Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

The Technology Department has an opening for an Enterprise Certification Software QA Engineer. This position is located in Livermore, California.

Position Purpose

Albertsons Companies is looking for a dynamic Software QA Engineer who is technical and understands the big picture. You will be working with a variety of product and project teams that are involved in deploying infrastructure and application solutions to our retail stores. The primary focus of the team is to prevent any disruption to service within the retail environment. You will have an opportunity to work with a very wide variety of technology areas to validate that they can be safely deployed. You will have an opportunity to leverage and extend the use of robotic test automation. We expect you to take pride in your work and enjoy finding defects and isolate issues. You have an opportunity to collaborate with a large team that spans many physical locations, including both onshore and offshore. We expect you to have a passion for quality and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Responsible for evaluation of applications within retail environment through validation in our end-to-end enterprise certification test facilities
* Lead quality analysis and test plan validation across a wide variety of infrastructure and application domains
* Work closely with the stakeholders to understand goals, requirements and the architecture of their projects.
* Closely track the progress and results of the implementations within the Enterprise Certification facilities
* Follow testing standards and best practices.
* Provide guidance and recommendations for risk and mitigation plans for quality deliverables.
* Helps resolve issues/remove roadblocks for the product & project test teams and/or escalate accordingly.
* Provide regular quality status updates to stakeholders.
* Tracks test case execution status and manages defects within Jira.

Qualifications:

* 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience
* 4+ years of Retail / POS Systems testing experience is a MUST (Toshiba IBM 4690 experience preferred)
* Unix, MQ, web-based and Data migration testing experience is preferred.
* Mainframe and ETL testing experience are a PLUS.
* Experience with authoring and executing test plans and test cases.
* Understands and uses testing methodologies and processes.
* Experience with the full software development lifecycle and development methodologies (Waterfall and Agile)
* Experience with Jira for test case development/execution, and defect tracking
* Good organizational and troubleshooting skills with attention to detail.
* Passion for quality
* Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
* Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to learn beyond formal training and a strong aptitude for delivering quality.
* Experience effectively leveraging tools such as Jira and Eggplant Test Automation Software
* Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 suite of products

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

* Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
* Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
* May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
* Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
* Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
* Work day is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- some positions require applicants offered a position to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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