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Ventura Foods · 3 hours ago

Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Irvine, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$136K/yr - $179K/yr

5+ years exp

Ventura Foods is seeking a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer who will be a hands-on, individual contributor responsible for designing and developing testing automation frameworks. The role involves collaborating with development and ops teams, providing technical leadership, and ensuring quality metrics are defined and met.

Food ProcessingManufacturing

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Designing and developing our testing automation framework utilizing Python, Playwright, and PyTest

Develop and evangelize enterprise-wide testing strategy, standards, and best practices

Define quality metrics (e.g., defect leakage, code coverage, mean time to detect/fix)

Deep expertise in Python, PyTest and Playwright automation frameworks and testing tools like Playwright, Jmeter, Jenkins, Grafana, Jira, and GitHub

Proficient in extending automation framework and enhancing test automation coverage

Develop automation test plan, test strategy, test scenarios and review with pod leaders and business

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

Proven hands-on work experience with both white box and black box testing

Develops and executes test plan and test cases

Identify and report bugs, and identifies quality issues

Drafts, revises, and approves test plans and scripts

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve software quality issues

Provide technical leadership to QA engineers and developers on best practices

Ensure environment readiness for testing cycles

Conduct root cause analysis and retrospectives for production defects

Accurately estimates test workload and coordinates with development teams on priorities

Evaluates test results against expected results, implements improvements to process and recommend alternative testing as needed

Confirm the correctness of resolved defects and documents results

Provides regular updates on progress of allocated test designs and test cases to ensure deadlines are met

Communicates promptly with team, management, and project managers

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases

Define release criteria and sign-off processes and ensure test coverage and validation in staging/production environments

Perform other duties as assigned

Define secure coding and testing practices in collaboration with Security teams

Define and implement smoke, regression, user acceptance test suites, performance testing standards and benchmarks

Define test data management strategy for integration, UAT, and production-like test environments

Additional responsibilities as assigned

Qualification

PythonPlaywrightPyTestJenkinsJmeterGrafanaAPI testingAgile/ScrumTechnical leadershipCommunication skillsProblem-solvingTime managementCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree required

5+ years of experience in software automation testing

Hands-on experience with Python and Playwright to automate web regression testing

Deep expertise in Python, PyTest and Playwright automation frameworks and testing tools like Playwright, Jmeter, Jenkins, Grafana, Jira, and GitHub

Proficient in extending automation framework and enhancing test automation coverage

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes

Proven hands-on work experience with both white box and black box testing

Develops and executes test plan and test cases

Identify and report bugs, and identifies quality issues

Drafts, revises, and approves test plans and scripts

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve software quality issues

Provide technical leadership to QA engineers and developers on best practices

Ensure environment readiness for testing cycles

Conduct root cause analysis and retrospectives for production defects

Accurately estimates test workload and coordinates with development teams on priorities

Evaluates test results against expected results, implements improvements to process and recommend alternative testing as needed

Confirm the correctness of resolved defects and documents results

Provides regular updates on progress of allocated test designs and test cases to ensure deadlines are met

Communicates promptly with team, management, and project managers

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases

Define release criteria and sign-off processes and ensure test coverage and validation in staging/production environments

Define secure coding and testing practices in collaboration with Security teams

Define and implement smoke, regression, user acceptance test suites, performance testing standards and benchmarks

Define test data management strategy for integration, UAT, and production-like test environments

Preferred

Knowledge of API and performance testing using Postman and Jmeter is a plus

Bachelor's degree emphasis in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is desired

Experience in CPG/Foodservice industry preferred

ERP (i.e. JDE EnterpriseOne, SAP, Oracle, etc.) experience preferred

Experience with Web automation testing with Playwright, Python, Pytest preferred

Company

Ventura Foods

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Ventura Foods – a leading producer of custom and proprietary dressings, sauces, mayonnaises, oils and other flavorings. It is a sub-organization of CHS Hedging.

Founded in 1867

Brea, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.venturafoods.com/

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