Lead Automation Engineer

At Williams-Sonoma we build 15 of the retail industry s leading websites - Williams Sonoma, west elm, Mark and Graham, Rejuvenation, Green Row and the Pottery Barn family in the USA. Engineers working at WSI get to work full-stack, extending our end user experience all the way through to enterprise services that support personalization, order management and other server side features.

Responsibilities

Work with your Scrum team to improve the quality of the features delivered
o By coding and maintaining effective automated tests of those features
o By working with other engineers to ensure that features are designed in a way that facilitates automated testing
o By analyzing designs and crafting test cases that can effectively reveal deficiencies in the code
Review the work of other engineers in a collegial fashion to ensure the work product is of high quality and consistent with our standards
Bring leadership to our Quality Engineering Guild
o Sharing skills and knowledge to help further our test data management and test automation initiatives
o Assist in identification, proof-of-concept work and the selection of testing tools and processes
Identify and implement approaches which reduce the amount of time needed to regress a software release candidate from days to hours
Serve as a leading member of a Scrum team and participate in all planning, stand-up and retrospective meetings
Champion functional test automation in all its forms, help bring our test automation practice and tooling to the cutting edge
o Serve as the technical owner of WSI s test automation framework
o Identify and address opportunities to run test automation as close to feature code being written as possible
o Improve efficacy and reduce run time of automation suites

Criteria

Demonstrated programming ability
10+ years experience as a Quality Engineer or Quality Analyst
An understanding of software development best-practices
Knowledge of quality engineering testing methods, tools and standards
Deep understanding of quality engineering design patterns such as Page Object Model, etc.
Ability to review, understand and contribute to proposed designs and offer thoughtful feedback
Ability to create and communicate testing strategies both verbally and in writing
Enthusiasm for constant improvement as an Engineer
Advanced experience in one or more of: Selenium + Java, WebDriver, Playwright + JavaScript, Junit, TestNG
Demonstrated success testing large heterogenous systems end to end
Knowledge of test reporting + test case management tooling such as Allure, TestRail, etc.
Experienced in building and maintaining test automation frameworks (UI, API, end to end. etc.)
Understanding of relational and NoSQL database technologies
Experience with git, GitHub, and general collaborative development.