Essential duties and responsibilitiesparticipate in development and execute test strategies for both manual and automation testing, ensuring thorough test coverage and alignment with project goals. Build a deep understanding of pricing systems in the wholesale food distribution industry, ensuring high levels of system reliability and effectiveness. Align with and maintain quality assurance processes to ensure the reliability, accuracy, and efficiency of pricing systems and data. Collaborate with business, technology, and external product teams to prioritize and meet quality objectives, maximizing business benefits. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product owners, architects, developers, and vendor teams, to align quality efforts with product roadmaps. Partner with product owners and smes to identify, design, and execute new test coverage and capabilities that address both business needs and technical requirements. Engage in agile ceremonies and test case management, including participation in milestone meetings, backlog activities, and reporting on project progress and test execution. Participate bug triage sessions to prioritize and resolve issues based on input from multiple stakeholders and ensure quality standards are met. Align with and help support best practices for quality assurance, including continuous process improvements within both manual and automation testing domains. Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality product features, collaborating with stakeholders to meet project timelines and ensure user satisfaction. Contribute to defining user stories, including detailed requirements and acceptance criteria, for pricing scenarios and related calculations. Participate in development of test data strategy, automate test data generation, and validate data accuracy. Participate in user acceptance testing (uat) and production readiness testing, analyzing results and providing actionable feedback for improvement. Knowledge/skills/abilities: good written & verbal communication skills experience executing, and reporting on large quality efforts experience with playwright for ui automation or selenium on automating web applications using java experience with testing apis using api testing tools such as postman experience with rest assured and automating rest web services experience in cucumber bdd framework for creating test cases 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 preferred qualifications experience with lead activities for both onshore and offshore teammates familiarity with agile development methodology and tools like jira experience with pricing and/or in the wholesale food distribution industries knowledge/skills/abilities: good written & verbal communication skills experience executing, and reporting on large quality efforts experience with selenium on automating web applications using java experience with testing apis using api testing tools such as postman experience with rest assured and automating rest web services experience in cucumber bdd framework for creating test cases 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