Adv. Quality Engineer (Finance)

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or foreign educational equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related STEM field or equivalent based on combination of education and/or experience.

In addition to degree (or degree equivalent), must have:

• At least 8 years of experience in a QA and software testing position;
• 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;
• Any amount of experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Any experience may have been gained concurrently.

• 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.