Principal Quality Assurance Engineer – Corporate Systems

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 32174BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Feb 28, 2025

$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 Publix Technology Team as a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer where you will be responsible to plan, coordinate, and execute testing of applications that support our corporate business areas. In this role, you will analyze acceptance criteria and coordinate with multiple teams for functional, regression, and automated testing.

Responsibilities will include:

• Lead software and product testing initiatives for the Corporate Systems team with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate with the team to determine and establish quality assurance processes and testing strategies for designated products.
• Guide other Quality Assurance Engineers in implementing and executing testing best practices and mentor them in developing automated test scripts.
• Ensure all Quality Assurance and testing activities are performed throughout the project lifecycle and verify the results of these activities.
• Engage in requirements and design meetings to estimate testing efforts and formulate test plans.
• Develop detailed test plans by collaborating with project team members, including product owners, analysts, and the development team.
• Analyze and translate project documentation, release notes, and other documentation into comprehensive test scenarios.
• Develop test cases, test sets, and test scripts to validate business functionalities effectively.
• Manage test cases and procedures using Azure DevOps and other relevant tools.
• Design, develop, and execute automated tests utilizing various test automation frameworks.
• Create test data as needed to prepare for manual testing.
• Execute manual and automated test scripts and validate results for project accuracy.
• Facilitate defect tracking, problem identification, and resolution throughout the project lifecycle.
• Present testing results for review to support go/no-go decisions.
• Operate in an agile environment with frequent and rapid code releases to production.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, or a related analytical field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance in a Windows environment.
• 2+ years of experience using Azure DevOps for managing tasks and defects.
• 4+ years creating automation test strategies and general experience writing automation scripts using industry standard programming languages.
• 4+ years of experience developing testing software frameworks and developing test scripts using industry standard programming languages like Java, C#, Python.
• 4+ years of experience writing and executing manual and automated test cases for feature sets on various applications, including websites, using ALM, Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.
• 2+ years of experience performing as a “gate keeper” by providing test result summaries and recommendations to the project team to pass or fail a test cycle/release.
• 2+ years of experience mentoring and leading Quality Assurance Engineers on QA best practices and developing automated test cases.
• 2+ years of experience writing SQL queries and performing database validations and manipulation.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced in applying Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Skilled in automation testing using Selenium or Playwright for .NET.
• Experienced with .NET test automation frameworks such as NUnit and xUnit.
• Competent in both manual and automated testing of REST, SOAP, and JSON APIs using tools like Postman, SoapUI, and automation libraries such as Rest Assured and RestSharp.
• Familiar with development tools like Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse, and IntelliJ.
• Experienced in utilizing Microsoft Azure DevOps for Test Plans, Repos, and Pipelines, including the integration of test automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Adept at conducting performance testing for APIs, backend systems, and user interfaces.

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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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