Kontoor Brands is a portfolio of three of the world’s most iconic lifestyle, outdoor and workwear brands: Wrangler®, Lee® and Helly Hansen®. Kontoor Brands is a purpose-led organization focused on leveraging its global platform, strategic sourcing model and best-in-class supply chain to drive brand growth and deliver long- term value for its stakeholders. DUTIES: Play a lead role in planning, implementing, executing, and measuring all aspects of Quality and Testing (automated and manual). Define, implement, and drive a testing strategy focused on continuous eCommerce software quality and testing efficiency improvement. Establish a highly effective and optimized functional testing approach for regression and feature testing of our eCommerce sites including appropriate coverage across devices, browsers, operating systems, and regional sites/languages. Collaborate with the scrum team through project initiation, design, implementation, testing, and delivery. Provide QA status updates to the scrum team and all key stakeholders. Consistently work to reduce the risk of a poor user experience and/or loss of sales. Funnel learnings back to the product/development teams to continuously improve the product and development process. Own functional test case development for functional testing. Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to align on features/functionality to be developed and establish test cases to validate development work in standard and edge cases. Partner with development teams for system integration test case development and testing. Establish testing and process requirements for internal/external testing team members to ensure best practices are defined and followed. Liaise with the Business and Customer Care teams to log and validate defects. Work with the Product Managers to influence prioritization for development work and communicate status changes with the defect owner. Define the test automation strategy and direct its implementation to improve eCommerce software quality, script performance, script maintainability/efficiency. Oversee quality assurance processes for our Salesforce e-commerce applications (Commerce, Service, Marketing and other clouds), Front End, and other key digital platforms including CMS, PCM, CDP, and CRM. Provide regular direction , mentoring, and coaching to QA team members. Report defects and follows up on their closure Analyze test results, report test metrics, prepare and present test reports. Communicate progress proactively and regularly Measure and manage QA team’s efficiency and effectiveness Analyze, design, and develop test plans and strategies including coverage for the latest devices, operating systems, browsers, and languages/locales. Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Dev leads, and Architects to identify test scenarios. Write and execute test cases, writes and ensures QA team writes clear defect details. Coordinate with Scrum teams in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle and facilitate certification for production deployment. Develop and oversee the development of test automation strategies that will enhance overall quality with a goal of continuously improving test coverage, script maintainability, and script performance. Determine integrated testing solutions that include cross dependencies between organizations and systems. Work with eCommerce Architects to ensure that data and environments are consistently available for testing. Stay current in software testing technology, methodology , measurement, performance, and security trends.