Principal QA Automation Engineer – POS

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 31089BR
Department: Publix Technology
Working Hours: Minimum 45 hours per week.
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Nov 26, 2024

$101 - 152k

Hybrid

Full Time - Regular

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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 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 the POS Anywhere team. As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, you’ll ensure high-quality technology solutions (infrastructure, software, middleware, etc.). On multiple large and complex projects and inter-related programs, the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for all project quality assurance activities, including developing automated test cases for user stories and code scripts using industry-standard programming languages. The Principal Quality Assurance Engineer defines quality assurance processes and testing strategies and mentors all levels of Quality Assurance Engineers as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Lead an existing team of manual and automation test engineers – enhancing the testing environment for our software engineers and test engineers.
• Mentor and develop the Quality Assurance team to drive testing efficiencies across the Publix POS Anywhere Application team.
• Create comprehensive manual and automated test scripts and test cases ensuring they meet business requirements specifications.
• Analyze enhancements and create new features on the Publix POS Anywhere Application, validate and code automation test scripts using Playright and C#
• Work with the scrum teams to understand feature user stories, understand impacts.
• Attend backlog refinements to provide estimates for script creation and updates.
• Write or update test cases based on changes coming in from user stories.
• Log defects and communicate with software engineers and manual testers on bug fixes.
• Learn business rules for the Publix.com POS Anywhere Application
• Analyze code regression test scripts for impacted areas.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience
• 3+ years of experience in creating automation test strategies and writing automation scripts using industry-standard programming languages.
• 3+ years of experience in developing testing software frameworks and test scripts using industry-standard programming languages such as C#, TypeScript (Angular or React)
• 3+ years of experience developing testing software Web API GET and POST calls using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, JMeter (or equivalent API Testing Tools)
• 3+ years in an Agile SCRUM Environment using DevOps or JIRA boards.
• Experience in writing and executing manual and automated test cases for feature sets on various applications, including websites and desktop or mobile apps, using Azure DevOps or Jira
• Experience with backend ETL (extract, transform, load) test automation.
• Experience using MS SQL (or SQLite/Oracle) and stored procedures (SPs) to ensure data-at-rest integrity.

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Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience
• 5+ years of experience in developing testing software frameworks and test scripts using industry-standard programming languages such as C#, TypeScript (Angular or React)
• 5+ years of experience developing testing software Web API GET and POST calls using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, JMeter (or equivalent API Testing Tools)
• 4+ years in an Agile SCRUM Environment using DevOps or JIRA boards.
• Proficient in executing manual and automated test cases, with experience in tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or MSTest

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

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Year End Bonus

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

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Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.

Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

***Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.***
Please note that Publix will not sponsor any hire for this position for an H-1B visa or permanent residence.

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