Lead Quality Engineer

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At US Foods®, innovation and technology is our superpower. By expanding our digital ecosystem and leading with a customer-first mindset, we’re delivering technology that empowers our customers and simplifies business. As we transform the digital landscape of the foodservice industry, we’re outpacing our competitors faster than ever before. ​

 We believe diversity is the cornerstone of creativity and innovation—and we foster an open, inclusive, flexible work environment that supports our transformation.Lead Quality Engineer, Pricing at US Foods will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and services within the pricing domain. This role will have deep product knowledge focused on defining, implementing, and promoting consistent test practices within the team. The individual will be responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of project / program-oriented test efforts. This individual will own all testing including integration, functional, performance, regression, automation and acceptance testing.
The Lead, Quality Engineer will establish and implement test management strategy, processes and methodologies for the project/program test community to ensure testing activities are delivered on time, adhere to high quality standards, and meet expectations. The individual will be responsible for establishing and managing key testing milestones and working with Test Leads to adjust project schedules and/or resources to meet the needs of customers. This role will coordinate communication with all areas of the enterprise that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the test effort being managed. Also assists Test Leads and/or Project/Program Manager(s) in identifying and prioritizing testing related risks and mitigation approaches to achieve the goals of the project.

The Lead, Quality Engineer has proven past success with the orchestration of people, processes, systems, and metrics to deliver quality, scalable software platforms and products.
The individual will own the delivery and integration of test automation tools and is focused on improving developer productivity, software quality, performance, and stability. This role will collaborate with SRE’s and product teams to review and refine application NFRs, SLAs, & KPIs to create acceptance criteria to measure, validate, and improve performance. This role will assist in driving to deliver high quality products through governing adherence to defined standards, execution excellence, identifying opportunities for improvement and coaching teams to realize them.

Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Lead Quality Engineer Pricing position is completely 100% remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories.  This position may have the potential to travel up to 20% dependent on business needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities and make decisions quickly to meet the demands of fast paced projects/programs.

• Demonstrated leadership skills with strong planning and organization.

• Knowledgeable about industry trends, QA best practices, and change management.

• Define test strategies focused on the overall quality of the product and speed of releases.

• Lead code reviews and defect remediation for code deployed into production.

• Identifying areas for the team to improve code coverage, reduce manual steps needed to validate data correctness and define acceptable quality levels.

• Leads QA resources to improving automation test frameworks.

• Develop test data strategy, automate test data generation, and validate data accuracy.

• Contribute to defining user stories, including detailed requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Responsible for the utilization of static code and dynamic code analysis to identify performance and maintenance concerns.

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

• Recommend improvements into overall best practices, design, testability and quality and productivity.

• Lead Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Automation Testing, Performance Testing and security testing, and identify gaps and opportunities to optimize performance and mitigate risks

• Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) and production readiness testing, analyzing results and providing actionable feedback for improvement.

RELATIONSHIPS

• Internal: Business Stakeholders and End Users, IT Leadership, IT Delivery (Sr. Product Owners, Product Owners/ Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Developers, Quality Engineers, Architects, Program Managers, etc.), cross-functional product/ application teams

• External: SaaS Vendors and Service Integrators (SI)

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of experience in quality engineering field, both manual and automations

• 5+ Years of experience leading QA team and handling test challenges at the team level, providing guidance, support and mentorship.

• Advanced knowledge of test engineering practices within an Agile SDLC methodology.

• Experience in organizational transformation, leading efforts to instill a culture of testing and automation.

• Track record of timely delivery of high-quality software.

• Excellent problem solving, issue identification and technical documentation skills.

• Practical knowledge of test automation tools for mobile, web, and service technologies.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of experience with UI & API test automation tools, particularly in Java / Python stack (Selenium etc.) is preferred

• 2+ years of experience with Continuous Testing frameworks (e.g., Bamboo, Git, Smartbear, Postman, Sonarqube, Selenium, Cucumber BDD) is preferred

• Experience in writing queries and knowledge in one or more DB technologies: SQL and No-SQL databases like SQL server, Snowflake, Mongo DB

• Experience with one or more Test Management tools like Testrail

• Experience working in a distributed team of onshore / offshore engineering resources.

• Experience defining high-level test automation strategy based on Continuous Testing best practices.

• Manages quality/test challenges at the team level, providing guidance, training, technical support and mentorship.

• Experience with SaaS/ vendor platforms is preferred.

• Have experience or familiarity with one or more of the following technologies: Python, Java, Node.js, Angular, SQL, Kafka, Containers, XCUITest, Selenium, Cucumber BDD, JUnit, Postman, Smartbear, Sonarqube.

• Passion for high-quality code, tests, CI/CD, documentation, and addressing recurring problems with software solutions.

• Familiarity with Agile development methodology and tools like JIRA

• Experience with Pricing and/or in the wholesale food distribution industries

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical degree or equivalent work experience required.

Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law.  The expected base rate for this role is between $85,000 - $140,000.

This role will also receive annual incentive plan bonus.

​Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.

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