Engineer III, Quality Engineering

About Rent the Runway 

Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry & changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the worlds first & largest shared designer closet. RTRs 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 & 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 & accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods & kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers & differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics & technology. Under CEO & Co-Founder Jennifer Hymans leadership, RTR has been named to CNBCs Disruptor 50 five times in ten years, & has been placed on Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World" & as one of People Magazines Women Changing the World.

Galway Office 

Rent 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 & influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runways success & continued growth. 

The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US & enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering & Data Science footprint. Rent The Runways Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles & career paths in Technology.

Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, & entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, & work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.

Our Quality Engineering team thinks like our users, partnering with our Software Engineers to build features that create a seamless experience for our customers. Operating as a central QE department, with team members working as subject matter experts for our agile product teams, we embed best practices & effective processes across the Technology & Product organisation. The purpose of this role is to identify opportunities to streamline our processes & improve code quality & the user experience through automation. 

About the Role:

As we embark on our journey of continuously improving & building out our automation capability, RTR is looking for an Engineer to lead & guide multiple test automation efforts; improve our build, deploy, & test workflows; increase confidence in our systems & mitigate risk through automation. Knowledge of software testing methodologies, automation best practices, & software development life cycle (SDLC) will support further efficiencies in our engineering teams. 

You will have experience working with teams of engineers, as an Automation Engineer, & leading automation initiatives; you are detail-oriented, understand application development methodologies & want to apply your technical skills to build out automated test systems & deployment pipelines.

If you are a self-starter, passionate about test automation & a building culture of quality & want to work with a fun group of talented & driven engineers, this is the right role for you.  

What Youll Do:

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

About You:

• Multi-stack engineer with 7+ years experience in a breadth of development technologies & test automation frameworks - Specifically focussed on Modern JavaScript & associated tools (React, Jest, Cypress.io, Typescript); with knowledge of Java & related test automation frameworks a plus.
• Experience with RESTful APIs & Asynchronous Communication (AMQP, RabbitMQ), preferably in a microservices architecture environment.
• Experience with non-functional & load testing frameworks (Gatling, JMeter, Flood.io/Element)
• Experience creating & maintaining CI/CD Pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions, & integrating the automated testing suites in the pipeline
• Good understanding & experience with cloud & containerization principles (Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform).
• Solid analytical skills to troubleshoot problems & find areas for improvement - experience with logging frameworks & tools (e.g. Splunk, Loggly), monitoring & APM tools (e.g. SignalFX, New Relic, Datadog)

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, were committed to the happiness & wellbeing of our employees, & aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal & professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, & family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves & 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, & have some fun.
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future. 
• Comprehensive health, dental care & dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first & weve got you covered. 
• Company-wide events & 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. Employees have to option to work remotely 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, & membership of the Traveller community.

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