Quality Automation Engineer

Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture!

At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table.

As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world's favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

We're part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where "respect", "ownership", "growth" and "better together" values thrive.

If you're passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

Discover life at TheFork

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will join our Engineering organization within a dedicated Quality Engineering team of around 10 passionate engineers.

In this role, you won't just write test scripts-you will build the platform, tooling, and infrastructure that power quality across all our engineering squads. You'll be working in a truly international environment, collaborating daily with talented developers and engineers across Western and Eastern Europe.

If you have a strong software development background and love building tools that make other engineers faster and more efficient, this is the place for you.

What you will do:

• Build tools, not just tests: Design, build, and scale state-of-the-art test automation frameworks and internal tooling (our core stack: Playwright + TypeScript).
• Own the ecosystem: Act as the technical architect for our entire test ecosystem-owning repositories, design patterns, and long-term codebase health.
• Empower the engineering org: Enable developers to write fast, reliable tests by providing clean abstractions, SDKs, utility libraries, and reusable components.
• Shape test architecture: Drive key engineering decisions around test layering, fixture design, data isolation, and environment stability.
• Improve system testability: Partner with feature teams to architect highly testable APIs, frontends, and data pipelines-without having to write their feature tests for them.
• Master CI/CD & Performance: Own and optimize modern test pipelines (Jenkins), ruthlessly cutting down execution times and eliminating flakiness.
• Solve systemic problems: Hunt down root causes of instability and slow feedback loops to implement permanent structural fixes rather than quick patches.
• Innovate with AI: Experiment with and integrate AI-driven testing tools and LLMs to push our testing capabilities and developer productivity forward.
• Elevate engineering standards: Mentor engineers, define quality gates/metrics, and champion a modern Quality Engineering culture across the company.

Who you are:

• 2 to 5 years of hands-on experience as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or Quality Engineer with a strong focus on tooling, infrastructure, and framework design.
• Solid Software Engineering background: Whether you started as a Software Developer or built a strong coding foundation in QA, you write clean, scalable, and maintainable code (TypeScript / JavaScript experience required).
• Framework expertise: Proven experience designing and architecting automation frameworks from scratch or at scale, ideally using Playwright.
• Deep architectural understanding: Mastery of test design patterns, the test pyramid, data management strategies, and test isolation.
• CI/CD mastery: Strong experience configuring and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) with an obsession for fast feedback loops.
• API & Systems knowledge: Comfortable testing REST and GraphQL interfaces and designing reusable API client layers.
• Developer Advocate mindset: Passionate about cross-team collaboration, technical mentorship, and making developers' lives easier.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken) to collaborate effectively in an international environment across Europe.

You Can Impress With These Additions :

• Dual background / Dev experience: Prior experience as a Backend (Node.js preferred) or Full-stack Engineer.
• Platform Engineering mindset: Experience building internal developer platforms, test infrastructure, or custom developer CLI tools.
• Playwright power-user: Deep knowledge of custom reporters, advanced fixtures, parallelization strategies, and plugin development.
• Modern Infra & Observability: Hands-on experience with Docker, ephemeral environments, dynamic test data generation, and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing).
• Quality Gates & Governance: Experience with tools like SonarQube / SonarCloud and setting up automated quality gates in decentralized engineering teams.
• AI Enthusiast: Practical exposure to AI-assisted testing or integrating LLMs into dev/test workflows.

What we offer you:

An awesome team

A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)

️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely)

Competitive fixed salary and bonus

Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)

International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe

Highly inclusive working environment

️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc

Continuous learning and development programs

Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey

Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)

Health insurance covered by the company

Financial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships, or marriage

Transport allowance

Health insurance fully covered by the company

Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee

Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area

Team building events

All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately.

We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.

TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application, interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly.

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