Quality Engineer III

Work Model; Hybrid, Framingham, MA

Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.

Our digital solutions team is more than a traditional IT organization. We are a team of passionate, collaborative, agile, inventive, customer-centric, results-oriented problem solvers. We are intellectually curious, love advancements in technology and seek to adapt technologies to drive Staples forward. We anticipate the needs of our customers and business partners and deliver reliable, customer-centric technology services.

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive QA efforts for OMS applications, tools, and/or software to ensure compliance with organizational standards and requirements. 
• Create and execute test plans on pre-release, upgrades and current versions of software to ensure applications meet user needs. 
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to understand requirements to design, develop and maintain comprehensive test plans.
• Develop test strategies and approaches for both manual and automation testing.
• Responsible for setting up Selenium test environments such as Selenium Web Driver, Maven Integration, TestNG, Java and Jenkins integration.
• Responsible for implementing automation using JAVA, Selenium Web driver, Selenium grib, Maven.
• Monitor testing progress, provide status updates, and escalate issues to management, test lead and other project participants regarding testing efforts.
• Evaluate compatibility of programs with existing software applications.
• Test and evaluate in-house and third-party software to ensure compliance with organizational standards and requirements.
• Collect and analyze data for software process evaluation and improvements, and integrate them into business processes to address the needs of the business.
• Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status.
• Document all problems and assists in their resolution.
• Know your domain as a subject matter expert to successfully support E2E regression testing.
• Provide mentoring to junior associates and may act as a QA lead.
• Handle moderately complex issues and problems, and refer more complex issues to higher-level staff.

What you bring to the table:

• Experience in QA and Testing of mid-to-large scale projects, manual and automated.
• Hands-on experience in Java, Selenium, TestNG within Object Model automation framework to successfully create and modify existing automation Java framework.
• Hands-on experience in integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient with HTML, XML and Java.
• Hands-on experience with micro-services. 
• Experience working in projects utilizing Agile methodology.
• Knowledge of Rest API web services. 
• Knowledge of SQL query.
• Familiar with web design and Perl.

What’s needed- Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience:
  • Creating and maintaining test plans, test data, and test automation.
  • Driving testing through all phases of the development lifecycle.
  • Supporting E2E regression testing.
• 3+ years of experience:
  • Developing, maintaining, and executing Java/Selenium test automation scripts using TestNG Local, Selenium Grid, and Cloud-based execution.
  • Implementing Java, Selenium, TestNG, and Object Model automation frameworks.
  • Extending existing automation suites using Selenium, Java, or equivalent framework.

What’s needed- Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field or 
• Familiar in C, C++; UNIX and/or NT systems.

We Offer:

• Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups
• Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule
• Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more!

At Staples, “inclusion” is an action word. It represents what we do to ensure that all employees feel valued and supported to contribute to their fullest potential. When we operate inclusively, diversity naturally follows. This is why we work hard to foster an inclusive culture, as we seek employees with unique and varied perspectives and areas of expertise. The result is a better workplace and innovative thinking that helps us exceed our customers’ expectations -- through the power of the people behind our iconic brand.

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.