Position: Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (Netherlands)
Company: Picnic
Experience required: 3y
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Where you fit in**

As one of our QA Engineers, you grab ownership of project quality, grow, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You define test strategies, design test plans, coach your team on quality assurance practices while offering a creative and analytical approach. You feel at home implementing automated tests and display an intricate understanding of how each test fits into a business plan. 

Since we use different stacks at our domain teams, we will provide you with a variety of technical and organizational challenges. So together we can find the best fit for your skillset and ambitions. 

For example, your focus could be on testing and implementing regression automation suites for new user-facing features on mobile applications or web applications. Some of our domain teams would use your experience to set up automated frameworks for our backend services. Or you would need to contribute into data-focused testing to ensure high quality of the scheduling, planning, prediction algorithms.

You’ll be managing individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables while finding yourself fully immersed in an engaging startup culture. We don’t hide what we do. Instead, we open-source with the community that helped us grow. Here’s proof: http://picnic.tech 

We’re open sourcing, so if you require more motivation to apply - check out our page:  http://picnic.tech

**Who you are**
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or any Engineering discipline
- 3+ years of experience with test automation  
- Experience with test automation framework development and support for REST API and with test automation in Java, Python 
- Ability and willingness to work in BDD approach (e.g. Cucumber, Behave) of defining test scenarios
- Understanding of CI/CD test and build automation (or helping with establishing CI/CD pipelines)
- Willingness to supporting Agile team in release processes (e.g. manual acceptance testing, release monitoring)
- Basic knowledge of database queries to setup/configure test data (e.g. SQL, noSQL)
- Fluent in English

**Nice to have**
- Experience with cross-platform (iOS, Android) mobile test automation frameworks like Appium or similar
- Experience with web test automation frameworks like Selenium, Selenoid or similar
- Experience with load and stress testing with tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or Locust 
- Non functional testing: data focused testing (e.g. large data sets preparation for test scenarios, processing of analytics events, integration between systems), load, performance testing setup (tools like JMeter, Gatling, Locust)
- Leadership experience with setting up new QA processes and evaluating new test frameworks

Hungry for more? Check out https://stackshare.io/companies/picnic-technologies for an overview of our tech stack.

**We offer**

Located in Amsterdam, our fun-filled office is the best place for you to focus on your Picnic projects. Equipped with your favorite hardware and surrounded by like-minded people, you’ll grow professionally and personally while enjoying the startup life along the way. We like to keep our 40-hour work-week flexible around here.

Our tech team consists of 20 product teams, which handle tons of innovative projects. Sharing, mentoring and keeping up to date is a must at Picnic: Meetups, webinars, Lunch & Learn sessions, and our very own Tech academy make sure that’s taken care of. Your soft skills will get some attention as well, with tailored training and courses.

Our salaries are market competitive and our pension program will put your mind at ease.

**Relocation package?**
Sure! If you join Picnic from abroad, we’ll cover your trip to Amsterdam, sponsor your Visa, and offer you a month of accommodation while you settle in.

If you are joining us from a country that doesn’t allow traveling to the Netherlands just yet, there's a chance that your onboarding could take place remotely. We had lots of new team members starting their Picnic-journey remotely already, you can have a peek at how it's going via https://bit.ly/3wLuGZv