Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Experienced QA leaders bring your expertise to work for you where people love to shop! Boscovs is a chain of full-service department stores serving the total family needs of our customers. For over 100 years Boscovs has been known for its great values and famous brands and for offering a broad selection of quality merchandise in its stores and online. We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineering Lead to join our Information Technology team.

As part of a fast-paced dynamic Information Technology team you will establish QA standards lead a small offshore QA team and advance automated testing across eCommerce integrations internal applications and APIs with expansion expected over time. This lead-level role is roughly 70% leadership standards planning and coaching and 30% hands-on testing and automation. A key focus is modernizing our existing Playwright/Python framework toward Playwright/TypeScript using AI-enabled tools to support conversion test design and suite maintenance. If you are looking for a great opportunity to pursue a rewarding career with a company known for quality and big savings apply today!

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a small offshore QA engineering team including day-to-day guidance work prioritization and quality oversight.
• Establish QA best practices testing standards documentation expectations and quality engineering processes across assigned delivery areas.
• Define consistent approaches for test planning regression testing smoke testing release validation defect management and quality metrics.
• Partner with software engineering product owners project managers business stakeholders and other IT teams to align testing with delivery timelines and business priorities.
• Lead modernization of the existing Playwright/Python automation framework toward a scalable Playwright/TypeScript framework.
• Build expand and maintain automated test suites for UI API integration regression and critical business process testing.
• Use AI-enabled tools where appropriate to support automation conversion test generation test data creation defect analysis and productivity improvements.
• Support hands-on testing and automation when needed due to skill gaps capacity constraints project complexity or conflicting priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA process maturity automation coverage release confidence and overall software quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 8 years performing building and establishing QA software testing and software quality engineering experience including at least 2 years leading QA engineers offshore teams or test automation initiatives.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and modern quality engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright required; TypeScript experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Python-based Playwright automation preferred especially in environments transitioning to TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of API testing integration testing regression testing functional testing smoke testing and release validation.
• Experience establishing QA standards test strategies defect processes quality metrics and release readiness practices.
• Proven ability to lead coach and prioritize work for offshore QA engineers in a fast-paced delivery environment.
• CI/CD concepts and experience integrating automated tests into build deployment or release pipelines.
• SQL or data validation experience to support testing of integrations APIs reporting and internal business applications.
• Strong analytical communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across U.S.-based and offshore teams.
• Experience testing eCommerce platforms APIs integrations internal business applications or related technologies preferred.
• Retail industry experience preferred.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Playwright and TypeScript for automated testing of web applications APIs integrations and critical business workflows.
• Bitbucket or similar source control platforms including branching pull requests and code reviews.
• Test management tools such as TestRail or similar platforms for test cases test plans regression suites execution results and traceability.
• API testing tools and practices including REST API validation Postman or similar tools Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and integration testing strategies.
• Jira and Confluence for defect tracking Agile delivery and documentation.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled development or QA tools that support test generation automation conversion code review defect analysis or productivity improvement.

Benefits

At Boscovs we value our employees and thats why we provide a competitive compensation and benefits package. As a Full-Time member of our team you will be eligible to receive:

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical/dental/vision
• Short term disability/ Long term disability- voluntary
• Life Insurance (company paid)
• 401(k) w/ company match
• Weekly Pay
• Paid vacation
• Liberal employee discount

Work where people love to shop!

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