Principal QA Engineer - PIMS Vendor Master at Publix Super Markets, Inc. in Lakeland, Florida

Job Description:

Publix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest privately-owned food retailer in the nation with more than 1,200 stores and more than 200,000 associates throughout the Southeast. We are associate-owned, proud of our family atmosphere, and consistently named as one of the best companies to work for in America. We are largely debt-free and renowned for our financial performance as well as our premier customer service. Publix’s Information Services (I/S) department is located in Lakeland, Florida and Alpharetta, Georgia and employs over 1000 associates. I/S provides the information technology required for all Publix business units including retail stores and all office and warehouse environments. The Publix I/S mission is to maximize the value of information technology to Publix associates and customers.

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 cutting-edge, 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’re 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 SAP Finance team! As a Principal QA Engineer, you will be responsible for coordinating all the testing efforts for new solutions and enhancements made to our SAP Finance application. You will use your QA experience to play a key role interacting with our development team and guiding the testing teams to develop and execute all testing required for new software solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the development team to determine test efforts for backlog items.


• Develop testing standards, define strategy, and continuously evaluate testing to optimize efforts.


• Lead other QA Engineers with their testing tasks for developed solutions.


• Create test plans, schedules, lab setup, and other testing deliverables.


• Build test data as necessary in preparation for solution testing.


• Perform execution of single or multiple endpoint test scripts


• Manage test cases within SAP Solution Manager

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other analytical discipline or equivalent experience


• 6+ years' experience testing and quality assurance experience.


• 4+ years’ experience with software test management tools such as HP Quality Center or Microsoft DevOps


• 2+ years’ experience with testing of SAP Finance applications (i.e. AP, AR, RE)


• Ability to identify testing scope from requirement documents and create appropriate test assets.


• Ability to assess the level of automation versus manual testing needed.

• 7+ years’ experience conducting software quality assurance for enterprise applications.


• 6+ years’ experience with test management in SAP Solution Manager


• 4+ years’ experience with testing of SAP Finance applications (i.e. AP, AR, RE)


• Experience with API testing tools (i.e., Postman, SoapUI, etc.)


• Experience working on teams that use the SCRUM framework or Agile methodology.


• Experience defining solution quality assurance processes and testing strategies including test automation.

• 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


• Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits - Jobs (publix.com)