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Quality Assurance Engineering Lead
Experienced QA leaders — bring your expertise to work for you where people love to shop! Boscov’s is a chain of full-service department stores serving the total family needs of our customers. For over 100 years, Boscov’s 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
- Bachelor's 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 Boscov’s, we value our employees, and that’s 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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