Sr Quality Engineer

Title: Sr. Quality Engineer

Client: KROGER
Location: Cincinnati, OH/ Hybrid 3 days Onsite and 2 days Remote
Long term contract

Must Haves:
Selenium WebDriver
WebDriver IO
Java
STRONG communication & documentation experience

Nice to Have: Playwright, Puppeteer, and NPM

Own and be accountable for test strategy, test planning, and test execution within their product team.

• Responsible for design and execution of test strategies as part of an Agile scrum team.

• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on testability of functional requirements, product designs, and estimating/planning.

• Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with and influence others to improve the overall design.

• Translate user stories and requirements to test cases.

• Develop and support the testing of product features throughout the entire development cycle.

• Design and build advanced automated testing frameworks.

• Uncovering issues by debugging the application through logs, stack traces and test results and continuous monitoring of systems under test.

• Work closely with development teams to drive root cause analysis and feed that knowledge into automated quality processes effectively.

• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.

• Collaborate with engineers in other teams to keep current on the company's latest developments in automation, learn from them and share/propose ideas.

• Advocate for shift-left approach to testing and be the voice of quality.

• Research emerging test tools, trends and methodologies and enhance existing systems and processes.

• Creates and executes against test cases. Creating unit tests and automated acceptance tests.

• Create appropriate unit test coverage.

• Executes acceptance tests and maintains the test cases in a shared repository.

• Creates and executes testing automation.

• Adhere to Kroger standards regarding code quality and design.

• Participate in code reviews.

• Follows defined branching strategies.

• Responsible for smoke testing, functional testing (story/feature testing) using/enhancing existing automation framework/code, regression and integration testing of the application.

• Understands the business rules and ensuring they are being implemented as per the architecture.

• Provides input into Acceptance Criteria, described in section 6 herein.

• Work with various stakeholders on the root cause analysis.

• Oversee setup and administration of cloud-based applications and infrastructure.

• Monitor cloud systems operations to detect potential problems.

• Implement and manage automation tools to improve velocity and quality of development lifecycle.

• Provide technical direction, expertise, and guidance to team members.

• Collaborate with development teams to maximize efficiency and improve velocity.

• Deploy software solutions.