We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Senior Quality Engineer.

The Senior Quality Engineer is responsible for delivering and coordinating all testing artifacts and activities (Test Estimates, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Automation Scripts and Test results) for the various applications that the engineer is managing within Crate&Barrel’s technology portfolio. This role will report into the Manager or Senior Manager, Technology Quality Engineering. Specifically, this position will be primarily focused on Crate&Barrel’s new and existing Ecommerce, Marketing systems, Store Operations, or Customer Facing solutions in stores.

This position is fully remote.

A day in the life as a Senior Quality Engineer...

• Responsible for all aspects of testing and Quality Engineering through the full project/sprint lifecycle (from conception through implementation) under the direction of the Manager/Sr. Manager
• Understand full end-to-end business processes and transaction flows across systems for the specific areas that you are responsible for
• Own manual & automated test script development and execution, data sourcing/data provisioning, defect analysis, and ensuring that proper test result documentation and processes are followed as per the test strategy
• Partner with the business analysts/product managers, developers and end-users to ensure that test scripts are developed or modified to cover new functionality and/or enhancements that are introduced into the production system on an ongoing basis
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing and Operational Readiness Testing, either by providing test scenarios and/or coordinating efforts during UAT and ORT and serving as testing SME
• Perform initial analysis of defects identified during the testing cycle and escalate issues as required to the functional support teams for resolution and ensure that the defects are closed within the required timeframe
• Analyze defects identified in production system to ensure that the proper controls are implemented in the regression test bed to ensure that the defect does not occur in production again
• Apply subject matter expertise to identify, develop, and implement techniques to improve product and process quality
• Leverage automation of regression test scripts in order to reduce the amount of time and resources required to execute the regression test bed
• Maintain full traceability between requirements and test cases
• Prepare and maintain KT documentation for onboarding new team members
• Work closely with offshore testing team, if applicable, responsible for executing tests
• Write SQL queries or appropriate assertion routines to validate software functions, if applicable
• Create automated API test scripts using appropriate assertions to validate/certify the APIs, if applicable
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Table…

• Collaborate with engineers/developers on ongoing proactive measures to increase product quality
• Document QE processes and procedures
• Create test artifacts and test plans
• Develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated)
• Trace test cases and results back to specific requirements/stories/quality risks
• Communicate clearly with your peers on product and solution teams to both understand their product and technology requirements while also representing your own
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• Experience building framework and writing automated scripts using automation tools (Selenium, QTP, NightwatchJS, Codeception, Cypress, mabl etc.) is required. Willingness to learn new tools and frameworks is required
• Experience in Java or JavaScript is required
• Experience testing one or more databases like SQL Server, NoSQL, Big Query is required
• API testing tools & automation (Rest-Assured, SoapUI, Postman, SOAtest or CA LISA etc.) experience is required
• Experience with BDD/TDD (Cucumber/Gherkin) is preferred
  
  

Minimum Starting Rate: $92,000.00 Hourly

Up to: $115,000.00 Hourly

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.

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