Senior Quality Engineer (Playwright)

Kingfisher; Kraków; On-site; PLN 212,040 - 290,160; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare (LuxMed)

Life insurance

30-minute lunch break

Hybrid work model (Kraków office + 1‑3

Wellbeing programme

Job summary

Kingfisher is seeking an experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join the Findability squad. You will drive test automation, define quality strategies and promote best practices across the team, delivering reliable search and discovery experiences for customers.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers and stakeholders to embed quality from design through delivery, with a strong emphasis on automation, CI/CD and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing and maintaining automated tests using JavaScript/TypeScript, with hands-on expertise in Playwright.
• Solid background in API testing and validating RESTful services via automation.
• Good understanding of API testing tools and techniques for functional validation.
• Strong knowledge of QA principles, test design, and quality assurance practices.
• Experience embedding automated testing into modern CI/CD workflows.
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation and maintenance of automated testing solutions.
• Develop and enhance automated test suites to validate functionality, reliability and performance across the application.
• Partner with Software Engineers and Product teams to ensure quality is considered from the earliest stages of solution design.
• Drive the adoption of automation and testing best practices, helping the team build quality into every stage of development.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of test frameworks, tools and development processes to increase efficiency and maintainability.
• Ensure automated tests are fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines, providing fast and actionable feedback to development teams.
• Analyse defects, identify quality risks and work collaboratively to implement preventative improvements.
• Support the growth of engineering capability by sharing expertise, reviewing test approaches and encouraging a culture of continuous learning and quality ownership.

Skills

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

API testing

CI/CD

Agile

English

Job description

Overview

SeniorQualityEngineer(Playwright)

(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, gender expression or sexual orientation.

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

• 19,000 - 26,000 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 experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our Findability team. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle, helping to deliver reliable,scalableand high-performing search and discovery experiences for our customers.

Working closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers and other stakeholders, you will drive test automation, define effective qualitystrategiesand promote best practices across the squad.You'llcontribute to continuous improvement, helping the team deliver high-quality software while fostering a culture of shared ownership and engineering excellence.

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

• Own the design,implementationand maintenance of automated testing solutions to support the delivery of high-quality software.

• Develop and enhance automated test suites tovalidatefunctionality,reliabilityand performance across the application.

• Partner with Software Engineers and Product teams to ensure quality is considered from the earliest stages of solution design.

• Drive the adoption of automation and testing best practices, helping the team build quality into every stage of development.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of test frameworks,toolsand development processes to increase efficiency and maintainability.

• Ensure automated tests are fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines, providing fast and actionable feedback to development teams.

• Analyse defects,identifyquality risks and work collaboratively to implement preventative improvements.

• Support the growth of engineering capability by sharingexpertise, reviewing testapproachesand encouraging a culture of continuous learning and quality ownership.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience developing andmaintainingautomated tests using JavaScript and/or TypeScript, with hands-onexpertisein Playwright.

• Solid background in API testing, including validating RESTful services through automated testing and ensuring reliable service integration.

• Good understanding of API testing tools and techniques for functional validation,debuggingand troubleshooting.

• Strong knowledge of software testing principles, quality assurancepracticesand effective test design techniques.

• Experience embedding automated testing into modern CI/CD workflows to support continuous integration and delivery.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with Software Engineers to improve application testability and promote a quality-first approach to development.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability toidentifyroot causes, assess risks and drive quality improvements.

• Experience working within Agile delivery teams, contributing to engineering best practices, continuousimprovementand high-quality software delivery.

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

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