Description 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. The Store Accounting team is seeking a highly analytical Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who will be responsible for coordinating all quality assurance activities within a complex enterprise environment, including developing, executing, and maintaining test automation, manual testing, defect tracking, reporting, and providing overall leadership for the QA team. Responsibilities: * Lead team of QA analysts consisting of automation testers and manual testers * Define and communicate testing plans, estimates, and risks to the product owner, dev lead, and/or manager. * Design, build, and execute automated tests using various test automation frameworks. * Participate in requirements analysis, design, and product backlog refinement meetings to establish test effort estimates. * Work with product owner, analysts, and development team to create and validate acceptance criteria for product backlog items. * Build and execute test cases, test sets, and test scripts within Microsoft Azure DevOps * Facilitate defect tracking, problem determination, and resolution throughout testing life cycle. * Ensure all quality assurance activities are conducted throughout the software development life cycle and confirm test results are properly verified and documented. * Mentor/train other quality assurance engineers on the team Additional Information Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours. Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email. Please note that Publix will not sponsor any hire for this position for an H-1B visa or permanent residence. * Relocation/Household Good Shipment Allowance will NOT be provided.* Required Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in computer sciences or a related analytical discipline, or equivalent experience * 4+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience including test analysis, test execution planning, test case development, defect tracking, and test results reporting. * 2+ years of experience leading team of QA engineers to plan, develop, and execute tests for large enterprise solutions. * 2+ years of experience developing automation test scripts for UI and backend applications, using industry standard object-oriented programming languages. * 2+ years of experience working in an agile environment that releases code to production on a regular and rapid interval. * 2+ years of experience using web-based development tracking tool for all testing related activities and reporting, such as Azure DevOps or JIRA * 2+ years of experience in writing complex SQL queries to perform database validations, manipulation, and analytical reporting. * 2+ years of experience testing APIs using Swagger, Postman, and web-based front ends. Preferred Qualifications * 6+ years of software testing and quality assurance experience * 6+ years of experience leading team of QA engineers to plan, develop, and execute tests for large enterprise solutions. * 4+ years of experience developing automation test scripts for UI and backend applications, using industry standard object-oriented programming languages. * Experience performing metric analysis, developing metric reports for assigned projects, and presenting project metrics information to management/stakeholders. * Experience with automation testing using Visual Studio, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, C#, RestSharp, SpecFlow, BDD * 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. * Experience testing financial systems. * Continued education and certifications in testing and various technical disciplines