[Remote] Senior Software Engineer in Test (SET)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to own quality engineering for their Commerce product surface, executing structured manual QA while building automation infrastructure to enhance quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the quality gate for Commerce feature releases
- Write and execute test plans, run structured regression passes before releases, and document coverage gaps with enough fidelity that engineers can act on them immediately
- Build an E2E test suite covering key customer journeys across the storefront and brand portal, wired into CI so regressions are caught on every PR
- Make it easy for engineers to add coverage as a natural part of shipping
- Own the quality strategy for Stord's Shopify-embedded products: storefront app blocks, checkout extensions, onboarding flows, and the brand configuration interface
- Define the right mix of automated and manual coverage for a surface that spans multiple merchant themes and checkout environments
- Maintain a structured cross-theme QA playbook for compatibility scenarios that require human verification
- Define coverage matrices and quality gates tied to Commerce's product areas: Protect, Engage, Resolve, Unbox, and Renew
- Surface quality metrics to the team so regressions and gaps are visible before they reach production
- Participate in sprint planning and spec reviews to shift quality left
Skills
- Software Engineer in Test or quality engineering experience (4+ years) — You have worked as a dedicated SET or quality engineer in a production software environment, owning test strategy for a meaningful product surface rather than executing tests written by others. You have tested against real scale: multi-team codebases, high-release-cadence teams, or customer-facing surfaces where defects have measurable business impact
- TypeScript (4+ years) — You write real production TypeScript across test frameworks and CI tooling, not just configuration files. You can navigate a codebase you did not write
- E2E test automation — You have built and maintained Playwright or Cypress suites against real web applications in production CI. You know how to handle flakiness, authenticated flows, and rate-limited environments
- Manual QA methodology — You write test plans, execute structured regression passes, and file bugs with enough detail that engineers do not need to ask follow-up questions
- CI/CD integration — You have wired test suites into GitHub Actions or equivalent. You know when to block a PR versus report asynchronously
- API testing — You test at the API layer directly, not only through a UI, and understand request/response contracts and authentication flows
- Directed AI-Assisted Development — You use AI coding tools as a productivity multiplier while maintaining independent technical judgment. This is a hard requirement
- Ownership and Accountability — You own the quality outcomes for your product area, not just the tasks assigned to you. If something ships with a regression, you care personally and act to prevent the next one
- Strong Communication — You translate 'this is broken' into a bug report that gets fixed, and 'here is what I am building' into a test strategy a PM and an engineer both understand
- Production Mindset — You think about failure modes, edge cases, and the real end-customer experience. A feature is not tested because the happy path passed
- Learning Agility — The Shopify platform evolves fast. You stay current, update your approach when the tooling changes, and do not get attached to how things worked six months ago
- Familiarity with Shopify app development: theme app extensions, checkout extensions, Shopify Functions, or App Bridge
- Experience with visual regression tools (Percy, Chromatic, or equivalent)
- Commerce or ecommerce domain knowledge
- Experience establishing test infrastructure in a team without dedicated QA
- Python proficiency
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