Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer - Retail Fresh Maintenance (Information Technology)

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. See for yourself why Publix Super Markets, Inc. has been on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list.

Join the Retail Fresh System Maintenance team as a Senior QA Engineer responsible for planning and leading testing efforts. You will be collaborating with cross-functional team members to understand system requirements and specifications and create comprehensive testing plans for new and existing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in requirements, design, and product refinement meetings with project leads and product owner to establish testing scope and effort estimates.
• Analyze project documentation, release notes, and other documentation to identify test scenarios, create test cases and prepare comprehensive test plans.
• Work with project teams and product owner to create and validate acceptance criteria for items being tested.
• Build and execute robust test cases, test sets, and test scripts using industry standard testing tools.
• Coordinate cross-team testing efforts.
• Ensure all quality assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the life cycle and that the results from these activities are verified.
• Oversee and mentor associates on the testing processes, tools, and applications they will be testing. 
• Drive testing efforts including end-to-end data/metrics analysis and reporting.
• Manage defects from identification, to reporting, resolution, and retest.
• Prepare and present test plans, test summaries, defects to project teams, business customers, and Technology leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience conducting software quality assurance for enterprise applications and a thorough understanding of testing best practices.
• 4+ years of experience creating and executing test scripts.
• 3+ years of experience writing SQL queries and analyzing/reporting results.
• 1+ years of experience planning and leading testing teams and all aspects of testing and reporting efforts.

   

• 5+ years of experience with writing SQL queries to support test activities.
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile environment.
• Experience with retail systems and applications.
• Experience with:
  • Quality Center
  • Azure DevOps
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Excel

• 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)