Remote Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer – Krakow – Remote 

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, 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. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks 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 advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles.

Role Overview:

We are going through an exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Quality Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology within Kingfisher. You will be responsible for the delivery of testing for the product/project whilst working closely to support and mentor junior members of the team.

If you're looking 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! 

What we offer 

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

• Responsible for the testing for the product/project/platform team.
• Contribute to the standards and procedures which determine product quality and release readiness.
• Work closely with Senior Quality Engineers, Principal Engineers/Senior Engineers to support continuous improvement.
• Build strong rapport with Business stakeholders to gain context perspective and ensure alignment on priority/criticality of test coverage.
• Utilise approaches such as 3 Amigos/Story Huddles to fully understand requirements.
• Define and maintain the automation tests for services, integrations, components/applications
• Pro-actively seek root causes and associated owners to ensure timely resolution of issues.
• Identifying test data requirements, arrange the creation accordingly.
• Utilise the appropriate testing tools.

• You have working knowledge of Jenkins, Git/GitLab, Jira and Confluence.
• Essential - you have hands-on experience of test automation (scripting and execution).
• Platform experience to direct automation across environment stack (existing and new).
• You have experience of testing APIs and industry standard tooling, such as SOAP UI, RestAssured, Postman.
• You have a good working knowledge of CI/CD practices, SQL and Docker.
• You ideally have experience with microservices and simulation/mock libraries.
• You have experience with Cloud environments..
• You have experience of Agile methodology including practices such as Scrum or Kanban.
• You may have Python experience.