Quality Assurance Engineer - POS & In-store Customer Solutions 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 ro0les, to technical leadership across a broad range of technical disciplines. So, whether you’re interested in IT security, platform engineering, architecture, software development, or infrastructure – we have a career path for you! Pub Subs aren’t the only thing we build from scratch. See for yourself why Publix Super Markets, Inc. is a constant on Fortune Magazine’s Best Companies to Work list.

Join the POS & In-store Customer Solutions team. As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work on moderately complex projects, cross-platform efforts with varying technology solutions (infrastructure, software, middleware, etc.). This candidate will work closely with the project team to ensure quality assurance activities are planned, executed, and the results are reported. In addition, the position will be responsible for the creation of automated test cases using industry-standard programming languages.

Responsibilities:

• Design high-level manual and automated test cases based on user stories.


• Create manual and automated test scripts and test cases ensuring they meet testing specifications.


• Create and update automated test scripts to improve existing feature functionality and new feature development; determine automation candidates and code the automation scripts to be executed in a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CICD) pipeline.


• Execute or oversee the execution of moderately complex manual and automated tests.


• Collaborate with the automation team members on code reviews and issue debugging.


• Verify testing results and accurately track defects; perform feature and regression testing in Test, Staging, and Production lifecycle.


• Participate in defect tracking and problem-determination throughout the feature development lifecycle.


• Create and communicate effective test metrics and reports based on test execution.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience 


• 2+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience 


• 1+ years of creating automation test strategies and general experience writing automation scripts using industry-standard programming languages. 


• 2+ years of experience developing testing software frameworks and developing test scripts using industry-standard programming languages (C#, Typescript (Angular), Python, and Java)


• Experience working in a Windows environment to test applications, and interfaces. 


• Experience writing and executing manual and automated test cases for feature sets on various applications including websites and mobile apps using Azure DevOps, ALM, or Jira


• Experience with backend ETL (extract, transform, load) test automation.

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


• Ability to use tracking tools for managing identified bugs and defects like ALM, Azure DevOps 


• Experience with automation testing using Selenium, Playwright for .NET. 


• Experience in developing and using automated testing frameworks. 


• Experience with .NET test automation frameworks like NUnit, xUnit. 


• Experience in manual and automated testing of REST/SOAP/JSON API using Postman, SoapUI, and Rest API automation libraries like Rest Assured, Restsharp, etc. 


• Experience in using tools like Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc. 


• Experience in using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops Test plans, Repos, and Pipelines and integrating test automation frameworks into CI/CD pipeline. 


• Experience in Azure Databricks test automation using C#, NUnit, and Notebooks 


• Experience in using DevOps tools like Docker, GIT, Jenkins, and developing test automation frameworks for Azure cloud deployments. 

• 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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