Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

The role

You will own the automated test suite for web and desktop clients. You will build coverage for complex areas like concurrent editing, offline recovery, and agent actions.

What you will do

• Own the automated test suite for web and desktop clients
• Build coverage for concurrent editing, offline and recovery, and agent actions
• Decide what gets tested and what does not
• Keep the suite fast and trustworthy
• Test Cloud, self-hosted, and older versions across browsers and hardware
• Work daily with engineers and product across San Francisco and Hyderabad
• Review test coverage arriving with community pull requests
• Triage failures including real defects, script problems, and environment problems

Required qualifications

• Built an automation framework
• Fluent in Playwright or Cypress
• Fluent in TypeScript or JavaScript
• Experience making a flaky suite trustworthy
• Test APIs including REST endpoints and authentication
• Run suites in CI using GitHub Actions or comparable

Nice to have

• Contributed to Plane
• Run Plane self-hosted
• Maintained another open project people rely on
• Tested real-time collaborative or offline-first applications
• Tested systems where AI agents act on real data
• Worked with cross-browser, visual regression, or Electron desktop testing

About the company

Plane is a work management platform that brings projects, knowledge, and requests into one open, adaptable platform. It is used by teams around the world and serves regulated industries like aerospace, defense, and financial services.