Advanced Quality Engineer - (Multiple positions available)

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.  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.  Automate workflows from ideation to operational tools. 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 for test planning, execution, and reporting.  Duties may be located at any Kroger Co. office throughout U.S.  Telecommuting from home office is authorized pursuant to company policy.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree (or foreign educational equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related STEM field plus at least 8 years of experience in QA and software testing (or a closely related occupation)

• OR, alternatively, a Master’s degree (or foreign educational equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related STEM field plus at least 6 years of experience in QA and software testing (or a closely related occupation)

Within this, must have experience in all of the following:

• 5+ years of experience in leading QA Process improvements;

• 5+ years of experience developing and executing automated test scripts and working with automated test frameworks and runners;

• 3+ years of experience with test case management and tools;

• 3+ years of experience utilizing risk-based testing techniques;

• 1+ year of experience using SQL or other query methods to validate changes in the database;

• 1+ year of experience mentoring and coaching others (remote & onsite);

• Any amount of experience with defect management and tools;

• Any amount of experience managing test environments and data;

• Any amount of experience with continuous integration tools; and

• Any amount of experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

• Any amount of experience may have been gained concurrently.

   

Desired Previous Job Experience:  N/A (See Minimum Position Qualifications)