What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Quality Engineer position at Kroger Technology & Digital?
This role will collaborate with and influence development teams to embed quality practices early in the development lifecycle, including providing guidance on unit testing, contract testing, and test-driven development approaches. The role focuses on preventing defects through improved code-level testing and testable architecture design, while maintaining broader responsibilities for organizational testing strategy and execution across all testing disciplines.
Lead and support quality assurance programs and processes in alignment with QA strategy and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment with minimal guidance. Responsible for providing feedback and coaching on artifacts developed during requirements and analysis phase within client projects; authoring test cases/scripts; and performing test execution. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
Responsibilities for Candidates
- Guide testing efforts involving coaching, mentoring, code reviews, and contributing to improvements to frameworks, tools, processes and best practices
- Provide oversight to ensure automation test suites are well maintained and operational
- Provide accurate estimates for QA efforts including test case design/scripting, test data management, execution and defect correction
- Understand Kroger's core quality metrics and how to utilize them to foster quality improvement
- Design, develop, analyze, document and support CoE activities that drive continuous improvement across the organization
- Manage quality assurance and testing projects, schedules, tasks and deliverables
- Communicate quality issues and recommendations to improve quality to senior level management
- Consult with technical development leads on feature designs to ensure product testability and identify coverage gaps in existing test tools or technologies
- Develop and maintain software quality dashboards aligned with committed software quality SLAs and KPIs
- Automate test cases and functional libraries using open source and commercial tools
- Lead and coach CI/CD and SDLC/TDLC concepts: code review best practices, code coverage analysis, continuous test and delivery
- Consult on automation tools/techniques, feasibility/implementation, process improvements and maintenance plans
- Drive creative and innovative technical concepts to automate workflows from ideation to operational tools, designed with the capability to be reusable, maintainable and efficient
- Support complex systems with significant integration points, external Third-Party systems through RESTful, and other protocol APIs and multi-step authorization factors
- Develop and/or recommend tools to assist test engineers in test planning, execution and reporting
- Exhibit strong stakeholder relationship, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Qualifications for Candidates
Minimum
- Any experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Any experience with continuous integration tools
- Any proven experience managing test environments and data
- Any proven experience with defect management and tools
- 1 year of experience using SQL or other query methods to validate data changes in the database
- 3 years of experience utilizing risk-based testing techniques
- 3 years of experience with test case management and tools
- 5 years of experience working with automated test frameworks and runners
- 5 years of experience developing and executing automated test scripts
- 5 years of experience leading QA Process improvements
- 8 years of experience in a QA and software testing position
- Experience mentoring and coaching others (remote & onsite)
Desired
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or related information technology field
- Any experience with creating and using test data management tools
- Any experience working in environments utilizing the OKR work process
- Any experience with automated testing in a cloud environment
- Familiarity with NoSQL Databases
- Strong understanding of modern testing architectures and approaches
- Experience with test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration
- Ability to make informed technical tradeoff decisions
- Experience with predictive quality metrics and dashboards
- Ability to derive strategic insights from quality data
- Background in setting up comprehensive quality measurement systems