Sr. Engineer, Quality

8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220

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Senior Quality Engineer - .Net Back-end Automation

About this job

Store Applications is a grouping of Value Streams that are responsible for all of the applications required to manage and execute the in-store experience for 200+ locations at CarMax. The in-store CarMax experience spans the entire customer journey; from customer inception to Sales to CarMax's loyalty programs. These teams operate within the Agile Framework and deliver continuous value to each of the Value Streams. These teams will help drive the bottom-line sales of a growing Fortune 500 company. As part of these Value Streams, CarMax is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to work directly with Agile development teams to ensure quality software is delivered to our associates and customers. 

What you will do – Essential Responsibilities

• Participates in all Agile ceremonies for Team
• Plans and executes tests to cover functional, integration, compatibility and regression needs and reports back findings to the Team
• Helps lead test automation effort, advocating for automation and contributes to framework design and suggests process improvements
• Reviews automated test runs, reports out on automated test execution and coverage statuses, and maintains broken automated tests
• Works with various areas of the business, grasp their processes and learn how they work together
• Understands complex problems, develops solutions and can communicate to both people inside and outside of their team
• Uses and modifies existing libraries / tools for automation testing
• Creates test strategies and plans for team and assists other teams when needed
• Identifies new tools or processes for adoption
• Writes general documentation regarding QE processes and tools
• Develops key quality metrics and reports to stakeholders in the organization

Purpose of the role

The Senior Quality Engineer is an essential role in the software development life cycle and ensures only properly tested software is released to production.  A flawless customer experience is our top priority and this role plays a major part in that company goal.  By designing and executing properly prepared test cases (both manual and automated) and working closely together with the entire agile team, this goal is achievable.  This position focuses on both the agile team as well as the QE organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance/engineering
• Strong understanding of IT systems including system design, Object Oriented Design, databases and programming concepts specifically HTML, browsers, JavaScript, Web Services and AJAX
• Strong background in test automation with front end and back-end automation tools
• Strong understanding of web-services/API’s and databases

• Ability to work within multiple work streams at one time
• Experience testing on various mobile and desktop devices
• Understanding of API concepts and experience with automated integration testing with APIs
• Experience using GitHub or a similar version control tool
• Experience working with build servers and CI/CD
• Strong oral/written communication, presentation, and organizational skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for driving strategic initiatives through large and diverse organizations
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Decision Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required

Preferred

• Strong Experience with:
  • C#/.Net strongly preferred
  • Playwright
  • Node.js
  • Typescript
  • API/Integration test automation
  • A/B testing

Work Location and Arrangement: This role can be based out of the Richmond, VA Technology Innovation Center or our Dallas Technology hub and have a Hybrid work arrangement.

Work Authorization:  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will not be considered for this specific role. 

About CarMax

CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve. This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer o