Senior Automation QA Engineer - AI-Driven Retail

Publix; Lakeland (FL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job description

Publix Super Markets, Inc., the largest employee-owned company in the U.S., is driven by a dynamic technology team of 2,300+ professionals delivering innovative solutions to 1,400+ stores and 200,000+ associates across 8 states.

From IT security and platform engineering to architecture, software development, and infrastructure, we offer career opportunities at every level—internships through technical leadership.

Join a company consistently ranked among Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and help us build more than great subs—build the future of technology at Publix.

Join the Retail Fresh Delivery team as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer where you willbe responsible forplanning testing efforts and executing on small to large enterprise level applications by translating functional requirements, project documentation, release notes into test requirements and scenarios.Additionalresponsibilities include developing and executing automated and manual test cases for regression, load, and performance testing, and coordinating with development teams for creating comprehensive test plans and execution.

Location: Flexible Hybrid (Lakeland, FL)
Work Model: Enjoy the best of both worlds—collaborate in person and innovate remotely.

Why Join Us?

• Hybrid Flexibility: Work remotely when you needtofocustime and join us onsite for high-impact collaboration and brainstorming sessions.
• Operational Efficiency: Ensure technology solutions support efficient workflows and enable automation to improve operational effectiveness.
• Cutting-EdgeAI Projects: Drive innovation in AI platforms, integrating advanced tools and frameworks to solve complex business challenges.
• Empowered Culture: We value autonomy, creativity, and continuous learning—your ideas shape the future of technology in our organization.

Your Impact:

• Derive test strategies and test plans to effectively test the solution
• Provide testing leadership to the project teams to execute the test plan
• Developing and executing automated and manual test cases
• Analyzing results and reporting defects
• Integration, system, user acceptance, regression, load, and performance testing
• Coordinating with development teams to plan testing efforts and oversee testing execution on small to large enterprise level applications by translating functional requirements, project documentation,User story acceptance criteriaand release notes into test requirements and scenarios

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• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience
• 4+ years of experience with automation tools such as Playwright or Selenium to create and execute test cases, track defects, and perform requirements of coverage.
• 2+years designing automation test strategies and frameworks withindustry standard programminglanguagesand frameworkssuch as Java, C#, Python, Typescript, or .NET
• 2+ years of experience in writing SQL queries on RDBMS platforms like SQL Server, etc.
• 2+ years of experience testing APIs, batch jobs, web-based and mobile front ends.
• 2+ years of experience developing andmaintainingautomated testsusing UI and/or API based test frameworks, development environments, and CI/CD tools.
• 2+ years of experiencetesting Microsoft Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Azure Data Lake

• Experience inleading a team of SQA Analysts to plan, develop and execute testing to help deliver large enterprise solutions.
• 3-4 years of experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience with Test automation framework, such as:
• Selenium / Appium
• Postman/ Newman
• Gherkin / SpecFlow or Cucumber
• RestSharp
• Experience with Quality Center and Microsoft Test Manager