Quality Assurance Engineer North Reading, MA

BRUNT Workwear; Reading (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

BRUNT Workwear, based in Reading, MA, seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer to own the QA function as the sole internal QA resource. You’ll report to the SVP of Technology and build test strategies spanning our Shopify storefronts, B2B catalogs, ERP, planning, and data systems.

You’ll partner with Technology, Merchandising, Operations, and Retail to define test requirements, coordinate UAT, and ensure every release meets BRUNT’s quality standards while shaping QA tooling, processes, and automation

Qualifications

• Experience owning QA strategies across ecommerce and ERP platforms.
• Ability to define acceptance criteria with stakeholders at sprint starts.
• Experience implementing QA processes and documentation practices.

Responsibilities

• Own QA across BRUNT’s commerce and back-end platforms.
• Develop and maintain test plans, cases, and scripts.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing with stakeholders.
• Ensure releases meet quality standards and drive test automation initiatives.

Skills

QA

Test planning

Agile

Cross-functional collaboration

Jira defect tracking

Tools

Shopify

NetSuite

Toolio

Vibe IQ

Centric

Celigo

Google BigQuery

Jira

Job description

We’re leading the way in redefining the workwear category. Our mission is to engineer better boots and apparel for our country’s tradesmen and women by working directly with real workers to learn what they actually need to execute their jobs.

The BRUNT team is not only devoted to improving on the old workwear standards, but we’re also creating a community that tradesmen and women can call their own. From our weekly hangouts at the BRUNT Garage, to hosting events across the country, we’re all about getting boots on the ground and building something real with the BRUNT crew.

BRUNT is a fast-growing workwear brand built for the trades. As we scale our digital and operational platforms, we are committed to delivering reliable, high-quality experiences across every system our business and customers depend on. The Quality Assurance Engineer is a critical role within our lean DevOps team, responsible for ensuring the integrity and performance of BRUNT’s commerce and operational technology stack.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

As the Quality Assurance Engineer, you will own the QA function at BRUNT as our sole internal QA resource. Reporting directly to the SVP of Technology, you will be responsible for building and executing test strategies that span our full platform ecosystem, from customer-facing Shopify storefronts and B2B wholesale catalogs to back-end ERP, planning, and data systems.

You will work cross-functionally across the Technology, Merchandising, Operations, and Retail teams to define testing requirements, coordinate user acceptance testing with stakeholders, and ensure that every platform release meets BRUNT’s quality standards before it reaches our customers or internal users. You will also play a foundational role in shaping how QA is practiced at BRUNT, with the opportunity to implement tooling, processes, and automation infrastructure that scales with the business.

HOW YOU’LL DO IT:

TEST STRATEGY & PLANNING

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts for all platforms within the BRUNT technology stack.


• Define QA scope and acceptance criteria in collaboration with the SVP of Technology, product owners, and cross‑functional stakeholders at the start of each sprint.


• Establish and continuously improve QA processes, standards, and documentation practices across the DevOps team.

PLATFORM & INTEGRATION TESTING

• Execute end-to-end functional testing across BRUNT’s Shopify platform, including the DTC eCommerce storefront, B2B wholesale catalog, and Retail Point of Sale environments.


• Perform integration and interface testing across back‑end platforms including NetSuite, Toolio, Vibe IQ, Centric, Celigo, and Google BigQuery to validate data accuracy, workflow integrity, and system interoperability.


• Conduct regression testing following sprint releases, platform updates, and configuration changes to ensure existing functionality is not degraded.


• Validate data flows and synchronization between Shopify and integrated back‑end systems, identifying and documenting discrepancies or failures.

AGILE & SPRINT EXECUTION

• Participate actively in sprint ceremonies including planning, stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives within 2–4 week sprint cycles.


• Manage and prioritize QA workload across concurrent sprint initiatives, ensuring testing is completed within sprint timelines.


• Log, track, and manage defects through their full lifecycle in Jira, providing clear reproduction steps, severity classifications, and supporting documentation.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COORDINATION

• Partner with Merchandising, Operations, Wholesale, and Retail teams to facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT), gathering and incorporating feedback into test cycles.


• Serve as the QA point of contact for non-technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into testable scenarios and communicating testing