Principal Quality Assurance Engineer – Facilities and Real Estate

at  Publix

DESCRIPTION

Please note, this is a hybrid position requiring 8 days per month on-site in Lakeland, FL
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 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.
Join the Publix Technology Team as a Principal QA Engineer where you will be responsible leading efforts to test and support enterprise-level applications. In this role, you will be responsible for quality assurance for a new vendor product.

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of QA analysts consisting of automation testers and manual testers
• Create comprehensive test plans for new and existing systems with input from the scrum team and product owner.
• 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 such as Playwright, Selenium.
• 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 and documented.
• Perform testing and data validation utilizing SQL queries.
• Mentor/train other quality assurance engineers on the team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences or other analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years’ experience performing Quality Assurance software testing.
• 5+ years’ experience designing, developing, and executing test cases for large enterprise solutions.
• 4+ years’ experience with creating and executing complex SQL queries to support test activities.
• 4+ years of experience using web-based development tracking tool for all testing related activities and reporting, such as Azure DevOps or JIRA
• 4+ years of experience testing APIs using Swagger, Postman, and web-based front ends.
• 4+ years of experience coding in object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C#

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience leading team of QA engineers to plan, develop, and execute tests for large enterprise solutions.
• 6+ years’ experience conducting software quality assurance for enterprise applications.
• 5+ years’ experience in Scrum/Agile
• 5+ years’ experience developing, testing, and executing automated test cases using an automated testing framework.
• Experience with automation testing using Visual Studio, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, C#, RestSharp, SpecFlow
• 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.
• Continued education and certifications in testing and various technical disciplines.

• Lead team of QA analysts consisting of automation testers and manual testers
• Create comprehensive test plans for new and existing systems with input from the scrum team and product owner.
• 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 such as Playwright, Selenium.
• 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 and documented.
• Perform testing and data validation utilizing SQL queries.
• Mentor/train other quality assurance engineers on the team