Lead Quality Engineer

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Our family of brands are Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, and Mark and Graham. These brands are among the best known and most respected in the industry.

This position can be located in san Francisco or Rocklin. The Williams-Sonoma ECommerce Engineering organization is seeking an energetic and talented Lead Software Quality Engineer to help deliver high value, high quality features to our industry leading ECommerce sites. At Williams-Sonoma we build 6 of the retail industries leading websites - Williams-Sonoma, west elm, Mark and Graham and the Pottery Barn family. Engineers working at WSI get to work full-stack, extending our beautiful front-end user experience all the way through to enterprise services that support personalization, order management and other server side features.

* Work with your Scrum team to improve the quality of the features delivered * By coding and maintaining effective automated tests of those features * By working with other engineers to ensure that features are designed in a way that facilitates automated testing * By analyzing designs and crafting test cases that can effectively reveal deficiencies in the code * Review the work of other engineers in a collegial fashion to ensure the work product is of high quality and consistent with our standards * Participate in, and potentially lead, Communities-Of-Practice in those technologies in which you have an interest * Sharing skills and knowledge to help further our TDD and BDD initiatives * Assist in identification, proof-of-concept work and the selection of testing tools and processes * Serve as an active member of a Scrum team and participate in all planning, stand-up and retrospective meetings * Champion functional test automation in all its forms, help bring our test automation practice and tooling to the cutting edge

• Demonstrated programming ability • 6-8 years experience as a Quality Engineer or Quality Analyst • An understanding of software development best-practices • Knowledge of quality engineering testing methods, tools and standards • Ability to review, understand and contribute to proposed designs and offer thoughtful feedback • Ability to create and communicate testing strategies both verbally and in writing • Enthusiasm for constant improvement as an Engineer • Demonstrated experience in one or more of: Ruby, Selenium Java, WebDriver, RSpec, Watir, Cucumber, FitNesse, Java, JUnit, JBehave • Basic understanding of relational and NoSQL database technologies • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field