Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Job Description

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!

Equal Opportunity Employer