Lead Web Automation Quality Engineer

Job description:

This role is for a Lead Web Automation Quality Engineer for the FrontEnd Personalization team. The goal of this initiative is to provide customers with meaningful and relevant experiences when using the Kroger app and shopping in stores. The back end team would look into a customers account and pull up UPCs of frequently purchased items while the front end team would manage what items are recommended and displayed when a customer goes to start their cart in the app.

5 years experience of quality assurance and testing as well as developing automation frameworks and automated tests.

Strong experience of Web automation testing Playwright/WDIO and JavaScript/TypeScript

3 years of experience in an automation and SOA QE leadership capacity. The actual QA experience should be more than 3 years. Drive the team more than just deliver against their own specific task. Should have lead experience.

Strong experience of SOA Testing concepts API testing Integration tests and Contract tests.

Experience with SOA automation tools like Postman is desired.

Strong knowledge of QA concepts Reporting Metrics Test case management Defect Management.

Strong technical expertise and indepth knowledge of multiple lines of business

Understanding of risk assessment and risk management procedures.

Ability to apply knowledge of project methodology and business processes to test processes.

Strong knowledge of programming/scripting languages.

Proven analytical skills rootcause analysis skills problemsolving skills and decisionmaking skills

Proven communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to customers and to all levels of the organization.

Ability to travel independently as required.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible execution of test strategies as part of an Agile scrum team

Drive adoption of test practices in code health testing and maintainability

Actively stays current with industry trends by attending conferences and workshop evaluate and leads POCs and rollout of new technologies.

Creates maintains and communicates technical roadmaps with stakeholders and drive implementation.

Foster innovation through ability to evaluate and create inhouse tools.

Responsible for critical initiatives on testing strategies and effectively communicating updates to senior management

Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and tool upgrades and collaborating with external vendors.

Drives quality initiatives test automation strategy and testing efforts for large complex projects and programs

Assesses quality risks of complex solutions / programs and builds appropriate test strategy to mitigate those risks

Collaborates with technical teams to providing input to and gaining buyin on the overall quality strategy for the project/program

Partners with third party vendors on common processes conducts frequent reviews and provides feedback on third party deliverables and overall team dynamics

Develops or oversees the development of test activities estimates resource plans costs benefits and timelines for the program

Mentors team members and educates program teams on Quality Engineer best practices and share lessons learned.

Advocate for shiftleft approach to testing and be the voice of quality

Conduct tests document and analyze test results and present findings to development teams as needed.

Provide guidance for test execution to resource temporarily assigned to help in test effort.

Report and document defects found during test cycles. Participate in defect prioritization sessions and root cause analysis.

Participate in technical learning and code reviews.

Interact with project architects where needed.

Provide information for quality metrics.

Provide test services for support activity and work with release management to assure product release quality.

Communicate timely status including any potential risks/issues to the appropriate teams to ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule budget and quality constraints.