Senior QA Engineer

Company Description

With over 25 years’ experience, plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one, we’re trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier – and that’s something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt; embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. That’s the power of plus.

Job Description

We seek an Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our SHOPPING within the Engineering and Operations function at zooplus, bring new features to life, and support our products' move to modern agile and technical practices and architectures.

As a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer specialising in automation and cutting-edge software testing methodologies, you play a pivotal role in upholding the highest quality standards within your team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you spearhead the quality assurance efforts, ensuring seamless collaboration across various functional teams. You serve as the beacon of excellence in product delivery and deployment, setting the benchmark for quality standards. Your expertise serves as a bridge to the QA Center of Practice, facilitating the exchange of best practices within and beyond your team. Your primary objective is cultivating a culture of excellence and efficiency in quality assurance, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on innovative solutions rather than redundant testing procedures. By leveraging advanced tooling and coding techniques, you seamlessly integrate automation testing into every team member's daily workflow. Through close collaboration with cross-functional teams, you drive the implementation of new features and enhancements, ultimately enhancing the experience for over 9 million customers.

As our Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you embrace the following responsibilities:

• Take ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all aspects of testing.

• Work on acceptance criteria and test scenarios with the Product Owner and development team.

• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and automation capabilities for all test levels and types (e.g., automated, manual, regression, exploratory).

• Create and optimise test frameworks and integrate them into deployment pipelines.

• Participate in the code review process for both production and test code to ensure all critical cases are covered.

• Monitor test runs, application errors and performance.

• Make information flow, keeping the team informed and being a stakeholder in releases and defect tracking.

• Share the best testing and quality practices and processes across zooplus.

• Promote and coach the team towards a quality-focused mindset.

• Influence and lead the team towards continuous improvement and best testing practices.

• Be the reference of the QA Center of Practice, promoting their practices and influencing their strategy, bringing your team experience into their plan.

Qualifications

As Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you must be able to provide:

• Ability to work in an autonomous, self-responsible and self-organised way.

• 6+ years of experience in software testing, manual and automated

• Knowledge of software testing theory.

• Strong Experience working with modern test automation frameworks and tools (such as Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Allure).

• Hands on experience with TestRail.

• Strong experience in different testing practices (from unit to E2E, functional and non-functional) specifically integrated within CI/CD.

• Strong knowledge of Java development for tests.

• Understanding of OOP concepts.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, Kibana, Grafana, etc.).

• Knowledge of API testing and REST APIs.

• Familiar with cloud-native solutions (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Knowledge in multiple platform concepts (Micro-services, Event-driven Architecture)

• Able to effectively communicate in English.

Nice to have:

• Good experience in SQL and relational database concepts.

• Experience writing clean code in different programming languages (Java, Python, Kotlin, JavaScript TypeScript).

• Experience with Behavior-driven Development

• Experience with APP test automation tools.

• Experience with AI-assisted development and modern SDLC tooling:

• Tools like GitHub Copilot / Copilot Chat

• Applying AI for code generation, refactoring, test automation, and documentation

• Using AI to accelerate debugging, prototyping, and architectural decisions

Additional Information

Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you’ll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you’ll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you’ll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts.

At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.

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