Software Engineer II- Quality Engineering

Overview

H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation operating over 420 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $34 billion. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 145,000 Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.

Responsibilities

H-E-B Digital is seeking new Partners! H-E-B is not only a grocery retailer, but also a leading innovator in technology and this is an exciting time to join our team. We're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 120,000 Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers.

Since 2015 H-E-B Digital has been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, innovating our technology stack that supports our brick & mortar business and supply chain operations, reinventing how customers find inspiration from food, and how we ultimately help customers leverage amazing technology getting food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital, and we're hiring across the stack of our challenging distributed systems. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption-from manufacturing and supply chain, all the way to Curbside and Home Delivery-so you'll get the opportunity to help ensure a high-quality experience for our Partners and customers. If you're someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team.

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Quality Software Engineer II job, that means you have a…

HEART FOR PEOPLE… you have a passion for person-to-person interactions that build credibility on your promise to deliver, and you continuously adjust your approach to deliver a consistent message;

HEAD FOR BUSINESS… you are collaborative when faced with decisions, always evaluating the impact to make effective and timely choices;

PASSION FOR RESULTS… the willingness to take action and iterate through failure to achieve improved outcomes.

What you'll do at HEB:

We invest in improvements that ultimately increase the overall systemic quality of our software and systems while permeating a test-driven mindset that helps deliver the highest-quality solutions that delight our customers beyond expectation… which is easier said than done.

As a Quality Software Engineer II, your job is to join in that mission, with a team of other tenacious engineers, to solve significant problems and contribute to the delivery of automated testing solutions across multiple efforts to ensure world-class performance and quality of our systems and solutions. Your goal is to operate with a moderate level of latitude to engineer automated testing solutions to enable rapid delivery of solutions with the highest levels of quality. We help ensure the quality that makes building fantastic H-E-B Digital solutions possible - and we are incredibly proud of that.

Who You Are

• You approach work with an ownership mentality and strive to deliver consistent high-quality results.

• Identify ambiguous requirements, providing clarity when needed.

• Demonstrate effective use of technologies such as Selenium, Java, TestNG, Mocha, etc. and a willingness to learn new ones as they emerge.

• Demonstrate an awareness of architectural technologies, such as Android, iOS, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, etc. and are open to learning.

• Applies critical thinking skills to solve significant testing problems.

• Ability to understand complex systems and identify system characteristics, in order to apply principles of automation to routine tasks.

• Fundamental understanding of the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.

• Ability to communicate technical information and details effectively and understand customer systems.

• Bachelor's degree in a field related to Engineering or Computer Science, or relevant work experience.

• 3 years of hands-on experience in software test automation using various languages (like Java, Spring, JavaScript or Python).

• 1 years of experience in Agile software development methodology, continuous integration and continuous deployment approaches and tools.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with other Engineers in software testing techniques, processes and technologies.

• Contribute to the testing design and automation of features across systems that improve our customers' and Partners' user experience.

• Understand and effectively communicate the over-arching testing infrastructure and frameworks applied to our enterprise systems, including Partner facing applications, customer facing sites and mobile applications.

• Write code to automate testing for microservices, APIs, REST and UI following guidelines, best practices, and coding standards.

• Troubleshoot test failures and effectively communicate results, identifying bugs and flaky tests, across multiple teams and applications.

• Engage in and support the build and deployment pipeline for lower-level environments, and contribute to diagnosing production support issues when needed.

• Develop and apply testing coverage strategies for applications, using consistent automated testing practices.

• Engage in and improve the software delivery lifecycle by evangelizing a test-driven approach to software engineering and incorporating automated test suite(s) into CI/CD pipelines.

Do you have what it takes?

• Solid understanding of various software testing processes and techniques.

• General understanding of process implementation and expectations.

• Understanding of the process for designing, coding, executing and documenting results of automated testing.

• Fundamental understanding of automation frameworks.

• Familiarity with automation and performance testing and associated tools and frameworks.

• Strong analytical skills.

• Strong verbal / written communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to prepare / present quality-specific information at various levels with sufficient notice and preparation time.

• Ability to influence peers.

• Ability to adapt to change in the work environment and encourage others to accept / adapt to change.

• Ability to work in an open office work environment.

• Passion for quality and attention to detail.

• Self-motivated with a sense of urgency.

Who We Are

• H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $32 billion.

• We hire talented people, 120,000 Partners, and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business.

• We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter.

• We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values and support them with thriving company-wide programs.

• We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day.

• Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. "Partner-owned" means our most important resources - People - drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company.

Responsibilities H-E-B Digital is seeking new Partners! H-E-B is not only a grocery retailer, but also a leading innovator in technology and this is an exciting time to join our team. We're using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Described by industry experts as a daring innovator and smart competitor, H-E-B has led the way with creative new concepts, outstanding service and a commitment to diversity in our workforce, workplace and marketplace. H-E-B offers a wealth of career opportunities to our 120,000 Partners (employees), competitive compensation and benefits program and comprehensive training that lead to successful careers. Since 2015 H-E-B Digital has been investing heavily in our customers' digital experience, innovating our technology stack that supports our brick & mortar business and supply chain operations, reinventing how customers find inspiration from food, and how we ultimately help customers leverage amazing technology getting food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital, and we're hiring across the stack of our challenging distributed systems. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption-from manufacturing and supply chain, all the way to Curbside and Home Delivery-so you'll get the opportunity to help ensure a high-quality experience for our Partners and customers. If you're someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team. Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Quality Software Engineer II job, that means you have a… HEART FOR PEOPLE… you have a passion for person-to-person interactions that build credibility on your promise to deliver, and you continuously adjust your approach to deliver a consistent message; HEAD FOR BUSINESS… you are collaborative when faced with decisions, always evaluating the impact to make effective and timely choices; PASSION FOR RESULTS… the willingness to take action and iterate through failure to achieve improved outcomes. What you'll do at HEB: We invest in improvements that ultimately increase the overall systemic quality of our software and systems while permeating a test-driven mindset that helps deliver the highest-quality solutions that delight our customers beyond expectation… which is easier said than done. As a Quality Software Engineer II, your job is to join in that mission, with a team of other tenacious engineers, to solve significant problems and contribute to the delivery of automated testing solutions across multiple efforts to ensure world-class performance and quality of our systems and solutions. Your goal is to operate with a moderate level of latitude to engineer automated testing solutions to enable rapid delivery of solutions with the highest levels of quality. We help ensure the quality that makes building fantastic H-E-B Digital solutions possible - and we are incredibly proud of that. Who You Are - You approach work with an ownership mentality and strive to deliver consistent high-quality results. - Identify ambiguous requirements, providing clarity when needed. - Demonstrate effective use of technologies such as Selenium, Java, TestNG, Mocha, etc. and a willingness to learn new ones as they emerge. - Demonstrate an awareness of architectural technologies, such as Android, iOS, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, etc. and are open to learning. - Applies critical thinking skills to solve significant testing problems. - Ability to understand complex systems and identify system characteristics, in order to apply principles of automation to routine tasks. - Fundamental understanding of the flow of code and how it interacts with different components. - Ability to communicate technical information and details effectively and understand customer systems. - Bachelor's degree in a field related to Engineering or Computer Science, or relevant work experience. - 3 years of hands-on experience in software test automation using various languages (like Java, Spring, JavaScript or Python). - 1 years of experience in Agile software development methodology, continuous integration and continuous deployment approaches and tools. What You'll Do - Collaborate with other Engineers in software testing techniques, processes and technologies. - Contribute to the testing design and automation of features across systems that improve our customers' and Partners' user experience. - Understand and effectively communicate the over-arching testing infrastructure and frameworks applied to our enterprise systems, including Partner facing applications, customer facing sites and mobile applications. - Write code to automate testing for microservices, APIs, REST and UI following guidelines, best practices, and coding standards. - Troubleshoot test failures and effectively communicate results, identifying bugs and flaky tests, across multiple teams and applications. - Engage in and support the build and deployment pipeline for lower-level environments, and contribute to diagnosing production support issues when needed. - Develop and apply testing coverage strategies for applications, using consistent automated testing practices. - Engage in and improve the software delivery lifecycle by evangelizing a test-driven approach to software engineering and incorporating automated test suite(s) into CI/CD pipelines. Do you have what it takes? - Solid understanding of various software testing processes and techniques. - General understanding of process implementation and expectations. - Understanding of the process for designing, coding, executing and documenting results of automated testing. - Fundamental understanding of automation frameworks. - Familiarity with automation and performance testing and associated tools and frameworks. - Strong analytical skills. - Strong verbal / written communication and presentation skills. - Ability to prepare / present quality-specific information at various levels with sufficient notice and preparation time. - Ability to influence peers. - Ability to adapt to change in the work environment and encourage others to accept / adapt to change. - Ability to work in an open office work environment. - Passion for quality and attention to detail. - Self-motivated with a sense of urgency. Who We Are - H-E-B is one of the largest, independently owned food retailers in the nation, operating over 400 stores throughout Texas and Mexico, with annual sales generating over $32 billion. - We hire talented people, 120,000 Partners, and give them autonomy to be creative in how they impact the business. - We're a Partner-driven company with a Bold Promise - Because People Matter. - We embrace Diversity and Inclusion as core values and support them with thriving company-wide programs. - We're a truly original Texas-based company that created the Spirit of Giving to help Texas communities every day. - Once eligible, our Partners become Owners in the company. "Partner-owned" means our most important resources - People - drive the innovation, growth, and success that make H-E-B The Greatest Retailing Company.