What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Engineer II position at Harvest Group?
Harvest Group is an integrated commerce agency that helps high-growth consumer brands win in today's complex retail landscape. Since 2006, we've partnered with some of the world's most recognized brands to navigate the intersection of in-store and digital commerce, retail media, and social platforms across leading retailers including Walmart, Sam's Club, Target, Amazon, Costco, and Kroger.
What sets Harvest Group apart is our connected approach. By aligning strategy, execution, and insights across every stage of the retail journey—and powering that work through our proprietary technology platform—we help brands create sustainable growth in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.
But our success starts with our people.
At Harvest Group, our culture and values shape how we work, serve our clients, and support one another. We believe in building meaningful relationships, pursuing excellence with humility, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do their best work while continuing to grow professionally and personally.
Our commitment to our people has earned recognition as one of the nation's best workplaces, including:
- Inc. Best Places to Work (2025, 2026)
- Great Place to Work Certified (2024)
- Fortune Best Workplaces for Women (2024)
- Fortune Best Medium Workplaces (2024)
- Fortune Best Consulting & Professional Services Workplaces (2024)
- Business Intelligence Group Best Places to Work (2023)
Our Values
- Integrity – Doing what is right in all things
- Relationship – Pursuing depth, trust, and collaboration
- Service – Laboring for others with humility and care
- Excellence – Delivering extraordinary performance and results with humility
- Journey – Embracing our past and planning for our future with faith
Description
The Quality Engineer II is responsible for ensuring the reliability, functionality, and overall quality of our software applications. This role will design and execute manual and automated tests, identify defects early, and partner closely with developers and product owners to uphold high-quality standards across the software development lifecycle. This role works independently on day-to-day testing efforts while partnering with the Team Lead on overall QA direction and standards.
Our approach to servicing our employees is grounded in our values. To deliver excellence for our Harvest Group employees, we do require that this role is based in Rogers, AR. If you are applying but do not currently reside in this market, please note that relocation will not be covered by Harvest Group.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases to validate new and existing software applications against business and technical requirements.
- Collaborate with developers and product owners to understand feature requirements and translate them into effective test plans and acceptance criteria.
- Identify, document, and track defects clearly, working with the development team to verify fixes and prevent regressions.
- Build and maintain automated test scripts to improve test coverage and reduce manual testing effort over time.
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development process.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing across web and application interfaces.
- Support release readiness by validating builds, tracking test results, and communicating quality risks to the team.
- Help evolve QA processes, standards, and tooling in partnership with the Team Lead, bringing ideas for improving testing practices across the team.
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in software quality assurance or testing, with the ability to work independently on day-to-day testing tasks.
- Proven experience writing and executing manual test cases, reporting defects clearly, and driving issues through to resolution.
- Solid understanding of software testing concepts, including functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) sufficient to test and troubleshoot web applications.
- Ability to read and understand application code well enough to write meaningful test scenarios.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and clear written communication.
- Experience working within Agile methodologies and cross-functional development teams, including partnering directly with developers and product owners on quality decisions.
- Exposure to test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, Cypress).
Preferred
- Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how automated testing fits into the deployment process.
- Exposure to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
- Familiarity with bug tracking and test management tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps).
- Basic understanding of cloud-based environments, preferably Microsoft Azure.
Our heart at Harvest is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusivity, authenticity, mutual respect, professionalism, and growth. Harvest Group is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, age, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
We encourage all interested candidates to apply.