Principal Quality Assurance Engineer - Facilities and Real Estate 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 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. 

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


• Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits - Jobs (publix.com)