Senior Quality Automation Engineer

At Columbia, we’re as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we’re proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.  

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It’s perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving. 

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.  

And we believe in you.  

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. CSC Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable technology infrastructure across four global brands, an e-commerce platform, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, e-commerce, data, and supply chain platforms to enhance customer experience and service in an ever-evolving industry.

Sr Quality Engineer uses solid knowledge and experience of software engineering in the areas of Cloud Automation, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD), scripting and development languages to take an active role in designing and implementing Automation solutions independently. This role uses understanding of command line interface (CLI), OS interfaces, environments, scripting and development languages, to take a more active role in facilitating software projects, releases, processes and tools. This position requires keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and mature communication skills in a collaborative environment across our enterprise.

• Design, maintain and execute automated test cases for GUI, functional, API, performance and end-to-end tests of eCommerce sites across form factors.
• Partner within the engineering team to build out continuous integration environments and test harnesses for cross-browser/cross-operating system testing framework.
• Develop and run test scenarios and test scripts and perform functional testing of code changes and production updates across various browsers for all websites.
• Develop test automation strategies and implement scripts using Playwright
• Ability to mentor analysts and engineering team on benefits of testing methodologies and QA rigor.
• Ensure comprehensive end-to-end coverage of automated regression test suites.
• Evangelize modern Quality and DevOps practice by embedding with and building automated solutions with teams throughout Enterprise.
• Provides peer-level technical guidance for team members. Helps more junior team members learn, grow and contribute to the team.

• Well-versed in browsers, operating systems, and mobile form factors.
• Knowledgeable in web programming skills (JavaScript, CSS, XML, JSON).
• Able to work collaboratively within cross-functional and distributed teams based on strong team spirit, solid work ethic, and good communication skills.

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Computer Science, Informatics, or Engineering) or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Quality engineering experience with web environments.
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript, CSS, HTML.
• Ability to write robust test automation using playwright (JavaScript) framework.
• 2+ years’ experience working with continuous integration servers such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience planning, developing or collaborating on test automation frameworks and test suites.
• Experience with Git, Git Flow, pull requests, and other DVCS concepts.

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.