Quality Automation Engineer

<p><strong>Join our Movement and Champion Restaurant Culture! 💚</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table. <br>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.</p> <p>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. <br>If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.<br><br>👉<a href="https://www.careers.thefork.com"> Discover life at TheFork</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and evolve test automation frameworks and internal tooling (Playwright + TypeScript as primary stack)</li> <li>Act as owner of the test ecosystem, including repositories, architecture, and long-term maintainability</li> <li>Define and enforce testing standards, guidelines, and best practices across engineering teams</li> <li>Enable developers to write effective tests by providing abstractions, utilities, and reusable components</li> <li>Drive test architecture decisions (structure, layering, fixtures, data handling, isolation strategies)</li> <li>Collaborate with teams to improve testability of systems (APIs, frontend, data flows) without directly owning feature tests</li> <li>Own and optimize CI/CD test pipelines (e.g., Jenkins), focusing on speed, reliability, and scalability</li> <li>Identify systemic issues (flakiness, instability, slow feedback loops) and implement structural solutions, not patches</li> <li>Design and maintain test data management and environment orchestration strategies</li> <li>Define, implement, and evolve quality gates and metrics (coverage, reliability, execution time, signal quality)</li> <li>Support teams in debugging complex failures by providing observability and diagnostic tooling</li> <li>Explore and integrate AI-driven testing capabilities to improve productivity and test robustness</li> <li>Mentor engineers and promote a quality engineering mindset across the organization</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p> <p><strong>You Must Meet These Critical Qualifications </strong>(Mandatory requirements to be listed here)</p> <ul> <li>Strong experience as an SDET / Quality Engineer with a focus on frameworks and tooling, not just tes