Senior Quality Engineer - 12-months contract

United States Digital Space LLC; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a QA Engineer to join the Courier Scheduling team in Berlin on a 12-month contract. You will balance manual testing with automation across web, mobile, and API layers to ensure reliable delivery ecosystems.

You will design and execute tests, build robust automated suites using Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright, and collaborate with developers, data scientists, and product managers to prevent issues and accelerate release pipelines.

Qualifikationen

• Strong hands-on experience combining exploratory manual testing with automated testing.
• Experience with web and API testing across diverse platforms.
• Ability to design, execute, and maintain test scripts and suites.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test automation best practices.

Aufgaben

• Plan, design, and execute comprehensive manual test scenarios and automated test scripts across web, mobile, and API layers to ensure seamless end-to-end user experiences.
• Build, maintain, and scale robust automated test suites using modern frameworks and programming languages to ensure high regression coverage and fast feedback loops.
• Perform requirements analysis, risk assessments, and root cause analysis on software defects to proactively elevate quality standards across the SDLC.
• Identify, report, and track bugs while monitoring key performance metrics to optimize continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Partner closely with developers and product managers to refine requirements, resolve quality blockers, and drive rapid feedback cycles.
• Audit team quality processes, share test automation best practices, and support peer engineers to ensure collective success and alignment with company standards.

Kenntnisse

Manual testing

Automation testing

Web testing

API testing

Java

JavaScript

Analytical thinking

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

REST Assured

Postman

k6

Datadog

Grafana

New Relic

Jobbeschreibung

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

The Courier Scheduling team is at the heart of our delivery ecosystem, ensuring we have the right courier coverage at the right place and time to handle millions of orders seamlessly.

In this role, you'll be crucial to maintaining the quality, accuracy, and reliability of our complex scheduling engines and algorithms, balancing both hands-on exploratory testing and modern test automation. You will work side-by-side with developers, data scientists, and product managers to catch edge cases early, optimize release pipelines, and prevent shift planning disruptions.

We're looking for someone who champions end-to-end quality, embodies our values of lead, deliver, and care, and ensures our core logistical platform operates without a hitch.

• Please note that this is a 12-months contract
• Please note that this position is located in Berlin (3 days a week from our Berlin office and 2 days working from home)

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Plan, design, and execute comprehensive manual test scenarios and automated test scripts across web, mobile, and API layers to ensure seamless end-to-end user experiences.
• Build, maintain, and scale robust automated test suites using modern frameworks and programming languages to ensure high regression coverage and fast feedback loops.
• Perform requirements analysis, risk assessments, and root cause analysis on software defects to proactively elevate quality standards across the SDLC.
• Identify, report, and track bugs while monitoring key performance metrics to optimize continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Partner closely with developers and product managers to refine requirements, resolve quality blockers, and drive rapid feedback cycles.
• Audit team quality processes, share test automation best practices, and support peer engineers to ensure collective success and alignment with company standards.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong hands-on experience combining exploratory manual testing techniques with code-based automated testing methods across web and API platforms.
• Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable automation code using languages like Java or JavaScript with frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Solid expertise in API testing and performance tooling using REST Assured, Postman, or k6 to ensure robust backend service reliability.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Grafana, New Relic) to track system health, metrics, and production issues.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of conducting root cause analysis on complex, distributed systems.
• Exceptional communication skills combined with a proactive, self-starter mindset to drive quality outcomes in fast-paced engineering teams.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else are we delivering?

Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET journeys.