Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Boscov's Department Store, LLC

Quality Assurance Engineering Lead overseeing automated testing and QA standards at Boscov’s for eCommerce and integrations. Leading and coaching an offshore QA engineering team while modernizing testing frameworks.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeReading • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Quality EngineeringTest AutomationRegression TestingDefect ManagementQuality MetricsSmoke TestingRelease ValidationSQLPythonTypeScript

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsCommunication SkillsCollaboration SkillsCoaching SkillsWork Prioritization