Senior Quality Automation Engineer

Columbia Sportswear Company; India; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company is seeking a Quality Engineer II based in India. This role focuses on designing and implementing automation solutions while collaborating with teams to foster modern quality and DevOps practices.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree, with 5-8 years of professional experience and expertise in test automation frameworks and web programming. This position requires a detail-oriented, problem-solving individual who can communicate effectively and work collaboratively.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional experience.
• 5+ years as a quality engineer developing test automation frameworks.
• Experience with web programming skills like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains automation solutions using tools to support product teams.
• Creates and maintains build and deployment pipelines.
• Oversees user account creation and management in DevOps tools.

Skills

Automation Solutions

Test Automation Frameworks

Problem Solving

Web Programming Skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Tricentis Tosca

Node.js

Java

GitHub

Jira

Job description

About the Position

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.

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: Ensures timely delivery and releases across application and service codebases (e.g., packages - SFCC, D365, SAP; services - AWS, Azure and AEM).
• DevOps Enablement: Evangelizes 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 and helps more junior team members learn, grow and contribute to the team.

Qualities

• Attentive to detail
• A problem solver
• A mature communicator
• Collaborative

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required in 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, and 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

Disclaimer

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.