Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Boscov’s•Reading, PA

11h

About The Position

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!

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.