OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD COME PLAY IN OURS.
At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.
Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: It's perfect. Now make it better. As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.
We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.
And we believe in you.
About The Position
Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.
The Quality Engineer II uses solid knowledge and experience of software engineering in the areas of Cloud Automation, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD), scripting and development languages to take an active role in designing and implementing Automation solutions in a moderately supervised context. This role uses understanding of command line interface (CLI), OS interfaces, environments, scripting and development languages, to take a more active role in facilitating software projects, releases, processes and tools. This position requires a keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and mature communication skills in a collaborative environment across our enterprise.
How You'll Make a Difference
- Automation: Builds and maintains automation solutions using internal and external tools supporting product teams throughout the enterprise.
- Technical Design/Process Enablement: Works with Senior Quality and DevOps Engineers in the creation and implementation of Tools that facilitate development, QA, business, and release processes. Can implement solutions for technical problems as designed and provide feedback on proposed solutions.
- Pipelines: Creates and maintains build and deployment pipelines supporting a variety of software development teams in the Enterprise.
- User Management: Oversees Account creation and management for Users in DevOps and Quality Tools (examples: Jira, GitHub, Quality Center, Azure DevOps)
- Releases: Ensure timely delivery and releases across Application and Service (e.g., Packages - SFCC, D365, SAP; Services - AWS, Azure and/ AEM) codebases
- DevOps Enablement: Evangelize modern Quality and DevOps practices by embedding with and building automated solutions with teams throughout the Enterprise.
- Mentorship: Provides peer level technical guidance for team members. Helps more junior team members learn, grow and contribute to the team.
YOU ARE
- Attentive to detail
- A problem solver
- A mature communicator
- Collaborative
YOU HAVE
- YOU HAVE Bachelor's Degree required Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. 5-8 years professional experience 5+ years as a Quality engineer developing and collaborating on test automation frameworks and test suites.
Test automation development experience with Tricentis Tosca, development experience with Node.js (Playwright or TestCafe) or Java (Selenium Webdriver) frameworks.
Knowledge of web programming skills (JavaScript, Node.js, CSS, HTML, DOM, JSON etc.)
Solid knowledge and experience of software engineering in the areas of Automation, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD), scripting and development languages, command line interface (CLI), OS interfaces, and SysOps, including account creation and permissions structures.
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
