Principal Quality Assurance Engineer – Publix Connection

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 30233BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Sep 04, 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 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.

As part of our corporate systems team, you will be responsible for manually testing SharePoint solutions for an internal associate portal within the Publix Technology department. The ideal candidate will be experienced QA for a scrum team, working with developers, requirements analysts, cross-functional teams, and QA testers, coordinating the testing work among them.

Responsibilities:

• Define the quality assurance processes and testing strategies for assigned products.
• Lead the software and product testing efforts for the Publix Connection 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 defects 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.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences or a related analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience in software application development life cycle environment that includes test analysis, test execution planning, test case development, testing and quality assurance experience.
• 6+ years of experience leading QA to help deliver large enterprise solutions.
• 6+ years of experience using a web-based development tracking tool for managing identified bugs and defects, such as Quality Center, JIRA, or Azure DevOps
• 4+ years of experience testing APIs using Swagger or Postman, batch jobs, and web-based front ends.
• 3+ years of experience in writing SQL queries and performing database validations and manipulation.
• 1+ year SharePoint quality assurance experience

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of SQA analysts to plan, develop and execute testing.
• Experience with ADA compliance tools for testing
• Experience performing metric analysis and developing metric reports for assigned projects; presents project metrics information to management on project defects.
• An aptitude to understand application design models, programming languages, and software testing concepts and an interest in learning about software development and testing environments.
• Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps and Azure Test Plan
• Experience working in both Agile and Kanban methodologies.
• Experience in testing a content management system or intranet portal like SharePoint.
• Good hands-on experience with automation testing using Selenium, C# .NET.
• Experience in using .NET Test automation Frameworks like Nunit, xUnit.
• Experience in developing and maintaining code-based automation test frameworks for
• Platform and backend process validations
• Extensive experience in automated testing of REST/SOAP/JSON API
• Experience in automating complex ETL, Data, Event and Message Processor validations.
• Experience automating test validations in Microsoft Azure Cloud environment.
• Experience in integrating test automation code with Azure CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with mobile device testing

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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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