Overview
Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway disrupts the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changes the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud. RTR’s mission is powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte and shop resale from hundreds of designer brands. The Closet in the Cloud offers millions of items for every occasion, including evening wear, accessories, workwear, denim, maternity, outerwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine that connects engaged customers and brand partners on a platform built around brand, data, logistics and technology.
Galway Office
Rent the Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019. Based in the historic Claddagh area, the Galway team tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to RTR’s success and growth. Our Galway office is the company’s first international office outside the US, enabling expansion of Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprints. Galway-based employees have opportunities to grow across several roles and career paths in Technology.
About the team
Our Quality Engineering team thinks like our users, partnering with Software Engineers to build features that create a seamless customer experience. Operating as a central QE department with team members as subject matter experts for agile product teams, we embed best practices and processes across Technology and Product. This role aims to identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve code quality and user experience through automation.
About the Role
Rent the Runway is seeking an Engineer III to lead and guide multiple test automation efforts, improve build, deployment, and test workflows, and increase confidence in our systems to mitigate risk through automation as part of our ongoing journey to expand automation capability. The ideal candidate will understand and apply software testing methodologies, automation and software development life cycle (SDLC) best practices to support efficiencies in our engineering teams.
You will have experience working with teams of engineers as an Automation Engineer and leading automation initiatives; you are detail-oriented, understand application development methodologies, and want to apply your technical skills to build out automated test systems and deployment pipelines.
If you are a self-starter, passionate about test automation and building a culture of quality, and want to work with a fun group of talented engineers, this is the right role for you.
What You’ll Do
* Design, develop, and execute automation scripts using open source tools (Jest, Cypress.io, and XCUI), debugging and defining corrective actions for a complex microservices system.
* Translate business requirements into detailed, comprehensive, well-structured test plans and test cases. Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate quality testing activities.
* Decompose the system to test services and existing functionality in isolation and perform more extensive end-to-end tests.
* Develop and improve our test automation frameworks by leveraging cloud infrastructure and implementing the necessary CI/CD pipelines.
* Improve deployment approval processes to allow automated testing and deployments to testing, pre-production and production environments; create and help improve these environments.
* Partner with Engineering teams to review quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful risk assessment and feedback.
* Ensure detailed reporting to assess product quality to project stakeholders and track QA metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
About You
* Experience with App Test Automation is a plus (XCUI framework).
* Experience with RESTful APIs and asynchronous communication (AMQP, RabbitMQ), preferably in a microservices environment.
* Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions, and integrating automated testing in the pipeline is a plus.
* Good understanding and experience with cloud and containerization principles is a plus (Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform).
* Strong analytical skills to troubleshoot problems and identify improvements; experience with logging and monitoring tools (Splunk, Loggly, SignalFX, New Relic, Datadog).
Benefits and Workplace
* Generous Paid Time Off and family leave benefits.
* Universal Paid Parental Leave and flexible return-to-work options.
* Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service.
* Competitive Stakeholder Pension and comprehensive health, dental care for employees and dependents from day 1.
* Company-wide events and hybrid work options.
* Hybrid work: this is a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland office 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.
This role requires an in-office presence in our Galway office, a minimum of 2 days a week. Can you meet this requirement?
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