QA Engineer(Kotlin, Webdriver IO, Appium, Playwright, Karate)

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Are you passionate about quality and eager to make an impact on products used by millions? Join the Albert Heijn Store Operations team as a QA Engineer and help us deliver reliable, high-quality software for our web, mobile and backend platforms. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in testing our services, extending and maintaining our end-to-end (e2e) test automation repositories, and ensuring our customers enjoy seamless experiences every day.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain automated tests to catch issues early and deliver confidently at scale
• Conduct manual exploratory and feature testing when needed, ensuring comprehensive coverage and uncovering edge cases
• Contribute to the evolution of our test automation strategy and champion best practices across the team
• Collaborate closely with developers and product owners to continuously improve the quality, performance, and reliability of our systems
• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD processes, and agile ceremonies as an active member of our engineering team
• Play a key role in guaranteeing that millions of customers see the right product data and prices in real time, every single day

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with one or more of the following: WebdriverIO, Appium, Playwright, Karate
• Experience in Kotlin or TypeScript
• Solid understanding of test automation principles and frameworks
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and code repository/review tools (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)
• Hands-on experience with manual exploratory and feature testing is highly valued
• Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured) is a plus
• Experience with test management tools (e.g., TestRail, Zephyr) is an advantage
• A quality-driven mindset and eagerness to learn and experiment with new tools and approaches
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; you thrive in a team environment and enjoy making things happen
• Proactive, tech-savvy, and passionate about delivering high-quality software
• Experience working in an agile software development environment
• Located in The Netherlands

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud-based testing platforms (e.g., BrowserStack, Sauce Labs)
• Familiarity with Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) or Context Driven Testing
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of performance and security testing

What we offer
At AH Technology we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week): 

• An annual salary up to €70K including holiday allowance but excluding a profit share. Depending on your level of seniority and experience
• A minimum of 25,5 days paid vacation, with personal budget for an added 19.5 days extra days off 
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – TOP Academy
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 6 times more than you as an employee
• A travel allowance for traveling to and from Zaandam or a NS-business card to travel from home to work
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits
• A company laptop and telephone

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀  Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.
The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Ready to contribute to our mission?
Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process.

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