Principal QA Engineer - Real Estate and Facilities

Publix Super Markets, Inc. is the largest privately-owned food retailer in the nation with more than 1,200 stores and more than 200,000 associates throughout the Southeast. We are associate-owned, proud of our family atmosphere, and consistently named as one of the best companies to work for in America. We are largely debt-free and renowned for our financial performance as well as our premier customer service. Publix?s Information Services (I/S) department is located in Lakeland, Florida and Alpharetta, Georgia and employs over 1000 associates. I/S provides the information technology required for all Publix business units including retail stores and all office and warehouse environments. The Publix I/S mission is to maximize the value of information technology to Publix associates and customers. _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.

Join the Publix Technology Team as a Principal QA Engineer where you will be responsible leading efforts to test and support enterprise-level applications. In this role, you will be responsible for quality assurance for a new vendor product.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead team of QA analysts consisting of automation testers and manual testers

• Create comprehensive test plans for new and existing systems with input from the scrum team and product owner.

• Participate in requirements, design, and product backlog refinement meetings to establish test effort estimates.

• Analyze project documentation, release notes, and other documentation to identify test scenarios and create test cases.

• Work with scrum teams to create and validate acceptance criteria for product backlog items.

• Build and execute test cases, test sets, and test scripts within Microsoft Azure DevOps.

• Design, build, and execute automated tests using various test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium.

• Coordinate cross team testing efforts.

• Oversee test execution and results validation on projects.

• Ensure all quality assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the life cycle and that the results from these activities are verified and documented.

• Perform testing and data validation utilizing SQL queries.

• Mentor/train other quality assurance engineers on the team.

• Bachelor?s degree in computer sciences or other analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years? experience performing Quality Assurance software testing.

• 5+ years? experience designing, developing, and executing test cases for large enterprise solutions.

• 4+ years? experience with creating and executing complex SQL queries to support test activities.

• 4+ years of experience using web-based development tracking tool for all testing related activities and reporting, such as Azure DevOps or JIRA

• 4+ years of experience testing APIs using Swagger, Postman, and web-based front ends.

• 4+ years of experience coding in object-oriented programming languages such as Java or C#

• 6+ years of experience leading team of QA engineers to plan, develop, and execute tests for large enterprise solutions.

• 6+ years? experience conducting software quality assurance for enterprise applications.

• 5+ years? experience in Scrum/Agile

• 5+ years? experience developing, testing, and executing automated test cases using an automated testing framework.

• Experience with automation testing using Visual Studio, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, C#, RestSharp, SpecFlow

• Experience in developing and maintaining code-based automation test frameworks.

• Platform, backend, and frontend process validations

• REST/SOAP/JSON API validations.

• Complex ETL, data, event, consumer, and processor validations.

• Integrating test automation solutions using CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with performance testing for API, backend, and UI.

• Advanced knowledge of Azure DevOps, Azure Test Plan, and CI/CD pipelines (YAML).

• Expert level SQL query skills to write and execute queries to review/validate test results.

• Continued education and certifications in testing and various technical disciplines.

• 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

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