Principal Software Quality Engineer

Principal Software Quality Engineer

The Principal Software Quality Engineer is part of a hybrid development team. You will be a member of our e-Commerce software team delivering high quality, reliable software in a collaborative environment. This is a very senior role focused on leading a QA team, creating QA processes and being hands-on testing the eCommerce application. This role involves testing both the front-end and back-end of the application, reviewing requirements, and working with the business to ensure that requirements are complete and ready to be added to a sprint. This is a hybrid role (2 days per week in the office) based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work on the software development team on our e-Commerce application
• Articulate clear and concise test strategies, including: Test Plans, User stories, Use cases, Regression tests, Smoke tests
• Build automated tests and test suites.
• Review feature requirements and work with product team to clarify and refine details of stories.
• Evaluate new feature requests for clarity and risk.
• Have strong opinions on software quality.
• Partner with product owners and developers to shape and define requirements and recommend best practices that shape the quality of our software.
• Write documentation that is easy to understand by developers and non-developers alike.
• Express usability, performance, and scalability concerns.
• Evaluate and recommend tools for testing.
• Make UI recommendations.

Technologies We Use:

• Python, React, Vercel, Microsoft SQL Server, Docker, git, Playwright

Qualifications:

• Technical degree and/or comparable related experience
• Experience creating automated tests
• Experience with test automation tools like Playwright and Selenium
• Familiarity with JIRA & Confluence
• Experience with querying databases with SQL to analyze data

Preferred Qualifications (nice to have):

• 7+ years' experience as a Software Quality Engineer
• Azure, AWS, or GCP experience
• Experience with Testrail
• Experience with CI/CD, deploying code to test systems is a plus
• Experience with Heroku

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401K benefits with company match
• Short- & Long-Term Disability
• EAP
• Emergency Travel & Identity Theft Protection
• Life Insurance
• AD&D
• Collaborative and Motivated Team