Quality Engineer (TypeScript)

Kingfisher; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 134,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary PLN 12-22k gross/mon

Private medical care (LUXMED)

Medicoversports card

Life insurance

Lunch break 30 minutes

Professional atmosphere

Training & Buddy program

Wellbeing program

Public transport subsidy Krakow

Home office option

Language courses & LinkedIn Learning

Employee referral program

Job summary

Kingfisher is looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join the Software Engineering team in Kraków. This hybrid role requires about one day per week in the Kraków office, with flexible home/office balance.

You will help embed quality into platform capabilities, shaping testing approaches, automation, and continuous quality improvements to support reliable platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing using JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong API testing capabilities for RESTful services.
• Familiar with test validation tools and libraries.
• Solid fundamentals in software testing and defect prevention.
• Experience embedding tests in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborates with backend engineers to ensure testability.
• Excellent English communication and proactive quality mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated tests for API, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Develop and improve test automation frameworks and standards.
• Collaborate with engineers and product stakeholders to embed quality.
• Create automated tests across multiple levels to ensure reliability.
• Integrate tests into delivery pipelines for timely feedback.
• Identify quality risks early and promote best automation practices.
• Share testing knowledge and support others in automation efforts.

Skills

Test automation

JavaScript/TypeScript

Playwright

API testing

CI/CD pipelines

Agile

English communication

Tools

Playwright

Job description

Overview

QualityEngineer

(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)

We’reKingfisher, a team made up of over74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.That’sright,we’rebig, 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. Andthat’swhere 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, genderexpressionor sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office,locatedin Kraków. 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:

• 12,000 - 22,000 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

What's the job?

About the role

We are looking for an experiencedQuality Engineer to join our Software Engineering team.As a Quality Engineer in a platform-focused team, you will help ensure quality is embedded into shared platform capabilities used by other engineering teams.

You will work closely with engineers and stakeholders to integrate quality practices throughout the development lifecycle, contributing to testing approaches, automation, and continuous quality improvement to support reliable platform adoption.

Ifyou'relooking 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

• Build andmaintainautomated testing solutions tovalidatethe quality of platform services and shared components.

• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of test automation approaches, frameworks, and standards.

• Collaborate closely with engineers and product stakeholders to ensure quality is considered throughout design, development, and delivery.

• Create and run automated tests at multiple levels, including API, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.

• Ensure test coverage supports platform scalability, reliability, and long-term sustainability.

• Embed automated tests into delivery pipelines to providetimelyand reliable feedback.

• Identifypotential quality risks early, helping to prevent defects and improve overall platform stability.

• Support other engineers by sharing testing knowledge and promoting effective automation practices.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience in test automation using JavaScript and/or TypeScript, with hands-on use of Playwright as a primary testing framework.

• Proven experience in API testing, including designing, implementing, andmaintainingautomated tests for RESTful services.

• Practical knowledge of tools and libraries used for API validation

• Solid understanding of software testing fundamentals, including test design, coverage, and early defect prevention.

• Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support fast and reliable feedback.

• Ability to work closely with backend engineers to ensure services are testable and quality is built in from the start.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach toidentifyingrisks and improving quality.

• Experience working in Agile environments, contributing to the continuous improvement of testing practices and tooling.

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)