WILLIAMS-SONOMA INDIA 
JOB DESCRIPTION 

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Work Location :  Pune, India 

Job Title :  QE – Lead Quality Engineer 

Business Unit :  WSI Corporate Technology, Pune 

 
About the Role 

At Williams-Sonoma we build some of the retail industry’s leading e-commerce platforms across multiple iconic brands. Engineers at WSI work full-stack, delivering exceptional customer experiences while building enterprise-grade services that power personalization, order management, and large-scale digital commerce. 

 
Responsibilities 

• Work closely with your Scrum team to improve the quality of features delivered through robust automated testing 

• Design, code, and maintain effective automated test suites aligned with feature development 

• Collaborate with engineers to ensure features are designed to support testability 

• Analyze functional and technical designs to create test cases that reveal code deficiencies 

• Review peer engineering work to ensure high quality, consistency, and adherence to standards 

• Provide leadership within the Quality Engineering Guild by sharing knowledge and best practices 

• Support test data management and test automation initiatives 

• Evaluate, prototype, and help select testing tools, frameworks, and processes 

• Implement approaches to significantly reduce regression cycle times 

• Actively participate in Scrum ceremonies including planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives 

• Champion functional test automation and drive adoption of cutting-edge practices 

• Serve as technical owner of WSI’s test automation framework 

• Identify opportunities to execute test automation closer to feature development 

• Improve automation suite effectiveness and execution performance 

 
Qualifications 

• Demonstrated programming and automation engineering capability 

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering or Quality Analysis roles 

• Strong understanding of software development best practices 

• Expertise in quality engineering methodologies, tools, and standards 

• Deep knowledge of test automation design patterns such as Page Object Model 

• Ability to review, understand, and contribute to technical designs 

• Strong written and verbal communication of testing strategies 

• Proven passion for continuous improvement and engineering excellence 

• Advanced experience with Selenium + Java, WebDriver, Playwright + JavaScript, JUnit, or TestNG 

• Experience testing large, heterogeneous systems end-to-end 

• Knowledge of test reporting and management tools such as Allure and TestRail 

• Experience building and maintaining UI, API, and end-to-end automation frameworks 

• Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases 

• Hands-on experience with Git, GitHub, and collaborative development workflows 

 
About Us 

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Today, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is one of the United States' largest e-commerce retailers with some of the most recognized and loved brands in home furnishings, including Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teens, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, GreenRow, and Mark and Graham. We operate retail stores globally and serve customers through our stores, catalogs, and online platforms worldwide. 

Williams-Sonoma has established a technology center in Pune, India to strengthen its global technology capabilities. The India Technology Center drives innovation across e-commerce, supply chain, and customer experience platforms by leveraging advanced technologies such as AI, data analytics, and machine learning, playing a key role in the company’s continued global growth and competitive leadership.