Sr. Quality Assurance Automation Engineer – Publix.com at Publix Super Markets, Inc. in Lakeland, Florida

Job Description:

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 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. Come 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 Sr. Quality Assurance Automation Engineer for the Publix.com website team. You will join an existing team of manual and automation test engineers – enhancing the testing environment for our software engineers and test engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze enhancements and new features on the Publix website, validate and code automation test scripts using C# and Selenium WebDriver


• Work with the scrum teams to understand feature user stories, understand impact, and write Spec Flow user stories for the Automation backlog.


• Attend backlog refinements to provide estimates for script creation and updates.


• Review user story acceptance criteria and ask questions on what may be unclear or missed requirements - write or update test cases based on changes coming in from those stories.


• Review daily builds and execute automation tests on various browsers – log defects and communicate with software engineers and manual testers on bug fixes.


• Learn business rules for the Publix.com website's functional areas to analyze and code regression test scripts for impacted areas and support monthly production releases.


• Mentor and develop the Quality Assurance team to drive testing efficiencies across the Publix.com team – collaborate through code reviews and debugging sessions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related analytical field, or equivalent experience


• 4+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience


• 4+ years of experience working in a web application development environment.


• 4+ years of experience doing test analysis, execution planning, and test case development.


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


• 3+ years of experience in QA automation using Selenium WebDriver


• 1+ year of experience source control tools such as GIT, TFS


• 1+ year of experience writing test scripts using BDD (Behavior Driven Development) such as Cucumber/SpecFlow Gherkin


• 1+ year of experience using a web-based development tracking tool for managing identified bugs and defects, such as JIRA, Azure DevOps


• 1+ year of experience working on an Agile/Scrum development team

• Experience creating automated test scripts for RESTful APIs with Postman


• 3+ years of experience with a C# unit testing framework like NUnit, xUnit, and MSTest


• 3+ years of experience with open-source test tool like Jasmine for testing JavaScript, or similar test frameworks like Mocha, QUnit, Jest, or Unit.js


• Experience with Mobile site test automation on mobile devices


• Experience using Cross-Platform testing solutions (BrowserStack, SevTestLabs, CrossBrowserTesting.com etc.)

• 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 plan


• 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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