QA Engineer [DOT]

HEINEKEN Global Shared Services; Kraków; On-site; PLN 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Kraków, part of the Digital & Technology Team (D&T), is looking for a QA Engineer to join the Commerce DevOps Hub and ensure high-quality e-Commerce software. You will design test strategies, automate tests, and collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and DevOps across the full SDLC.

You should have 5+ years in testing, strong automation & API testing skills, and experience with Playwright or similar frameworks, JavaScript or C#, Jira, Git, and Azure Cloud.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of working experience in a similar position.
• Strong automation integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with API testing to validate functionality and performance.
• Experience with accessibility testing to ensure compliance.
• Security testing experience to identify vulnerabilities.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop test cases, plans, and strategies to ensure coverage.
• Execute automated tests across platforms to validate software functionality and performance.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts with Playwright or similar frameworks.
• Enhance automation infrastructure and test suites for CI/CD.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD integration

API testing

Accessibility testing

Security testing

Manual testing

English proficiency

Programming for test automation

Agile collaboration

Tools

Playwright

JavaScript

C#

Jira

Git

Azure Cloud

Postman/Swagger

Job description

Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalising and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

Our dream at HEINEKEN is to help our customers grow their businesses by serving them better, faster, and smarter with digital solutions. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the importance of digital in the Commerce space at Heineken. HEINEKEN’s digital solutions are a vital component in protecting and growing the company's revenue. To ensure that this trend is supported the Commerce DevOps Hub has been established. This newly created organization, being an integral part of the Global Digital & Technology Function, is tasked with engineering the software which powers e-Commerce. The Commerce DevOps Hub location is in Kraków, Poland.

As the QA Engineer, you will be part of the development team responsible for testing our e-Commerce platform. Collaborating closely with Product Owner(s), Architect(s) and other DevOps teams you will need to understand the business needs, helping Product Architect(s) to convert those needs into testing specifications and services in line with overall engineering standards and roadmaps. Driving excellence in engineering practices to deliver high-quality solutions throughout the software development lifecycle in our Commerce IT landscape, will be important element of your role.

The role reports directly to the Engineering Manager

Your Responsibilities Would Include

• developing test cases, test plans, and test strategies to ensure comprehensive test coverage
• executing automated tests on agreed acceptance criteria across various platforms, browsers, and devices to validate software functionality, usability, and performance. Identifying, prioritising, and reporting defects, working closely with Software Development Engineers to resolve issues
• developing and maintaining automated test scripts using scripting languages or test automation frameworks
• continuously enhancing automation infrastructure, test frameworks, and test suites to improve test efficiency and effectiveness
• conducting regression testing to ensure software changes do not introduce new defects or regressions. Developing and maintaining regression test suites to support continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• collaborating with Product Managers, Designers, and other stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of quality goals, requirements, and priorities. Participating in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, and sprint reviews.

Technology stack

Mandatory To Know

• Playwright or similar modern test automation framework
• programming language like JavaScript or C#
• Jira / Git
• familiarity with Azure Cloud
• API testing methodology and tooling
• CI/CD pipelines.

Good To Know

• performance testing tools (k6/Gatling/JMeter)
• Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber
• Postman / Swagger or similar API testing tools
• Storybook and Chromatic
• Programming language
• Azure cloud or other cloud solution.

You Are a Good Candidate If You Have

• 5+ years of working experience in a similar position
• strong understanding of integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines
• experience with accessibility testing tools to ensure compliance with accessibility standards and guidelines
• experience with testing APIs to validate functionality, performance, and reliability
• experience with security testing to identify vulnerabilities and ensure system robustness against potential threat
• strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices
• experience with manual testing techniques, test case design, and test execution
• proficiency in programming language for test automation
• experience with test automation tools
• pragmatic, and collaborative team player mindset
• excellent written and verbal English.

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