This role will lead the Global Trade, Inbound Logistics and Outbound Logistics Technology teams, bringing in QA engineering best practices in building and deploying microservices version of our homegrown platform that acts as a parcel execution engine, along with all other vendor managed software’s in a SaaS platform for Inbound Logistics and Trade systems (Infor Nexus and E2Open). These platforms integrate with our Warehouse Management System, Omni and other upstream supply chain systems to retrieve shipping labels and tracking numbers from our carrier partners (e.g., FedEx, USPS, Canada Post) for outgoing packages to our stores and guests, provides a front-end application for our retail stores to gain visibility of incoming cartons as well as supports SFS functionality in North America and global regions.
A day in the life:
Attend daily stand-up calls to review open dev and support incidents
- Be the liaison operating in a technical leadership capacity with functional QA leads and back-end java engineers to design and develop automation framework on foundational principles
- Lead the team of SDET engineers to build and maintain automation frameworks and develop scripts to support QA scenarios
- Producing and evaluating code to build automated testing programs
- Be in the process of Continuous Improvement for high performing, robust and scalable platforms using in-depth cloud computing knowledge and skills
- Integrating automated tests into the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure tests are run automatically as part of all build and deployment phases
- Own QA automation roadmap on team in collaboration with Sr. Architect and Sr. Engineers and Staff Engineer
- Work with other SDETs to help debug and troubleshoot issues found around test scripts
- Assess speed, scalability and stability of the platform under high volume conditions and use tools to simulate peak loads and identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
- Collaborate with Engineers, product and business teams to ensure quality is built into our software engineering using test-driven development
- Monitor test results and report on quality of development
- Work with teams to add and refine acceptance criteria and the definition-of-done to user stories
- Partner with all engineers on permanent fixes for recurring issues
- Conduct research to aid in product troubleshooting and optimization efforts
- Attend Post-Mortems and work on action items from deployment defects
- Use innovation and automation, when possible, to provide sustainable solutions and scalable performance test results
Qualifications:
12+ years of experience of software engineering experience with focus on QA automation
- 10+ years of working experience in design and development of RESTful APIs using Java, JSON, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
- Knowledge and exposure in Supply Chain Domain with a focus on warehouse management and digital
- Strong working knowledge and experience in relational databases with emphasis on SQL query language and stored procedures
- Senior level knowledge of DevOps principles and practices
- Experienced with infrastructure as a code and multi cloud strategy
- Self-starter and has pride in taking initiative
- Excellent project management and problem-solving skills
- Strong business acumen and written and verbal skills
- Challenges the status quo, champions change and influences others to change
- Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results
- Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks
- Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously
- Strong knowledge of the ITIL Framework (Incident, Problem, Change, Release Management)
Must haves:
Prior working experience in retail industry, preferably in parcel shipping solution integrations and approaches
- Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life
- Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results
- Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same
- Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure
- Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships
- Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously
Additional Notes
Candidate should be able to lead all other SDETs, as part of the shared model of an SDET POD and be able to work under engineering directional leadership of the Staff Engineer, Global Logistics and Trade Technology.