Senior Test Automation Engineer

As the world's pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe's largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

We are looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our "Quick Commerce Shops" team. Contribute to the creation of our next-generation platform, that works on expanding our amazing delivery to new products such as groceries, pharmaceuticals, flowers, and more. The team mission is to ensure highly available service for external partners for order transmission, inventory updates, and deals/promotions.If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to deliver solutions and hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin 

Your mission:

• Ensure the highest quality for our partner-facing integration team, directly impacting partner satisfaction and seamless business operations through rigorous testing (functional, regression, integration) of external APIs and their connections to internal services.

• Develop and implement thorough test plans, requirements, and user scenarios for external APIs and their connections to internal services, ensuring partner satisfaction and smooth business operations.

• Plan, prioritize, and estimate all testing activities, with a strong emphasis on automating repetitive tests.

• Configure and prepare test environments and data sets for rigorous and effective testing.

• Coordinate and align testing efforts with other teams to ensure a collaborative QA process.

• Take the lead in troubleshooting and quickly resolving any issues reported by partners and our connected teams

• Create and maintain clear documentation for processes, bugs, and testing tools to support ongoing improvement.

Your heroic skills:

• 5 years of experience as a Test Automation Engineer in a large company, ideally with a multi-national user/ business base.

• Experienced in creating clear test plans and user scenarios, reviewing requirements for testability, and ensuring QA procedures are followed.

• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium or Playwright.

• Strong programming skills (e.g., Java/JavaScript) 

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with various API testing tools (e.g., REST Assured, Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, Insomnia).

• Experience in testing applications built on a Microservices architecture, understanding how different services interact and the challenges involved in testing distributed systems.

• Ability to design, develop, and execute comprehensive API test cases, including functional, performance, security, and integration tests.

• Experienced in designing, developing, and executing comprehensive API tests (functional, performance, security, integration), including complex integration scenarios between external APIs and internal services.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes and experience integrating automated tests into build and deployment pipelines.

• Familiarity with tools and practices for monitoring API performance, errors, and logs in production and staging environments to quickly identify and diagnose issues.

• Eagerness to work in a fast-paced, fault-tolerant, agile environment on cross-functional teams.

• Strong skills in validating data consistency and integrity across different services and databases after API interactions including familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Basic understanding of API security vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP API Security Top 10) and experience in performing basic security tests.

• Ability to make independent decisions and taking ownership

• You are pragmatic who understands what is needed to get things done in a collaborative manner.

Nice to have:

• Building testing environments with Kubernetes.

• Experience building testing frameworks from scratch.

• Understanding of business processes in e-commerce environments. 

• Mobile testing automation.

What's in it for you: 

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you're in good shape, then we're in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you're in good shape, then we're in good shape

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we'll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

• Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.