Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yum! Brands is seeking a Sr. QA Engineer II to lead quality assurance efforts for their Point-of-Sale (POS) systems. The role involves developing automated tests, coordinating testing activities, and collaborating closely with developers and product teams to ensure high-quality releases in an agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated tests for new feature functionality within the sprint
- Build and expand automated regression test suites to ensure stability of existing features
- Define, estimate, prioritize, and coordinate testing activities within the scrum team
- Contribute to and enhance internally built test automation frameworks
- Design scalable and maintainable test strategies for UI, API, and integration testing
- Identify, log, and track defects, ensuring clear and actionable bug reports
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps to ensure shift-left testing practices
- Analyze failures across distributed systems, including logs, traces, and service interactions
- Ensure quality across end-to-end POS workflows, including offline/online scenarios and edge cases
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated tests are integrated into release workflows
- Mentor and guide QA engineers, fostering a culture of automation and quality ownership
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
- 5+ years of experience in Android test automation
- Proficiency in Kotlin or Java for Android development
- Solid experience with Node.js and TypeScript, including writing and maintaining automated tests
- Experience with test frameworks such as Mocha (or similar)
- Hands-on experience with UI automation frameworks such as Playwright
- Experience testing Android applications using frameworks like Appium
- Experience working with MQTT or similar Pub/Sub systems (e.g., WebSockets, SSE)
- Experience testing GraphQL APIs, including complex queries and mutations
- Familiarity with cloud environments and containerized deployments (Docker, container registries)
- Strong understanding of Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Experience debugging and analyzing logs across distributed services
- Proficiency with Jira or similar tools
- Experience with POS systems or Quick service restaurant technology
- Experience with performance testing and load generation
- Knowledge of microservices architecture
- Experience with real-time data systems
- Exposure to test data management and environment orchestration
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
- Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
- Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.
Company Overview
Yum! Brands is a quick-service restaurant brand that primarily operates the likes of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.yum.com.