About PetSmart
PetSmart is a premier pet retailer dedicated to enhancing the bonds between pets and their owners through comprehensive services, products, and community activities. Our Data & Martech team is at the forefront of employing technology and data analytics to improve customer experiences, streamline operations, and foster innovation.

Overview
This job is responsible for increasing and assuring the level of quality of PetSmart solutions and services by partnering with the business to validate the software under test meets the pre-determined acceptance criteria, by designing, writing, and executing automated tests in a complex integrated environment to determine whether the product is ready to release and by contributing to QA engineering and testing best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement automated test scripts for web, mobile, and desktop applications using industry-standard automation tools and frameworks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements, identify test scenarios, and define automation strategies.
• Design, maintain, and enhance test automation frameworks to ensure scalability, reliability, and reusability across projects.
• Execute automated test suites, analyze test results, and report defects to ensure the quality and reliability of software releases.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups to provide input on testability, automation feasibility, and overall quality assurance processes.
• Continuously evaluate and incorporate new automation tools, technologies, and best practices to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work closely with developers to troubleshoot issues, reproduce defects, and ensure timely resolution of quality-related issues.
• Collaborate with QA Engineers to identify automation opportunities, prioritize test cases, and maintain a balance between automated and manual testing efforts.
• Document test procedures, test cases, and automation scripts to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure reproducibility of test scenarios.
• Support Production deployments and critical manual and automated smoke testing.
• Ensures that automated test code adheres to PetSmart standards and participates in automation strategy and optimization efforts.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and trouble-shooting skills.
• Collaborative and a team player.

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience in Retail, or E-Commerce domain.
• Experience is automating RESTful web service APIs using frameworks like Rest-Assured or tools like JMeter, SOAP UI.
• Experience in automating web and mobile application across multiple devices and platforms using test automation tools and frameworks. (Example tool set: JMeter, Selenium, Test NG, Appium, Tosca, Rest-Assured, Postman).
• Code Analysis/Review – Experience reviewing QA automation code.
• Experience with continuous integration tools like Cloudbees (Jenkins), GitHub, GIT.
• Agile Methodologies and/or Waterfall methodologies.
• Experienced in working on Jira, and Confluence.
• Languages: Expertise in at least one programming language for Automation, preferably Java.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience of 5 years or more as a QA Automation Engineer, Quality Engineer Functional or similar role.
• 3-5 years of experience writing test code in multiple languages (Java, Python).
• Solid understanding of software testing practices and agile development.
• Works independently under minimal direction with strong work ethic.
• Effective communication skills and sense of teamwork and positive enthusiasm.

Nice to Have

• Languages: Python, Groovy.
• Test Management tools like, e.g.: QTest, HP ALM suite.
• Proficient in Integration, Sanity, End-to-End, Regression, Beta/Acceptance testing.