Senior QA Engineer

With over 25 years' experience, plus the same enormous passion and ambition we had on day-one, we're trailblazers in the pet e-commerce industry. Our solutions make over 12 million customers genuinely happier – and that's something we really care about. We work together to continually adapt; embracing change and the challenges it brings so that we can keep doing better. Join us and discover a place where your potential meets your passion for pets. That's the power of plus.  

Our QA Center of Practice (CoP) is the hub for quality excellence, driving best practices, innovative testing, and continuous improvement across all products. We provide expert consultation, cutting-edge tools, and scalable solutions to empower product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

We're seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain advanced automation frameworks across multiple platforms. You'll act as a technical leader, mentor engineers, shape our automation strategy, and ensure high-quality, scalable solutions with organization-wide impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Frameworks: Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of automated testing frameworks (UI, API, mobile, performance) from scratch or by enhancing existing ones.

• Strategy: Collaborate with QA Leads, Engineering Managers, and Product Owners to define and execute automation roadmaps aligned with CoP objectives.

• Leadership: Provide mentorship, guidance, and technical expertise to QA Automation Engineers, fostering skill growth and best practice adoption.

• Tools & Methods: Research, evaluate, and recommend automation tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve efficiency.

• Test Development: Create, execute, and maintain automated test scripts for complex features with comprehensive coverage.

• CI/CD: Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for faster feedback and accelerated delivery.

• Reporting: Develop clear reporting on test results, providing actionable quality insights.

• Standards: Promote coding standards, design patterns, and maintain documentation for automation guidelines.

• Troubleshooting: Debug automation failures, identify root causes, and implement sustainable fixes.

• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, PMs, and QA peers to align on quality requirements.

• Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to CoP knowledge sessions and training initiatives.

• 5+ years in QA with strong focus on automation.

• Knowledge of software testing theory.

• Proven ability to build and maintain automation frameworks using Java, Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.

• Expertise with frameworks/tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured, JMeter, Gatling.

• Strong understanding of API testing (Postman, Rest Assured).

• Experience with Git and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins).

• Familiarity with cloud testing platforms (e.g., BrowserStack).

• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.

• Strong communication and mentoring abilities.

• Comfortable working independently and in agile teams.

For this position, the applicable collective agreement is the Collective Agreement for Employees in the E-Commerce Sector. The gross annual salary for this full-time role (38.5 hours/week) ranges from €56,000 to €66,000, depending on qualifications and professional experience

Headquartered in Munich, with offices across Madrid, Krakow, Wroclaw, London and Vienna, we collaborate because we genuinely love working together - so you'll be at the heart of an incredible, multinational team. We trust each other to get the job done, which means you'll benefit from hybrid working, spending 60% of your time in the office and 40% at home. There's an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.  

Add to that development opportunities that help you to shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products, and you'll begin to get a sense of what sets us apart. Find out more about the specific benefits at your local office in our blog posts. 

At zooplus, we believe in equal opportunity and support everyone to fulfil their potential. We recognise the power of listening and learning from each other and embrace diversity and inclusion of all.  

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zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.