Senior Quality Engineer - SDET

Who we are:

Founded in 1998 at Vancouver, lululemon is a performance and lifestyle product company that create transformational products and experiences that build meaningful connections, unlocking greater possibility and wellbeing for all. We are driven by our brand purpose to elevate human potential by making individuals feel their best which helps us design our products with high filter and high style. We use a unique product creation methodology called Science of Feel in all our products to offer convenient, comfortable, and long-lasting experience. We owe our success to our innovative products, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in.

About this team:

lululemon Quality Engineering is dedicated to delivering secure, reliable, and performant experiences for our guests and partners. We embrace Agile, DevOps, and SRE practices, embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle and using automation to provide fast, meaningful feedback. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will work with a global team of engineering, product, business, and architecture partners to advance quality practices and deliver technology solutions that support lululemon's business goals. We value collaboration, continuous learning, and an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can contribute to building quality products.

A Day in the Life:

• Define and drive quality engineering and automation strategies, roadmaps, and standards across assigned products, aligned with business priorities, delivery commitments, and technology direction.
• Provide technical leadership to a team of approximately 10 quality engineers, coordinating day-to-day priorities, assignments, dependencies, and delivery with the Technology Manager.
• Plan and drive automation transformation initiatives, establish milestones and success measures, and report outcomes such as coverage, execution time, reliability, and adoption.
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce innovations, including AI-assisted engineering and testing tools; validate their effectiveness, accuracy, security, and maintainability.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution, reporting, and fast feedback; investigate and resolve complex test and pipeline failures.
• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders to review requirements, identify quality risks, define test coverage, and resolve dependencies.
• Guide test planning, estimation, execution, and defect management; monitor progress, remove blockers, and escalate risks or decisions when needed.
• Review test and application code, mentor engineers through pairing and technical feedback, and help develop the team's automation and engineering capabilities.
• Communicate quality metrics, test outcomes, residual risks, and release readiness; support production investigations and drive improvements based on findings.

Must Haves:

• 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 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 doesn't take themselves too seriously.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 to 13 years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering, SDET, software development, or test automation, including substantial experience building automation solutions.
• Strong software engineering skills, including object-oriented design, clean code, code reviews, and complex problem-solving. Prior application development experience is a plus.
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Java and experience designing, developing, executing, and maintaining automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, microservices, and integrated systems. Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript is desirable.
• Hands-on experience with tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and REST Assured, including evaluating and selecting tools to meet technical and business needs.
• Proven experience designing and evolving scalable, reusable automation architectures, frameworks, shared libraries, test data solutions, and quality infrastructure.
• Experience defining and executing quality engineering and automation strategies, roadmaps, standards, and measurable improvement goals across products or teams.
• Experience leading teams of approximately 10 quality engineers, coordinating delivery and technical work, mentoring team members, and managing priorities and dependencies while remaining hands-on.
• Experience planning and tracking test delivery, estimating effort, managing quality risks and defects, and communicating progress and release readiness to stakeholders.
• Experience leading automation transformation initiatives and introducing innovations, with demonstrated ability to measure outcomes such as coverage, execution speed, reliability, or adoption.
• Experience automating backend testing for Order Management Systems (OMS), such as IBM Sterling Order Management, including order creation, inventory, fulfillment, shipment, cancellation, and return workflows.
• Experience validating order lifecycle events, business rules, data consistency, and integrations through APIs, databases, messaging, or event-driven interfaces.
• Experience setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, including automated execution, reporting, and failure analysis.
• Experience evaluating and using AI-assisted development and testing tools to support test design, automation, or failure analysis, and validating outputs for accuracy, security, and maintainability.
• Strong diagnostic skills for investigating complex test failures and production defects across applications, services, environments, and system dependencies.
• Experience working across the software development lifecycle using Agile and DevOps practices, with a focus on early testing, continuous feedback, and release readiness.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs and align teams on quality priorities.
• Familiarity with engineering tools including GitHub, IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, Jira, Confluence, and project management platforms.