Lead Automation Engineer

Job Description
At Williams-Sonoma we build 15 of the retail industry's leading websites – Williams Sonoma, west elm, Mark and Graham, Rejuvenation, Green Row and the Pottery Barn family in the USA. Engineers working at WSI get to work full-stack, extending our end user experience all the way through to enterprise services that support personalization, order management and other server side features.

Responsibilities

• 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

• Bring leadership to our Quality Engineering Guild
• Sharing skills and knowledge to help further our test data management and test

automation initiatives

• Assist in identification, proof-of-concept work and the selection of testing tools and

processes

• Identify and implement approaches which reduce the amount of time needed to regress a

software release candidate from days to hours

• Serve as a leading 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

• Serve as the technical owner of WSI's test automation framework
• Identify and address opportunities to run test automation as close to feature code being

written as possible

• Improve efficacy and reduce run time of automation suites

Criteria

• Demonstrated programming ability
• 10+ 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
• Deep understanding of quality engineering design patterns such as Page Object Model, etc.
• 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
• Advanced experience in one or more of: Selenium + Java, WebDriver, Playwright + JavaScript,

Junit, TestNG

• Demonstrated success testing large heterogenous systems end to end
• Knowledge of test reporting + test case management tooling such as Allure, TestRail, etc.
• Experienced in building and maintaining test automation frameworks (UI, API, end to end. etc.)
• Understanding of relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Experience with git, GitHub, and general collaborative development.

About Us
Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Today, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is one of the United States' largest e-commerce retailers with some of the best known and most beloved brands in home furnishings. Our family of brands are Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, GreenRow and Mark and Graham. We currently operate retail stores globally. Our products are also available to customers through our catalogs and online worldwide.

Williams-Sonoma has established a technology center in Pune, India to enhance its global operations. The India Technology Center serves as a critical hub for innovation and focuses on developing cutting-edge solutions in areas such as e-commerce, supply chain optimization, and customer experience management. By integrating advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning, the India Technology Center plays a crucial role in accelerating Williams-Sonoma's growth and maintaining its competitive edge in the global market