Lead/Senior Full Stack UI & API Automation QA Engineer - Kroger - Sharonville, OH
Kroger
Job Description
This role is a Lead/Senior Full Stack UI & API Automation QA Engineer and is on the QA CoE Team and is crucial for advancing QA automation and quality strategy, offering leadership and technical expertise in UI and API testing. The QA Automation Engineer will design scalable automation frameworks using modern and AI-driven solutions, mentor team members, and integrate quality into CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments. Responsibilities include leading proof-of-concept projects, promoting best practices, and enhancing automated testing as a code-focused, DevOps-integrated professional.
The position collaborates with Engineering, Product, DevOps, AI, and Security teams to ensure applications are reliable, scalable, and production ready.
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
- 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 lev