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Principal Quality Assurance Engineer - IDM Publix Pro (Information Technology)



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 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 are interested in IT security, platform engineering, architecture, software development, or infrastructure - we have a career path for you! Pub Subs are not the only thing we build from scratch. See for yourself why Publix Super Markets, Inc. has been on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list.

Join Publix Technology as a Principal QA Engineer where you will plan, coordinate, and execute manual testing efforts on our internal item management applications and mobile applications. Analyze acceptance criteria and lead a team of QA engineers across mobile and backend functionality, coordinating with multiple teams for functional, regression, and automated testing.

Responsibilities
  • Define the quality assurance processes and testing strategies for assigned products.
  • Lead the software and product testing efforts for the IDM team with minimal guidance.
  • Work collaboratively with the team to determine test efforts for initiatives.
  • Participate in requirements and design meetings to establish test effort estimates and develop testing strategies.
  • Create comprehensive test plans with input from various project team members like product owner, analysts, and development team.
  • Analyze and translate project documentation, release notes and other documentation into test scenarios.
  • Manage test cases and test procedures in Azure DevOps.
  • Build test cases, test sets and test scripts for backend and UI validations within a web-based development tool like Visual studio code.
  • Design, build and execute automated tests using various test automation frameworks.
  • Oversee and execute test scripts and results validation on projects.
  • Build test data as necessary in preparation for manual tests.
  • Ensure all Quality Assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the lifecycle and that the results from these activities are verified.
  • Facilitate defect tracking, problem determination and resolution throughout the life cycle.
  • Present testing outcomes for review for go/no-go decisions.
  • Perform hands on testing utilizing a lab of retail handheld devices and maintain those devices.
  • Work in an agile environment that releases code to production on a regular and rapid basis.
 
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience software testing and quality assurance experience.
  • 4+ years of experience testing mobile applications on mobile devices, including iOS and Android.
  • 4+ years of experience testing complex ETL workflows.
  • 4+ years of experience using a web-based development tracking tool for managing tasks and bugs, such as Azure DevOps.
  • 4+ years of experience testing API's using Swagger or Postman, and web-based front ends.
  • 3+ years of experience in writing SQL queries and performing database validations and manipulation.
  • Experience in leading a team of QA engineers.
  • Experience working in both Agile and Kanban methodologies.
  • Experience in using .NET Test automation Frameworks like Nunit, xUnit, MSTest.
  • Experience in automated testing of REST/SOAP/JSON API.
  • Experience automating test validations in Microsoft Azure Cloud environment.
  • Experience in integrating test automation code with Azure CI/CD Pipelines.
  • 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)

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