Senior Quality Engineer (WCMS Team)

Overview

Senior Quality Engineer (WCMS Team)

 (Hybrid, Cluj, Romania)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. 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 are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Cluj. 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 encourage new 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:  

• • Annual performance bonus
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Private medical coverage (Regina Maria – Priority Plan)
  • Option to extend coverage to your spouse or children at no extra cost
  • Life insurance (Metropolitan Life)
  • Eyeglasses vouchers
  • 7Card fitness membership (co-funded)
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning, LEO Learning, and Bookster
  • Fresh fruit bar and premium coffee
  • Modern, collaborative workspace
  • Hybrid work model
  • Flexible working schedule
  • 21 days of annual leave + extra days based on tenure (up to 25 days)
  • Additional days off when public holidays fall on weekends
  • Paid leave for special life events
  • Meal vouchers
  • Gift vouchers (up to 4 per year), offered for occasions like Christmas, Easter, March 8th, and June 1st

What's the job?

Responsibilities:

• Strong understanding of requirements analysis, including identifying acceptance criteria, clarifying ambiguities, and ensuring testability.
• Solid knowledge of the defect lifecycle, including defect reporting, triage, prioritisation, and closure.
• Hands-on experience with test case creation, execution, optimisation, and maintenance throughout the test lifecycle.
• Ability to perform effective root cause analysis and collaborate with engineering teams to prevent defect recurrence.
• Experience in test estimation using various techniques (e.g., WBS, historical data, complexity-based estimation).

Programming & Databases

• Practical experience with Java for test automation.
• Working knowledge of Python for scripting, utilities, or data processing.
• Understanding of PostgreSQL basics, including writing simple queries for validation and test data preparation.

What you'll bring

Required skills:

• Docker for containerised test environments.
• Selenium/Selenide for UI automation.
• RestAssured for API automation.
• Postman for exploratory API testing.
• TestNG for test orchestration and reporting.
• Maven/Gradle for build and dependency management.
• GIT for version control.
• Allure for test reporting and analytics.
• Jenkins / GitLab CI for CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.

Good to Have:

• JIRA for project and defect tracking.
• Xray for test management.
• JMeter for performance testing.
• Kafka for event-driven architecture testing.
• Slf4j / log4j for logging and debugging.
• Lombok for simplifying Java code.