access to a Dependent Care FSA, which allows you to set aside pre-tax funds for childcare expenses
The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.
Why it’s great to work at Altana
- We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!
- We are committed to engineering excellence
- We value personal and professional development
- We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers
At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.
Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.
Top Skills
Altana London, England Office
Chancery House , London, United Kingdom, WC2A 1QS
