Quality Automation Engineer
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9 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture!
At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.
As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the worlds favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.
Were part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse people-first culture where respect ownership growth and better together values thrive.
If youre passionate about food technology and making a real impact your seat at the table is ready.
Discover life at TheFork
What you will do:
- Design build and evolve test automation frameworks and internal tooling (Playwright TypeScript as primary stack)
- Act as owner of the test ecosystem including repositories architecture and long-term maintainability
- Define and enforce testing standards guidelines and best practices across engineering teams
- Enable developers to write effective tests by providing abstractions utilities and reusable components
- Drive test architecture decisions (structure layering fixtures data handling isolation strategies)
- Collaborate with teams to improve testability of systems (APIs frontend data flows) without directly owning feature tests
- Own and optimize CI/CD test pipelines (e.g. Jenkins) focusing on speed reliability and scalability
- Identify systemic issues (flakiness instability slow feedback loops) and implement structural solutions not patches
- Design and maintain test data management and environment orchestration strategies
- Define implement and evolve quality gates and metrics (coverage reliability execution time signal quality)
- Support teams in debugging complex failures by providing observability and diagnostic tooling
- Explore and integrate AI-driven testing capabilities to improve productivity and test robustness
- Mentor engineers and promote a quality engineering mindset across the organization
Who you are:
You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications (Mandatory requirements to be listed here)
- Strong experience as an SDET / Quality Engineer with a focus on frameworks and tooling not just test implementation
- Excellent programming skills in TypeScript / JavaScript
- Proven experience designing and maintaining test frameworks at scale
- Hands-on experience with modern automation tools (Playwright preferred)
- Strong understanding of test architecture patterns (test pyramid separation of concerns isolation strategies)
- Experience enabling teams through libraries SDKs or shared tooling
- Solid experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins) including pipeline optimization and debugging
- Experience with API testing (REST/GraphQL) and designing reusable testing layers
- Strong problem-solving skills focused on root cause analysis and systemic improvements
- Comfortable working cross-team and acting as a technical reference for quality
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
You Can Impress With These Additions (Nice to have to be listed here)
- Experience building internal developer platforms or test platforms
- Deep expertise in Playwright ecosystem (custom reporters fixtures plugins parallelization strategies)
- Experience with GraphQL testing tooling and schema-driven validation
- Familiarity with quality gate systems (e.g. SonarQube / SonarCloud) and defining engineering-wide standards
- Experience with test data platforms (dynamic data generation seeding environment control)
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing / LLM-based tooling
- Backend development experience ( preferred)
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and ephemeral environments
- Strong understanding of observability (logs metrics tracing) applied to test systems
- Experience in organizations where testing is decentralized but governed centrally
What we offer you:
An awesome team
A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)
Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)
Competitive fixed salary and bonus
Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes we like to try our best restaurants)
International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe
Highly inclusive working environment
Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities family support travel etc
Continuous learning and development programs
Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey
Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)
Health insurance covered by the company
Financial support for birth adoption civil partnerships or marriage
Transport allowance
Health insurance fully covered by the company
Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
Amazing offices with dining coffee points and leisure area
Team building events
All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.
We believe that we are better together and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone - regardless of ability age socio-economic & cultural background ethnicity faith gender gender expression gender identity ideology national origin race sexual orientation marital status or any characteristic protected under applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.
TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application interview or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability please direct your inquiries to Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.
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