Quality Engineer

Just Eat Holding; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Quality Engineer in the Engagement domain to join a cross-functional squad building the web, mobile, and .NET services powering loyalty and rewards for millions of customers and partners.

You will be the squad's quality champion, embedding testing across delivery, partnering with developers and product managers to define acceptance criteria and build reliable test automation.

Qualifications

• Strong Observability and debugging using tools like Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch or Grafana.
• Practical ability to query relational and NoSQL databases to inspect backend state and seed fixtures.
• Experience building/maintaining automated tests (Playwright, Cypress, or similar) with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Solid API testing experience using RESTful APIs and tools like Postman.
• Familiarity with web security principles (OWASP Top 10) and non-functional testing.
• Shift-left mindset: collaborate in refinement with Product Managers and Engineers to shape tests early.
• Collaborative mindset: communicate to enable developers to test effectively.

Responsibilities

• Be the squad's dedicated quality champion: define acceptance criteria during refinement before code is written.
• Build and maintain API and UI automation within the team's CI/CD pipeline.
• Bridge squad delivery with domain standards by adopting shared tooling and frameworks.
• Coach developers on writing effective tests to foster shared ownership.
• Prioritize risk-based testing to balance release velocity and user impact.
• Provide release readiness assessments with clear, evidence-based risk insights.

Skills

Observability

Data verification

Test automation

API testing

Security awareness

Shift-left

Collaboration

Tools

Datadog

Sentry

CloudWatch

Grafana

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We're a leading global online food 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

As a Quality Engineer in our Engagement domain, you will join a cross-functional squad building the web, mobile, and .NET services that power our loyalty and rewards programmes for millions of customers and partners worldwide.

In this role, you will be the squad's dedicated quality champion, embedding testing and reliability into every stage of delivery, from early refinement through to automated CI/CD pipelines.

While you'll be the sole QE embedded in your squad day-to-day, you won't be on an island: you will be supported by a wider chapter of Senior Quality Engineers across the domain to share best practices, modern frameworks, and architectural standards.

Rather than acting as a late-stage gatekeeper, you'll partner closely with developers and product managers to define clear acceptance criteria, build dependable test automation, and foster shared ownership of quality.

Based out of our London or Bristol tech hubs, you will collaborate with distributed engineering teams to ensure our engagement platforms remain fast, resilient, and seamless for our users.

Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week from our London/Bristol office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Technology Manager

These are some of the key ingredients to the role:

• Act as the squad's quality partner: Serve as the dedicated voice for quality within the cross-functional team, identifying edge cases and defining acceptance criteria during refinement before code is written.
• Build and maintain dependable automation: Engineer robust API and UI automation within the team's CI/CD pipeline, treating test code with the same architectural standards and clean-code practices as production software.
• Bridge squad delivery with domain standards: Collaborate with senior QEs across the wider engineering domain to adopt shared tooling, contribute back to frameworks, and maintain consistency.
• Champion collective ownership: Pair with developers and guide them on writing effective tests, ensuring testing is a shared team habit rather than a single-person bottleneck.
• Prioritize using risk-based testing: Balance release velocity against user impact by focusing testing efforts where failure costs the most, providing clear, evidence-based confidence for deployments.
• Provide release confidence: Act as a go-to advocate for release readiness, presenting clear, evidence-based assessments of risk rather than acting as an arbitrary gatekeeper.

What will you bring to the table?

• Observability & Debugging: Strong root-cause analysis skills, using log aggregation and application monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch, Grafana) to trace defects across services.
• Data Verification: Practical ability to query relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases to inspect backend states, seed test fixtures, and validate data integrity.
• Test Automation & Scripting: Practical experience building and maintaining automated tests (experience with tools like Testim.io or code-based frameworks such as Playwright or Cypress), with working knowledge of at least one programming language (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript).
• API Testing: Strong experience testing and validating RESTful APIs using tools like Postman (or code-based API test runners), with a solid understanding of HTTP methods, status codes, headers, and payloads.
• Security & Reliability Awareness: Familiarity with foundational web security principles (such as the OWASP Top 10) and a proactive approach to non-functional testing.
• Shift-Left Quality Practice: Experience actively participating in refinement sessions alongside Product Managers and Engineers to shape acceptance criteria, uncover edge cases, and design risk-based test plans before implementation begins.
• Collaborative Mindset: A communication style centered on enabling developers to test effectively, rather than acting as a solitary gatekeeper before release

At JET, this is on the menu:

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.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we 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 m