QA Lead

Who we are:
You may not have heard of us, but you’ll know our brands! A.S. Watson is the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 16,300 stores in 28 markets. Each year, over 5.5 billion customers and members shop with our well-known retail brands, both online and offline, including the likes of Superdrug, Kruidvat, Watson’s, Marionnaud, The Perfume Shop, and many more.

Based in Milan, eLab Technology is ASW Group digital Polo. It takes care of Omnichannel Strategy for European Brands of the group, delivering e-commerce, Mobile and in store Innovative solutions.

The A.S. Watson Group eLab Technology department is looking for a passionate QA Lead to join the team in Milan. The QA Lead will be dedicated to software validation of the Hybris eCommerce platform on all the Group Business Units over Europe and responsible to assure a quality service to the client on test of new releases and fixes as part of the software development lifecycle.

A typical day in this role includes:
- Performs and lead release validation in test environment
- Prepare, review and executes Test Cases
- Able to estimate and plan test activities efforts
- Lead release validation in the integrated systems environment supporting the acceptance stage with our BUs
- Informs QA Manager about issues and priorities
- Provide input and assistance to development team to identify and resolve defects
- Identifies areas of test improvement through analysis, experience and use of metrics
- Produce reports on QA activities
- Responsible of test strategy definition
- Coordinate QA Teams
- Could be required to travel across Europe

This role would be a good fit for you if:
- You are endowed with very good written and verbal communications skills
- You are Proactive with a high attention to detail
- You can easily work in a team
- You are good at interpersonal relationship
- You get satisfaction though daily personal improvements

What you’ll need:
- Degree in Computer Science Engineering or another related field
- 3 year + of experience in retail or consulting company
- Knowledge of e-commerce, mobile, multichannel and/or digital application systems. Knowledge and experience on Hybris is an advantage
- Experience of manual/automated/API testing
- Fluent in Italian, English is a must, we are international!
- Proactive with a high attention to detail

What you’ll get from us:
- Competitive salary, benefits and bonus scheme
- Excellent refer-a-friend scheme with up to 3000 euros up for grabs!
- A fantastic learning and development offering to explore
- Ticket Lunch
- International and inclusive team based in Milan Fashion and design district
…plus much More!