QA Automation Engineer - POS & In-Store Cust Facing Testing; Hybrid

QA Automation Engineer - POS & In-Store Cust Facing Testing (Hybrid) | Publix Super Markets, Inc.

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 260,000+ 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 n the POS & In-store Customer Solutions team.

As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will work on moderately complex projects, cross-platform efforts with varying technology solutions (infrastructure, software, middleware, etc.). This candidate will work closely with the project team to ensure quality assurance activities are planned, executed, and the results are reported. In addition, the position will be responsible for the creation of automated test cases using Playwright with Typescript or C#.

Location:

Hybrid (Lakeland, FL):
To support our hybrid work model, candidates must reside, or be willing to relocate, within a commutable distance of Lakeland, FL. Work Model:
Enjoy the best of both worlds - collaborate in person and innovate remotely. Interview Process:
Candidates selected to advance in the interview process will be required to participate in at least one onsite interview at our Lakeland, FL campus.

Why Join Us?

• Hybrid Flexibility:
  Work remotely when you need focus time 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-Edge AI 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

• Design manual and automated test cases from user stories
• Develop test scripts that ensure quality and functionality requirements are met
• Build and enhance automated tests for CI/CD pipelines and new features
• Execute manual and automated testing to support successful releases
• Collaborate on code reviews, troubleshooting, and continuous quality improvements
• Validate results, track defects, and perform feature and regression testing
• Partner with development teams to identify, investigate, and resolve issues
• Communicate testing progress, quality metrics, and release readiness

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years using SQL query skills to write and execute queries to review/validate test results
• 2+ years of experience working in a software application development life cycle environment
• 2+ years of creating automation test strategies and hands-on experience writing automation scripts using Playwright with Typescript or C#
• 2+ years of experience working in a Windows environment to test applications, and interfaces
• 1+ years of experience in using tools like Visual Studio IDE, VSCode
• 1+ years of experience writing and executing manual and automated test cases for feature sets on various applications including websites and mobile apps using Azure Dev Ops
• 1+ years of experience with backend ETL (extract, transform, load) test automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to use tracking tools for managing identified bugs and defects like Azure Dev Ops
• Experience  test automation frameworks like NUnit
• Experience in manual and automated testing of REST/SOAP/JSON API using Postman, SoapUI, and Rest API automation libraries
• Experience in using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops Test plans, Repos, and Pipelines and integrating test automation frameworks into CI/CD pipeline
• Experience in Azure Databricks test automation using C#, NUnit, and Notebooks
• Experience in using Dev Ops tools like Docker, GIT, Jenkins, and developing test…