QA Lead (Automation)

Furntiure.com – Atlanta, Ga

WHO WE ARE

Furniture.com is building the most intelligent furniture shopping platform on the planet. We don’t sell furniture. We help people find it better. We are a technology company in the service of furniture. A creative industry, with a consumer base that really cares about the decisions they make. 

With over 2 million products from 60+ trusted brands, our AI-powered search platform connects shoppers with the right pieces—based on style, space, budget, and intent—without the 15-tab madness of traditional furniture search, discovery and shopping.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

Furniture.com is a high growth startup backed by one of America’s top furniture retailers. We are looking for a QA leader who is technical and possesses deep experience with software delivery and test automation frameworks. This is a technical leadership role where you will provide guidance to automation and manual testers while establishing QA protocols demonstrating a bias towards automation. This role collaborates closely with Software and Data Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers to develop a world class user experience for our customers. This role requires coding on a regular basis. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Technical Execution

• Build and manage testing frameworks for functional, system integration, and regression testing.
• Develop and execute automated test cases using commercial or open-source frameworks
• Collaborate with QA engineers to determine the best test and automation frameworks for web, API, and microservice testing
• Build and manage testing frameworks, test case documentation to facilitate functional, system integration, and regression testing
• Develop frameworks and automated test cases commercial or open-source frameworks
• Able to develop manual and automated testing strategies for existing systems
• Contribute designs and code for test automation workflows
• Champion adoption of AI tools to boost automation code and testing efficiencies.

Collaboration

• Partner with software engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure a world-class user experience
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Demos, and Backlog Refinement
• Collaborate with other software an QA engineers to determine the appropriate test and automation frameworks for web, API, and microservice testing
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Demos, Estimation, Backlog Refinement etc.
• Participate in architecture design sessions for new features

Team Leadership

• Oversee test case execution, analyze results, and report on test coverage and defect metrics.
• Mentor and provide guidance to both manual and automation testers
• Create documentation and training plans for continuous learning for QA team members
• Oversee the execution of test cases, analyze test results, and report on test coverage and defect metrics 
• Perform reviews, capture metrics to determine opportunities to eliminate churn in releases
• Will have oversight on all QA operations in multiple pods across software and data engineering teams

Innovation with AI   

• Openness to experiment with and evaluate emerging AI tools, providing feedback and sharing insights with engineering team.    
• Ability to balance AI-assisted productivity with deep understanding and manual craftsmanship when necessary.    
• Strong awareness of the limitations and ethical considerations of AI using in software development, especially regarding data privacy and code originality.    

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• 8+ years of test automation experience
• Experience working with RDBMS and NoSQL databases
• Experience creating automation for frontend, microservices, and APIs
• Strong knowledge of Agile testing methodologies and best practices
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles in Agile environments
• Familiarity with the entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression, Functional, Systems, Performance and Volume, User Acceptance).
• Experience with testing tools like Cypress, Selenium, BrowserStack, Postman, ReadyAPI etc. Cypress is preferred.
• Experience testing with 3rd party data integrations (ETL) is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to code in one or more programming languages Python, JavaScript, TypeScript etc. 
• AWS cloud experience is essential but will consider candidates with Azure or GCP
• Working kn