QA Engineering Leader | Range Operations

IKEA; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IKEA in Malmö (Hyllie) seeks a QA Engineering Leader to elevate quality across Range technology. You will lead test strategy, coach product teams, and embed automation with Playwright/Cypress and CI/CD in a global setting. English fluency and strong communication are essential.

Join a collaborative, inclusive culture that values experimentation, continuous learning, and delivering reliable software that touches homes worldwide. This role is based in Malmö and requires on-site presence.

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Have at least 2 years hands-on software engineering experience.
• Have at least 5 years hands-on QA processes, testing methodologies, and QA tooling.
• Demonstrate knowledge of modern product development principles (DevOps, automation, blue-green deployments).
• Experience building test automation frameworks and using them with cross-functional product teams.
• Able to coach product teams, testers and developers on test automation and quality-first practices.
• Excellent communication and ability to work across teams; fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Develop QA test plans and define acceptance criteria for built and purchased software.
• Plan, coordinate, and lead QA activities to ensure testing is delivered on time.
• Coach and mentor product teams on QA frameworks and best practices.
• Drive clarity, consistency, and quality in requirements across product and platform teams.
• Champion test data creation, mocking, and test automation balancing cost and value.
• Provide coaching to engineering and platform communities to strengthen quality practices.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to ensure features include quality assurance in delivery.
• Support decoupled work and interface-level testing across teams.
• Act as SME on performance, penetration, and high-availability testing when needed.
• Support managers in follow-ups and quality discussions with partners.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Automation

Playwright

Cypress

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

English Fluent

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related engineering

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

GitHub Actions

Sentry

Splunk

Job description

Job Description

Do you want to furnish the future with innovative solutions? With us, you can feel at home in your work while sharing that feeling with millions of people around the world. We encourage you to stand up for yourself and others, creating an environment where everyone feels welcome. We invite you to open new doors, discover new tech possibilities, embrace mistakes, and grow from them. As our QA Engineering Leader, you’ll have many opportunities to try things you’ve never done before.

Your new job

We’re looking for a QA Engineering Leader who wants to solve complex, real‑world problems to make life at home simpler. Join us on our journey as we level up our technology to enhance everyday experiences. Your primary focus will be on leading and continuously refining the quality and test automation approach within Range experience together with the other Software Engineering Leaders and Specialists. You will also be sharing your work in the wider Range Areas and you’ll report to the Quality Platform QA Manager. The impact of your work will touch homes and hearts around the world.

On a Typical Day, You Will

• Develop QA test plans and define acceptance criteria for both built and purchased software solutions.
• Plan, coordinate, and lead QA activities to ensure testing is executed effectively and delivered on time.
• Coach and mentor members of digital product teams on QA frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
• Drive clarity, consistency, and quality in requirements across product and platform teams.
• Champion test data creation, mocking, and test automation as the preferred testing approach, always balancing cost, value, and efficiency.
• Provide coaching and constructive feedback to engineering and platform communities to strengthen quality practices and a quality‑first mindset.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and platform leaders to ensure features are implemented with quality assurance built into the delivery process.
• Support product and platform teams in working in a decoupled way to improve software quality and enable effective interface‑level testing.
• Act as the subject matter expert on specialist QA disciplines such as performance testing, penetration testing, and high‑availability assurance when needed.
• Support Engineering Managers in follow‑ups, reviews, and quality discussions with consultancy partners.

Qualifications

What we’d like you to bring to the table

As a person you see the joy of sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues across different teams. Being curious and innovative is at the core of everything you do, and you know that making mistakes sometimes is part of your own development and learning journey. You bring extensive experience and knowledge in software development and are fully familiar with agile/DevOps practices and tooling, and how the quality aspect is an integrated part of the development. Ideally, you have experience in building test automation frameworks and building their usage in an organization of cross‑functional product teams. You are an experienced leader with the ability to coach our product teams, testers and developers alike around test automation as an integrated part in software development, helping to ensure that we use our resources in the best way to achieve the strongest outcome. You enjoy an agile, iterative and structured way of working and achieving results together with a team in a flexible environment but also have a strong individual drive to deliver high‑quality results on time. You have great communication and networking skills and are fluent in written and spoken English.

• Hold a degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Have at least 2 years of hands‑on software engineering experience.
• Have at least 5 years of hands‑on experience working with QA processes, testing methodologies, and QA tooling.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of modern digital product development principles, including aligned autonomy, Conway’s Law, product decomposition, DevOps, automation, blue‑green deployments, and automated regression testing.
• Coach and support engineering teams in adopting quality‑first ways of working and embedding quality throughout the development lifecycle.
• Advocate for early defect prevention through practices such as automation, clear requirements, and decoupled architectures.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at different levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Be a trusted subject matter expert in quality assurance, providing guidance on specialist QA approaches when needed.
• Have experience of building and maintaining modern test automation frameworks for web using Playwright, Cypress or similar, including custom framework design in JavaScript/TypeScript with deep CI/CD integration via GitHub Actions.

It’s a plus if you also have experience with:

• Using Sentry, Splunk or similar tools for monitoring and real‑time error tracking
• Procurement processes and quality assurance of off‑the‑shelf or SaaS solutions.
• Non‑functional requirement (NFR) quality assurance and performance testing practices.

Additional Information

Be yourself, a QA Engineering Leader, and more!

Inter IKEA Group is the group of companies that connects IKEA franchisees with range development and suppliers and aligns the overall IKEA strategic direction. Every day, we strive to develop, produce and sell products and services that are affordable and accessible to everyone. With us, you contribute to building a democratic brand and workplace that has a positive impact on both the planet and people’s lives.

This position is based in the QA Platform of Inter IKEA Range Operations. Business platforms are new at Range and will support productsto be more efficient. Your health, wellbeing, and development matter most to us, and our benefits are designed with you in mind. As a co‑worker and a person, you are an essential part of our down to earth, playful, and inclusive culture, collaborating with others across roles, departments, and even across the globe. In this curious and optimistic environment, you’ll find endless opportunities to grow. Make us the home of your career.

We welcome your application

This is a full‑time position located in Malmö (Hyllie). We believe that your presence with the team and working the majority of the time in the workplace is important.

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs.

If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.

We always recruit based on values, competence, potential and diversity. We will first consider co‑workers employed at Inter IKEA Group impacted by organisational changes. For this specific recruitment priority will be given to impacted co‑workers in IKEA of Sweden and Inter IKEA Technology Services AB, provided competence requirements are met for the role.