Senior Quality Engineer (Playwright)
Job Summary
Overview
SeniorQualityEngineer(Playwright)
(Hybrid/Kraków 1 day per week in the office)
WereKingfisher a team made up of over74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama B&Q Screwfix BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.Thatsrightwerebig but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. Andthatswhere you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from allwalks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our officelocatedinYeovilSomerset. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encouragenew ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- 19000 - 26000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicoversports card (Fit&Morepackage)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses accounting courses access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
Whats the job
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our Findability this role you will play a key part in ensuring quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle helping to deliver reliablescalableand high-performing search and discovery experiences for our customers.
Working closely with Software Engineers Product Managers and other stakeholders you will drive test automation define effective qualitystrategiesand promote best practices across the to continuous improvement helping the team deliver high-quality software while fostering a culture of shared ownership and engineering excellence.
Ifyourelooking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software this is the job for you!
Responsibilities
- Own the designimplementationand maintenance of automated testing solutions to support the delivery of high-quality software.
- Develop and enhance automated test suites tovalidatefunctionalityreliabilityand performance across the application.
- Partner with Software Engineers and Product teams to ensure quality is considered from the earliest stages of solution design.
- Drive the adoption of automation and testing best practices helping the team build quality into every stage of development.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of test frameworkstoolsand development processes to increase efficiency and maintainability.
- Ensure automated tests are fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines providing fast and actionable feedback to development teams.
- Analyse defectsidentifyquality risks and work collaboratively to implement preventative improvements.
- Support the growth of engineering capability by sharingexpertise reviewing testapproachesand encouraging a culture of continuous learning and quality ownership.
What youll bring
- Strong experience developing andmaintainingautomated tests using JavaScript and/or TypeScript with hands-onexpertisein Playwright.
- Solid background in API testing including validating RESTful services through automated testing and ensuring reliable service integration.
- Good understanding of API testing tools and techniques for functional validationdebuggingand troubleshooting.
- Strong knowledge of software testing principles quality assurancepracticesand effective test design techniques.
- Experience embedding automated testing into modern CI/CD workflows to support continuous integration and delivery.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Software Engineers to improve application testability and promote a quality-first approach to development.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability toidentifyroot causes assess risks and drive quality improvements.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams contributing to engineering best practices continuousimprovementand high-quality software delivery.
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Kingfisher plc is an international home improvement company with over 1,360 stores in nine countries across Europe. We operate under retail banners including B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, Screwfix, Tradepoint and Koçtaş, supported by a team of 77,000 colleagues