Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - SharePoint

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?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 Publix team as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer responsible for creating testing efforts for SharePoint solutions for an internal associate portal within the Publix Technology department. The ideal candidate will be experienced QA for a scrum team, working with developers, requirements analysts, cross-functional teams, and QA testers, coordinating the testing work among them.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the software and product testing efforts for the Corporate Systems Team
• Mentor/train other quality engineers on the team
• Work with project teams to understand system requirements and specifications of SharePoint applications making sure they match the acceptance criteria.
• Must work well within the team and be flexible with assignments, coordinate cross team testing efforts.
• Participate in requirements and design meetings to establish test effort estimates and develop testing strategies.
• Create comprehensive test plans with input from various project team members like product owner, analysts, and development team.
• Analyze and translate project documentation, release notes and other documentation into test scenarios.
• Capture the design of test cases and test procedures in Azure DevOps
• Build test cases, test sets and test scripts for backend and UI validations within a web-based development tool like Visual studio code.
• Design, build and execute automated tests using various test automation frameworks.
• Oversee and execute test scripts and results validation on projects.
• Ensure all Quality Assurance and testing activities are conducted throughout the lifecycle and that the results from these activities are verified.
• Facilitate defects tracking, problem determination and resolution throughout the life cycle.
• Perform hands on testing utilizing a lab of retail handheld devices and maintain those devices.
• Work in an agile environment that releases code to production on a regular and rapid basis.

• Bachelor?s degree in computer sciences or a related analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of software application development life cycle environment that includes test analysis, test execution planning, test case development, testing and quality assurance experience.
• 4+ years of experience creating manual test strategies and general experience writing test scripts.
• 4+ years of experience using a web-based development tracking tool for managing identified bugs and defects, such as Quality Center, JIRA, or Azure DevOps
• 4+ years of experience leading QA to help deliver large enterprise solutions.
• 1+ years of experience in writing SQL queries and performing database validations and manipulation.
• 3+ years of experience testing APIs using Swagger or Postman, batch jobs, and web-based front ends.

• Experience leading a team of SQA analysts to plan, develop and execute testing.
• Experience with ADA compliance tools for testing
• Experience performing metric analysis and developing metric reports for assigned projects; presents project metrics information to management on project defects.
• An aptitude to understand application design models, programming languages, and software testing concepts and an interest in learning about software development and testing environments.
• Experience with automation testing from scratch based on application requirements using Visual Studio, C#, Selenium, SpecFlow, BDD, Playwright
• Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps and Azure Test Plan
• Experience in testing a content management system or intranet portal like SharePoint.
• Good hands-on experience with automation testing using Selenium, C# .NET.
• Experience in using .NET Test automation Frameworks like Nunit, xUnit.
• Experience in developing and maintaining code-based automation test frameworks for

• platform and backend process validations
• Extensive experience in automated testing of REST/SOAP/JSON API
• Experience in automating complex ETL, Data, Event and Message Processor validations.
• Experience automating test validations in Microsoft Azure Cloud environment.
• Experience in integrating test automation code with Azure CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with mobile device testing

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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