Quality Assurance Engineer

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization

Within Lyft, the Lyft Urban Solutions (LUS) team delivers station-based micromobility solutions that riders love in 55+ cities across 16 countries globally. People are central to all that we do, whether it is members of the LUS team, our city and operational partners, or the communities we serve. To create the world’s best transportation, we start with our own team by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

The Lyft Urban Solutions team in Montreal is growing, and we are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to be the driving force behind a comprehensive test strategy across our entire stack, from mobile applications, public web sites, backend services, smart microbility vehicles and smart docking stations. This is a hands-on position. You will schedule and participate in internal testing events, collaborate closely with product and engineering teams as they develop new features, and ensure every release we provide our customers is free of major defects.

Most technical interviews and interactions with the other offices in the company will be in English; however, the working environment in Montreal is bilingual.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, create, and execute tests for validating Lyft’s systems and products
• Document and execute integration tests for a variety of system components and interactions
• Work with peers to improve the testability of our products
• Plan our quality assurance activities with test automation engineers in order to ensure proper test coverage and optimal testing efficiency of our systems
• Carry out fault management processes, ensuring timely support when urgent interventions are required
• Identify and communicate potential risks and impacts
• Design and implement test strategies to improve efficiency in manual testing
• Help establish automation roadmap and architecture based on technology and our needs
• Improve our existing test automation frameworks and infrastructure and support engineers in writing automated tests
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code in order to test complex mobile applications and APIs that reference database back-end systems 

Experience:

• Experience in developing and documenting test plans, test cases and reporting bugs for complex features
• Experience working on a variety of products: ( web, mobile, backend services, databases, IoTs, physical hardware)
• Experience of prioritizing and coordinating work across a large domain space
• Solid knowledge of best practices in Quality Assurance and also in test practices
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Good knowledge of hardware testing (asset)
• Experience doing test automation (asset)
• Experience in leveraging metrics to evaluate quality (asset)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans, including family coverage
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health support programs
• Healthcare Spending Account (HSA)
• Fertility and family-building support
• Complimentary lunch, snacks, beverages, coffee, and tea in our offices
• Additional holidays (12 in 2025, 4 more than the legal requirement)
• Flexible paid time off policy (no hard limits)
• Flexible sick time polity (no hard limits)
• Occasional company-wide recharge days (5 in 2025)
• Up to 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave, subject to certain conditions, for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
• And other special benefits related to our services

Lyft proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Lyft believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. Lyft also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.  Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process.  Please contact your recruiter now if you wish to make such a request.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid