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About the Team
The Quality Technology Team focuses on the quality domain, providing a series of AI-powered products and tools throughout the entire software engineering lifecycle from development, testing, and changes to online operation and maintenance. We leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence to offer comprehensive quality improvement solutions, helping businesses quickly build advanced quality technology capabilities. Our AI-driven tools excel in areas such as automated code review, intelligent test generation, change risk prediction and control, architectural risk governance, and adaptive monitoring and emergency response. By integrating AI into quality processes, we enable businesses to enhance quality built-in practices, improve testing efficiency, and streamline automated testing workflows.

What You'll Do:
As an SWE at Bytedance, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our products. You will leverage your expertise in server-side testing and development to design, implement, and maintain testing platforms and automation tools. In this role, you will develop centralized automated testing tools, enabling comprehensive UI and API testing capabilities for complex enterprise systems. Your responsibilities will include designing advanced features like robust API testing and powerful diagnostic tools to support large-scale enterprise applications. Additionally, you'll contribute to cutting-edge projects that leverage AI and large language models to revolutionize automated testing methodologies. This position offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of quality assurance technology, combining traditional automation with emerging AI-driven solutions to enhance testing processes for enterprise-level software and large-scale consumer applications.

Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and tools using (Golang/Python preferred)
- Design and execute server-side tests to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our applications.
- Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements and design effective test strategies.
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and test data for comprehensive test coverage.
- Identify, analyze, and document defects; work with developers to resolve issues.
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of our testing platform tools.
- Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our testing processes.
- Provide mentorship and support to other team members on testing practices and tools.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven experience with tool development and server-side testing.
- Strong background in interface automation and development of testing platform tools.
- Familiarity with interface automation technology and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Golang or Python technology stack.
- Server-side testing experience: interface automation, traffic playback, test coverage, problem location, interface modeling
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs)
- LLM testing experience: case automatic generation, intelligent attribution, LLM's exploration in the field of R&D self-testing

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $19400 - $410000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

We cover 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account(HSA) with a company match. As well as Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans. In addition to Flexible Spending Account(FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.

Our time off and leave plans are: 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) (prorated upon hire and increased by tenure) and 10 paid sick days per year as well as 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.

We also provide generous benefits like mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra. A 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements. The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.