Quality Assurance Engineer – Retail Fresh Maintenance

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 32162BR
Department: Publix Technology
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Mar 13, 2025

$73 - 110k

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 Retail/Fresh Maintenance team as a Quality Assurance Engineer where you will be responsible for:

• Coordination with technical leads, product owners, and business customers, translating functional and technical requirements, project documentation, and release notes into test requirements and scenarios.
• Overseeing and participating in development of test cases for enterprise level software applications and hardware, including for mobile devices, scales, desktops, servers, databases, and considering network/security components
• Planning, resourcing, overseeing, and participating in integration, system, certification, regression, load, and performance testing efforts for small to medium size/complexity enterprise level applications.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience
• 2+ years of experience with any testing tool to create and execute test cases, track defects, and perform requirements coverage.
• 2+ years of experience testing APIs, services, batch jobs, and web-based/mobile front ends on desktop, mobile, and backend platforms
• 2+ years of experience writing SQL queries on RDBMS platforms like SQL Server, etc. to prepare data for testing and validate data testing results.

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Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience testing using Microsoft Azure tools such as Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of test automation frameworks, such as:
  • Selenium / Appium
  • Postman / Newman
  • Gherkin / SpecFlow or Cucumber
  • RestSharp
• Experience with Quality Center and Microsoft Test Manager
• Experience with software and hardware applications used for retail store operations, including fresh department scales such as Bizerba and Mettler Toledo
• Experience with Western Union money transfer and money order solutions.

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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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