Sr Quality Assurance Engineer - Finance Systems (Hybrid)
About The Position
Publix is hiring a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer for its Vendor Funding Accounting team within the Finance Systems organization. The role leads quality efforts for a multi-year enterprise platform replacing a critical legacy finance solution, supporting vendor funding and accounting processes across Publix. The engineer partners with software engineers, business analysts, product owners, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver a high-quality, scalable, reliable solution. This senior-level position leads testing across multiple workstreams, establishes automation standards, mentors other QA resources, influences project direction, and communicates quality risks, testing progress, and release readiness. The work is hybrid in Lakeland, Florida; candidates must live within commuting distance or be willing to relocate. At least one onsite interview is required for candidates who advance. The role defines testing strategy, plans, data requirements, and quality metrics; develops scalable automated testing with Playwright and Python or C#; and establishes frameworks, standards, and CI/CD testing practices. It also uses AI-assisted engineering and testing tools, validates financial calculations and data, analyzes large data sets with SQL, manages test plans in Azure DevOps, and drives continuous improvement in testing and product quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related analytical field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 4 years of software testing and quality assurance experience.
- At least 3 years developing and executing automated testing solutions for front-end, back-end, and APIs.
- At least 3 years using SQL to create and execute complex queries for test validation and data analysis.
- At least 2 years creating test strategies, test plans, and automation approaches for enterprise applications.
- At least 2 years of hands-on test automation experience using Playwright or other test automation tools.
- At least 1 year providing technical leadership to Quality Assurance Engineers, including mentoring, test strategy development, and establishing testing best practices.
- Experience testing APIs, integrations, ETL processes, and data-intensive applications.
- Experience working with Azure DevOps for test management, defect tracking, and release support.
- Experience leading testing on complex projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience working in Agile product teams and supporting continuous delivery environments.
Nice To Haves
- Experience testing financial, accounting, ERP, or enterprise business applications.
- Experience validating financial calculations, ledger postings, accruals, rebates, incentives, or settlement processes.
- Experience testing container-based applications.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience testing microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or large-scale data platforms.
- Experience implementing test automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Experience performing data reconciliation testing between legacy and modernized platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead quality assurance activities across the vendor funding product portfolio and modernization roadmap.
- Define test strategies, test plans, test data requirements, and quality metrics for complex initiatives.
- Design and implement scalable automated testing solutions using Playwright with Python or C#.
- Establish and maintain automation standards, frameworks, and CI/CD testing practices.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering and testing tools for test design, automation development, defect analysis, and quality validation.
- Evaluate and promote AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve coverage, delivery velocity, and product quality.
- Drive functional, integration, regression, API, data validation, and end-to-end testing.
- Validate financial calculations, accounting processes, data transformations, and reporting accuracy.
- Use SQL to analyze and validate large data sets across systems and environments.
- Partner with developers and business analysts to identify testing risks, gaps, and dependencies early in the delivery lifecycle.
- Facilitate defect triage, root cause analysis, and release readiness reviews.
- Mentor and provide technical leadership to other Quality Assurance Engineers.
- Develop and communicate quality metrics, test coverage metrics, defect trends, and release recommendations to project leadership.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts in testing practices, automation capabilities, and overall product quality.
- Create and manage test plans using Azure DevOps.
Benefits
- Year-end bonus equivalent to one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year), subject to remaining employed through the bonus check issue date.
- Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost.
- Opportunity to purchase additional shares of Publix’s 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.
- Hybrid work flexibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
