Engineer III, Quality Engineering

Galway
Permanent
Full-time

9 days ago

Engineer III, Quality EngineeringAbout Rent the RunwayFounded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world's first and largest shared designer closet. RTR's mission has remained the same since its founding: powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer brands. The Closet in the Cloud offers a wide assortment of millions of items for every occasion, from evening wear and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers and differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics and technology. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman's leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC's “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World" and as one of People Magazine's “Women Changing the World.”Galway OfficeRent the Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019. Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway's success and continued growth.The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US enablng the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint. Rent The Runway's Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.About the team:Our Quality Engineering team thinks like our users, partnering with our Software Engineers to build features that create a seamless customer experience. Operating as a central QE department, with team members working as subject matter experts for our agile product teams, we embed best practices and effective processes across the Technology and Product organisation. This role aims to identify opportunities to streamline our processes and improve code quality and user experience through automation.About the Role:Rent the Runway is seeking an Engineer III to lead and guide multiple test automation efforts, improve build, deployment, and test workflows, and increase confidence in our systems to mitigate risk through automation as part of our ongoing journey to continuously improve and expand our automation capability. The ideal candidate will understand and apply software testing methodologies, automation and software development life cycle (SDLC) best practices to support further efficiencies in our engineering teams..You will have experience working with teams of engineers as an Automation Engineer and leading automation initiatives; you are detail-oriented, understand application development methodologies, and want to apply your technical skills to build out automated test systems and deployment pipelines.If you are a self-starter, passionate about test automation and building a culture of quality, and want to work with a fun group of talented and driven engineers, this is the right role for you.What You'll Do:

Design, develop, and execute automation scripts using open source tools (Jest, Cypress.io, and XCUI), debugging and defining corrective actions for a complex microservices system.
Translate business requirements into detailed, comprehensive, well-structured test plans and test cases. Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate quality testing activities.
Decompose the system to test services and existing functionality in isolation and perform more extensive end-to-end tests.
Develop and improve our test automation frameworks by leveraging cloud infrastructure and implementing the necessary CI/CD pipelines.
Improve our deployment approval processes to allow for automated testing and deployments to testing, pre-production and production environments - create and help improve these environments.
Partner with the Engineering teams to review quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful risk assessment and feedback.
Ensure detailed reporting to assess product quality to project stakeholders and track quality assurance metrics, e.g., defect densities and open defect counts.

About You:

Multi-stack engineer with 4+ years experience in a breadth of development technologies and test automation frameworks - Specifically focused on Modern JavaScript and associated tools (React, Jest, Cypress.io, Typescript); with knowledge of Java and related test automation frameworks a plus.
Experience with App Test Automation is a plus (XCUI framework).
Experience with RESTful APIs and Asynchronous Communication (AMQP, RabbitMQ), preferably in a microservices architecture environment.
Experience with non-functional and load-testing frameworks (Gatling, JMeter, K6, BrowserStack Turboscale).
Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions, and integrating the automated testing suites in the pipeline is a plus.
Good understanding and experience with cloud and containerization principles is a plus (Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform).
Solid analytical skills to troubleshoot problems and find areas for improvement - experience with logging frameworks and tools (Splunk, Loggly), monitoring, and APM tools (SignalFX, New Relic, Datadog).

Benefits:At Rent the Runway, we're committed to the happiness and well-being of our employees and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include but are not limited to:

Generous Paid Time Off, including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have some fun.
Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future.
Comprehensive health, dental care, and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first, and we've got you covered.
Company-wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
Hybrid Work - This is a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland, office 2-3 days per week.

Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.#LI-EM1By submitting your application below, you agree that you have read and acknowledge Rent the Runway's Candidate Privacy Policy, found .

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