Senior Engineer I - Quality

Who we are:

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

About this team:

lululemon Engineering is dedicated to building secure, reliable, and performant products for our guests and partners. We embrace the philosophies of Agile, DevOps, and SRE to accelerate our development process and provide the most enjoyable, inclusive, and supportive work environment possible. We believe our journey is more fun when it is collaborative, as we focus on the future instead of the past. As an Engineer, you will work as part of a global team supported by our business and architecture partners to help us collaboratively develop and deliver industry leading technology solutions that drive lululemons business goals.

Core Responsibilities:

As a Senior Engineer I, you will bring a high level of technical knowledge as well as strong mentoring abilities. You will be counted on as a leader in your technology space as you contribute to all areas of development and operations (pre-production to production). You will work closely with a Technology Manager, using your experience and knowledge to guide a team of Engineers though their day-to-day process, and provide a central escalation point for production concerns. You will be part of an Agile production release team and may perform on-call support functions as needed. As a Senior Engineer I, you would be a primary caretaker of production systems and would maintain a deep understanding of how delivered products are functioning.

• Are a main contributor in Agile ceremonies
• Provide mentorship and facilitate engineering training for a team of Engineers
• Perform and delegate engineering assignments to ensure production readiness is maintained
• Conduct research to aid in product troubleshooting and optimization efforts
• Conduct research to guide product development and tools selection
• Provide an escalation point and participate in on-call support rotations
• Actively monitor key metrics and report on trends
• Participate in our Engineering Community of Practice
• Contribute to engineering automation, management or development of production level systems
• Contribute to project engineering design and standards verification
• Perform reliability monitoring and support as needed to ensure products meet guest expectations

Qualifications:

• Completed bachelors degreeor diploma (or equivalent experience)inComputerScience, Software Engineering or Software Architecture preferred; candidates with substantial and relevant industry experience are also eligible
• 8 9 years ofengineering experience
• 10+ years of software engineering/Quality Engineering experience including 6+ years solid experience in defining, developing, and executing comprehensive testing strategies across our product stack, focusing on test automation and leading QA/QE teams.
• Experience in closely working with product Managers, software developer & architects to understand the design/technology and ensuring alignment with Product requirement and business goals.
• Solid Hands-on experience on Typescript (Playwright/Cypress Framework). Ability to set up projects from scratch, write end-to-end tests, and use appropriate commands and assertions.
• Build the test strategy, setup test infra, test data and build execution models to drive the end-to-end quality efforts of backend systems/services and web applications.
• Design develop and maintain scalable/reusable test automation framework for UI, API, Microservices & End-to-End Testing best practices.
• Working experience in integrating automated test into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Gitlab CI.
• Solid working knowledge of SQL/Database concept & extensive testing experience with databases (Postgres/Snowflake/MongoDB). Ability to write complex SQL queries.
• Lead defect triage meetings, track issues to closure and ensure clear communication of quality status and risks to stakeholders.
• Experience in software engineering practices with Spring Boot, Batch scheduler like Airflow, Kafka or any messaging skills.
• Good Experience in working with test-driven development (TDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Relevant certification preferably ISTQB Advance level certification.
• Experience in working with AWS cloud or any other cloud platforms
• Knowledge and work experience on containerization, docker, Kubernetes etc are added advantage
• Self-starter with the ability to make independent decisions and the judgment to know when to seek guidance
• Familiarity with SAFe agile methodology, practices and tools
• Provide mentorship/technical guidance to QA/QE team members.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to work under pressure and during critical production issues
• Industry experience in Retail domain is a plus.
• Experience working with global team.

Must-Have Skills:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesnt take themselves too seriously.