Senior QA Engineer

Job Description

We seek an Expert Quality Assurance Engineer to join our SHOPPING department within the Engineering and operation function zooplus
, bring new features to life, and support our products' move to modern agile and technical practices and architectures.

As a seasoned Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in automation and cutting‑edge software testing methodologies, you play a pivotal role in upholding the highest quality standards within your team. Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, you spearhead the quality assurance efforts, ensuring seamless collaboration across various functional teams. You serve as the beacon of excellence in product delivery and deployment, setting the benchmark for quality standards.

Your expertise serves as a bridge to the QA Center of Practice, facilitating the exchange of best practices within and beyond your team. Your primary objective is cultivating a culture of excellence and efficiency in quality assurance, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on innovative solutions rather than redundant testing procedures. By leveraging advanced tooling and coding techniques, you seamlessly integrate automation testing into every team member’s daily workflow.

Through close collaboration with cross‑functional teams, you drive the implementation of new features and enhancements, ultimately enhancing the experience for over 9 million customers.

• Take ownership and responsibility for the design and development of all aspects of testing.
• Work on acceptance criteria and test scenarios with the Product Owner and development team.
• Design, execute, and maintain test scenarios and automation capabilities for all test levels and types (e.g., automated, regression, exploratory, etc.).
• Create and optimize test frameworks and integrate them into deployment pipelines.
• Participate in the code review process for both production and test code to ensure all critical cases are covered.
• Monitoring test runs, application errors and performance.
• Make information flow, keep the team informed and be a stakeholder in releases and defect tracking.
• Share the best testing and quality practices and processes across Zooplus.
• Promote and coach the team towards a quality-focused mindset.
• Influence and lead the team towards continuous improvement and best testing practices.
• Be the reference of the QA Center of Practice
  , promoting their practices and influencing their strategy, bringing your team experience into their plan.

• Knowledge of software testing theory.
• Comfortable in developing test automation frameworks from scratch and maintaining existing frameworks.
• 6+ years of experience in software testing
  , manual and automated.
• Strong experience in different testing practices (from unit to load to endurance to cross‑platform) specifically integrated within CI/CD.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools (e.g., Jenkins, Kibana, Grafana, etc.).
• Knowledge with K8s, Docker.
• Knowledge of UI testing, REST protocol and microservice architecture
  .
• Mobile QA Engineering requirements
  • Espresso, XCUITest
  • Testrail
  • Bitrise, Jenkins
  • Charles Proxy
  • Postman and API testing (e.g., Rest Assured)
  • Browser Stack
• Strong experience in Java/Kotlin, Swift
  , as well as its usage under a CI/CD pipeline.
• Ability to work in an agile environment, engaged in Scrum
  .
• Ability to work in an autonomous, self‑responsible and self‑organised way.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English
  .

• Knowledge with Bitbucket.
• Experience with AI‑assisted development and modern SDLC tooling:
  • Tools like Git Hub Copilot / Copilot Chat
  • Applying AI for code generation, refactoring, test automation, and documentation
  • Using AI to accelerate debugging, prototyping, and architectural decisions

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% re’s an option to work for 20 days abroad in approved countries too.

We offer development opportunities that help you shape your own career path, excellent training and support, wellbeing offers, subsidised transport or bike leasing, plus 20% discount across all our products. 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.