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 Quality Assurance Engineer at Publix Technology is responsible for ensuring the quality of software products within a complex enterprise environment. This role involves developing automated test scripts, maintaining automation frameworks, conducting manual testing, tracking defects, and mentoring junior quality assurance associates. The position requires a strong analytical mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement in quality assurance practices.

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

• 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.