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.