Sr Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Publix - Lakeland, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Lakeland, FL

1,001-5,000 employees

Food and Beverage Retailers

About the position

Welcome to Publix Technology, the award-winning technical group for Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the nation. Our technology teams of over 2100 associates provide innovative, modern solutions to nearly 1400 retail stores and 200,000+ internal team members across 8 states. We offer positions at all levels - summer internships, individual contributor roles, to technical leadership across a broad range of technical disciplines. So, whether you are interested in IT security, platform engineering, architecture, software development, or infrastructure - we have a career path for you! See for yourself why Publix Super Markets, Inc. is a constant on Fortune Magazine's Best Companies to Work list. In this hybrid position, requiring 8 days per month on-site in Lakeland, FL, you will join the modernization team as a Senior Automation QA. In this role, you will be responsible for cross-functional team building and will create automation test scripts as well as comprehensive test plans for new and existing systems. Your contributions will ensure that all quality assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the life cycle and that the results from these activities are verified, ultimately enhancing the quality of our software products.

Responsibilities

• Participate in requirements, design, and product backlog refinement meetings to establish test effort estimates.
• Analyze project documentation, release notes, and other documentation to identify test scenarios and create test cases.
• Work with scrum teams to create and validate acceptance criteria for product backlog items.
• Build and execute test cases, test sets, and test scripts within Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Design, build, and execute automated tests using various test automation frameworks.
• Coordinate cross team testing efforts.
• Oversee test execution and results validation on projects.
• Ensure all quality assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the life cycle and that the results from these activities are verified.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other analytical disciplines, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years' creating automation test strategies and general experience writing automation scripts using industry standard programming languages.
• 4+ years' experience working in an agile environment.
• 2+ years' experience designing and developing test automation using tools such as Selenium/Playwright using C#, RestSharp.
• 4+ years' experience using Automated SQL validation.
• 2+ years' experience with CI/CD pipelines, API automation testing, and Azure DevOps.

Nice-to-haves

• 6+ years' experience working in an agile environment.
• 4+ years' experience designing and developing test automation using tools such as Selenium/Playwright using C#, RestSharp, Typescript, UI automation testing.

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