Sr QA Automation Engineer Store Accounting Modernization

Publix - Lakeland, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Lakeland, FL

1,001-5,000 employees

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

The Senior QA Automation Engineer for Store Accounting Modernization at Publix Technology is responsible for ensuring the quality of software products through comprehensive testing strategies. This role involves developing automated test scripts, maintaining automation frameworks, and mentoring junior QA associates. The position requires a strong analytical mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement within a complex enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate testing plans, estimates, and risks to the product owner, dev lead, and/or manager.
• Design, build, and execute automated tests using various test automation frameworks.
• Ensure reliability and maintainability of automated tests and automation frameworks.
• Participate in requirements analysis, design, and product backlog refinement meetings to establish test effort estimates.
• Work with product owner, analysts, and development team to create and validate acceptance criteria for product backlog items.
• Build and execute test cases, test sets, and test scripts within Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Facilitate defect tracking, problem determination, and resolution throughout testing life cycle.
• Ensure all quality assurance activities are conducted throughout the software development life cycle and confirm test results are properly verified and documented.
• Mentor/train other quality assurance engineers on the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences or a related analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience including test analysis, test execution planning, test case development, defect tracking, and test results reporting for large enterprise solutions.
• 2+ years of experience developing automation test scripts for UI and backend applications, using industry standard object-oriented programming languages.
• 2+ years of experience working in an agile environment that releases code to production on a regular and rapid interval.
• 2+ years of experience using web-based development tracking tool for all testing related activities and reporting, such as Azure DevOps or JIRA.
• 2+ years of experience in writing complex SQL queries to perform database validations, manipulation, and analytical reporting.
• 2+ years of experience testing APIs using Swagger, Postman, and web-based front ends.
• 1+ years of experience with Playwright.

Nice-to-haves

• 6+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience including test analysis, test execution planning, test case development, defect tracking, and test results reporting for large enterprise solutions.
• 4+ years of experience developing automation test scripts for UI and backend applications, using industry standard object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience performing metric analysis, developing metric reports for assigned projects, and presenting project metrics information to management/stakeholders.
• Experience with automation testing using Visual Studio, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, C#, RestSharp, SpecFlow, BDD.
• Experience in developing and maintaining code-based automation test frameworks.
• Platform, backend, and frontend process validations.
• REST/SOAP/JSON API validations.
• Complex ETL, data, event, consumer, and processor validations.
• Integrating test automation solutions using CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with performance testing for API, backend, and UI.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure DevOps, Azure Test Plan, and CI/CD pipelines (YAML).
• Expert level SQL query skills to write and execute queries to review/validate test results.
• Experience testing financial systems.
• Continued education and certifications in testing and various technical disciplines.

Benefits

• Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
• An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Group health, dental and vision plans
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria