About this role
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