Senior QA Engineer
| Company | iRobot |
|---|---|
| Location | Remote in USA, Bedford, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance roles, with 2+ years in a lead or senior capacity.
- Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar.
- Experience writing and executing API-level test cases and validating third-party service integrations.
- Strong familiarity with test planning, case management, and defect tracking tools and processes.
- Experience leading QA strategy across multiple teams or domains.
- Understanding of ecommerce ecosystems, including experience or familiarity with order management systems and digital marketing tools.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into release workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Experience mentoring and guiding QA engineers, including offshore or remote team members.
- Excellent communication skills with a proactive, collaborative mindset.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the QA practice for our ecommerce platform, establishing and championing best practices for both manual and automated testing.
- Lead strategic planning for QA efforts that span multiple teams and systems, including ecommerce, order management, and digital marketing.
- Guide, mentor, and support a small offshore QA team (manual and automation-focused engineers).
- Develop and oversee test plans for new website features, backend integrations, and platform releases.
- Enhance and maintain the automated test suite using modern test frameworks for both frontend and backend systems.
- Design and execute test strategies for APIs, third-party integrations, and cross-system workflows.
- Ensure comprehensive test coverage across all layers — UI, API, and backend services — with appropriate risk assessments.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are testable, traceable, and well-validated.
- Act as the go-to QA point of contact for ecommerce platform initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with Playwright (our current UI automation framework).
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, TestRail, Git, and related Atlassian or CI/CD ecosystems.
- Exposure to performance, accessibility, or security testing methodologies.
- Prior experience in QA roles supporting omnichannel commerce or headless architecture environments.