Quality Automation Engineer

About TheFork

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.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and evolve test automation frameworks and internal tooling (Playwright + TypeScript as primary stack)
• Act as owner of the test ecosystem, including repositories, architecture, and long-term maintainability
• Define and enforce testing standards, guidelines, and best practices across engineering teams
• Enable developers to write effective tests by providing abstractions, utilities, and reusable components
• Drive test architecture decisions (structure, layering, fixtures, data handling, isolation strategies)
• Collaborate with teams to improve testability of systems (APIs, frontend, data flows) without directly owning feature tests
• Own and optimize CI/CD test pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), focusing on speed, reliability, and scalability
• Identify systemic issues (flakiness, instability, slow feedback loops) and implement structural solutions, not patches
• Design and maintain test data management and environment orchestration strategies
• Define, implement, and evolve quality gates and metrics (coverage, reliability, execution time, signal quality)
• Support teams in debugging complex failures by providing observability and diagnostic tooling
• Explore and integrate AI-driven testing capabilities to improve productivity and test robustness
• Mentor engineers and promote a quality engineering mindset across the organization

Who You Are

Critical Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience
• Strong experience as an SDET / Quality Engineer with a focus on frameworks and tooling, not just test implementation
• Excellent programming skills in TypeScript / JavaScript
• Proven experience designing and maintaining test frameworks at scale
• Hands-on experience with modern automation tools (Playwright preferred)
• Strong understanding of test architecture patterns (test pyramid, separation of concerns, isolation strategies)
• Experience enabling teams through libraries, SDKs, or shared tooling
• Solid experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins), including pipeline optimization and debugging
• Experience with API testing (REST/GraphQL) and designing reusable testing layers
• Strong problem-solving skills focused on root cause analysis and systemic improvements
• Comfortable working cross-team and acting as a technical reference for quality
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal developer platforms or test platforms
• Deep expertise in Playwright ecosystem (custom reporters, fixtures, plugins, parallelization strategies)
• Experience with GraphQL testing tooling and schema-driven validation
• Familiarity with quality gate systems (e.g., SonarQube / SonarCloud) and defining engineering-wide standards
• Experience with test data platforms (dynamic data generation, seeding, environment control)
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing / LLM-based tooling
• Backend development experience (Node.js preferred)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and ephemeral environments
• Strong understanding of observability (logs, metrics, tracing) applied to test systems
• Experience in organizations where testing is decentralized but governed centrally

What We Offer You

• An awesome team
• A permanent contract
• 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
• International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe
• Highly inclusive working environment
• Lifestyle benefits
• Continuous learning and development programs
• Free access to the Calm app
• Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies
• Health insurance covered by the company
• Financial support for birth, adoption, civil partnerships, or marriage
• Transport allowance
• Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
• Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area
• Team building events

Key skills/competency

• Quality Automation Engineer
• Test Automation Frameworks
• Playwright
• TypeScript
• SDET
• CI/CD
• API Testing
• Systemic Improvements
• Test Architecture
• Quality Engineering Mindset