QA Test Lead

Job Description

Bluecore is a marketing technology company that’s reimagining how the world’s fastest growing retail brands transform casual shoppers into lifetime customers. Through our patented retail data model and the recent release of Bluecore CommunicateTM and Bluecore SiteTM, we replace manual processes with an intelligent, AI-driven workflow. We are credited with doubling email revenue, and increasing customer retention for more than 400 brands, including Express, Tommy Hilfiger, The North Face, Teleflora, and Bass Pro Shops. We have been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor and ranked No. 241 on the Inc. 500 List, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. We are looking for someone who can evolve our test infrastructure in order to increase our test coverage for our web applications and backend systems to meet the growing needs of our platform. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background and a track record of working with teams to deliver high-quality software with a rapidly growing team of software engineers. We see technology as a means to solving problems and getting things done and thus prioritize talent over existing skill set. We use Google Cloud hosted infrastructure services including Google App Engine, Kubernetes, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL. Our stack consists primarily of Python and Golang on the backend and JavaScript (React) on the frontend. Our culture emphasizes making good tradeoffs, working as a team, and leaving your ego at the door.

Responsibilities

• Influence and drive QA strategy and long-term initiatives
• Pick and implement performant, reliable, high-quality automation frameworks in order to enhance our test coverage
• Build and maintain test cases in a variety of frameworks, (e.g. Cypress, custom-built)Work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver high quality products.
• Coach and grow our automated and manual QA team members through mentorship, leading by example, and participate in the hiring strategy and process
• Advising on best practices for testing scalable solutions, including test plan reviews, bug triage, and onboarding new technologies
• Be an evangelist for testing culture within Bluecore

Requirement

• 5+ years of software testing experience, 2+ years of management or mentoring experience
• Deep knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Experience in testing and maintaining modern applications or front-end technologies on public clouds (e.g. GCP, AWS)
• Proficiency in Python, or any other modern programming language
• Track record of delivering high quality software
• Excellent communication skills, used to collaborate both within engineering and across all functions of the company to drive quality and reliability initiatives
• Passion for learning new technologies and developing skills
• Knack for getting things done, whether it be independently or on a teamHighly reliable, and deeply accountable
• Experience building similar industry solutions preferred: especially data-driven/complex/customizable enterprise​ ​SaaS​ products within the marketing/advertising/e-commerce or other emerging technology (Artificial Intelligence, etc.) spaces

We are proud of the culture of flexibility, inclusivity and trust that we have built around our workforce. We are a remote first organization with the option to potentially work in our New York headquarters on occasion moving forward. We love the opportunity to come together – but employees will always have the option on where they work best. At Bluecore we believe in encouraging an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, demonstrate their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences. Bluecore is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fair hiring practices and to building a welcoming environment for all team members. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, familial status or veteran status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Apply for this job