Principal Quality Assurance Engineer - Jacksonville Central Fill at Publix Super Markets, Inc. in St. Johns, 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 a minimum of 8 days per month on-site in Jacksonville, 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 Pharmacy Central Fill team! As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the quality assurance team for our Jacksonville Central Fill team, working with software developers, solution vendors, and other QA team members ensuring that all robotics and prescription automation requirements are met for the facility.

Responsibilities:

• Define the quality assurance processes and testing strategies for assigned products.


• Perform test leadership activities on large and complex projects with minimal guidance.


• Work collaboratively with the team to determine test efforts for initiatives.


• Work directly with an automation solution in a lab environment


• Define the processes and procedures for conducting testing efforts within an automation lab.


• Participate in requirements and design meetings to establish test effort estimate.


• Translate requirements, release notes, and other documentation into test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.


• Facilitate defect meetings with the project team and vendors, including creating defect reports and updating defect details.


• Manage test cases within Quality Center and Microsoft DevOps


• Build test data as necessary in preparation for manual tests.


• Perform testing and data validation utilizing SQL queries.


• Participate in load and performance test efforts.


• Present testing outcomes for review for go/no-go decisions.


• Ability to travel to Lakeland, FL will be required as needed up to 10% of the time.

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


• 6+ years’ software testing Quality Assurance experience in an enterprise environment.


• 6+ years’ experience designing, developing, and executing test cases.


• 6+ years’ experience with test case development tools.


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


• Ability to travel to Lakeland, FL will be required as needed up to 10% of the time.

• 7+ years’ experience conducting software quality assurance for enterprise applications.


• 7+ years’ experience with Oracle or SQL databases.


• 2+ years with HP ALM (Quality Center) or other test case management tool.


• Experience working in both Agile and Kanban methodologies.


• Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps.

• 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)