Sr. Quality Assurance Automation Engineer – Store Accounting 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 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.

The Publix Technology Store Accounting team is seeking a highly analytical Sr. QA Engineer who will be responsible for all quality assurance activities, including developing and executing automation scripts, manual testing and providing leadership within the QA team.

 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Lead team of QA analysts consisting of automation testers and manual testers


• Define and communicate testing plans, estimates, and risks to the product owner, dev lead and/or manager


• Collaborate with product owner and team members to build an automation testing framework for UI and backend applications


• Participate in requirements analysis, design, and product backlog refinement meetings to establish test effort estimates


• 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


• Ensure all quality assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the life cycle and that the results from these activities are verified and documented

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or a related analytical field or equivalent experience


• 4+ years’ software testing and quality assurance experience


• 2+ years’ developing automation test scripts for UI and backend applications, using industry standard object-oriented programming languages


• 2+ years’ leading team of SQA analysts to plan, develop and execute testing to deliver large enterprise solutions


• 1+ years’ working in an agile environment


• 1+ years’ using Azure DevOps for all testing related activities and reporting


• 1+ years’ creating Test Plans, Test Schedules, and Test Summaries


• 2+ years SQL query skills with the ability to write and execute queries to review/validate test results

• 5+ years’ software testing and quality assurance experience


• 4+ years’ developing automation test scripts for UI and backend applications, using industry standard object-oriented programming languages


• 4+ years’ leading team of SQA analysts to plan, develop and execute testing to deliver large enterprise solutions


• 1+ years ‘performance testing on API, backend, and UI 


• 2+ years’ with automation testing technologies such as: Selenium, Cucumber, PowerShell, RestSharp, xUnit or nUnit, JMeter, Telerik.


• Continued education and certifications in testing and various technical disciplines

• 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)