We are Flink - your online supermarket revolutionising the way you do your grocery shopping. With a wide selection of over 2,400 high-quality products, we aim to deliver to your door within minutes. We put our customers first and ensure all products delivered are fresh and nutritious. In addition to this, we are able to customise our national assortment to be able to offer you unique local products in every city. Our delivery hubs are located in densely populated inner-city locations and we strive to be sustainable by delivering on electric bikes and using packaging that can be recycled. 

Founded by experienced e-commerce professionals and backed by some of the most renowned investors in Europe, we are growing rapidly and have a great hunger to continuously challenge ourselves. We pride ourselves in being an inclusive and equal opportunities employer with a diverse and multicultural team. If you want to be part of this exciting journey… read on!

As a Senior QA Engineer (m/f/d) you will define the testing strategy for the newly developed functionality & develop advanced automation solutions to assure the best product quality. You’ll have a lot of freedom accompanied by ownership to drive us toward the mission to become the most sustainable retailer.

• Act as a key solution-oriented member of a cross-functional agile team in order to provide the best value for stakeholders and our customers.
• Take an active part in influencing the design, UX and product requirements, especially in terms of testability, consistency and completeness. Help to define acceptance criteria for product features.
• Be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process.
• Design, develop and maintain API/Services and UI solutions. Automate test cases using modern technologies. Integrate them into CI/CD pipeline.
• Develop tools to prepare production-like data to be used for other environments.
• Provide a data-driven assessment of the quality of the solutions your team is working on at any period of time. Analyze and prioritize observability improvements.
• Identify, promote and support the adoption of innovative tooling and approaches to drive high-quality product and engineering practices.
• Closely cooperate with the Platform team on the topics of environment creation, monitoring and observability best practices.
• Keep engagement up with a high-speed development process and ongoing deliveries, executing and adjusting your testing activities accordingly.

• Solid knowledge and experience in both functional and non-functional backend testing. 
• Practical experience with UI automation using tools such as Playwright, WebdriverIO, Puppeteer, Selenium WebDriver or similar.
• QA support for end-to-end product or feature development (includes contributing to the acceptance criteria, assessing and flagging risks).
• Understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements in agile environments.
• You are proficient in at least one of the following programming languages: Go, Java, Kotlin, Typescript or JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with CI platforms and deployment pipelines (e.g. Github Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins).
• You make the results of your work visible, understandable and valuable for your team members.
• Ability to dive deep into complex systems and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Ability to make independent decisions and take ownership.
• Demonstrated capability and motivation to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding start-up environment.
• Excellent communication in English.

Bonus points:

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with GCP and/or AWS as well as with Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with common logging, monitoring, alerting tools such as Datadog, Grafana, NewRelic, Prometheus, etc.

• A cool discount off your personal Flink orders, be the first to test out new products! 
• Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses  
• Attractive company pension options 
• Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens
• A unique opportunity to be an early bird and have an impact on our strategy & growth 
• A steep learning curve, the possibility to work in an energised and dynamic team within a fast-paced environment
• For Berlin: A newly renovated and spacious, dog-friendly HQ in the heart of Mitte - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance

It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.