(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)

Associate Quality Engineer (Java)

(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)

About the role

As part of Kingfisher’s Engineering Centre in Krakow, we are expanding our teams dedicated to Castorama Polska – one of the country’s most recognized DIY retail brands. These teams will be shaping the future of retail by building and evolving Castorama’s mobile app, e-commerce platform, and the back‑office systems that power store operations across Poland. If you join us, you will not just be writing code – you will be directly influencing how millions of customers shop, browse, and interact with their local Castorama stores. From launching a new generation of mobile apps to streamlining in‑store tech, your work will have a real, visible impact in your own backyard.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize automation test scripts, ensuring adherence to best practices and seamless integration into the CI/CD pipeline. Facilitate skill development in automation where necessary.
• Design and execute manual test cases for scenarios not covered by automation.
• Ability to conduct front‑end, back‑end, API, integration, and regression tests to validate system functionality, performance, and stability.
• Log, track, and prioritize defects, ensuring timely fixes and accurate documentation.
• Provide input on testing scope, complexity, and effort during estimation and planning sessions.
• Manage the entire testing lifecycle, ensuring full coverage and maintaining quality standards within the Engineering Squad.
• Present test results and insights to stakeholders in "Show & Tell" sessions, highlighting product readiness and quality.
• Resolve testing challenges efficiently, continuously improving processes.

Skills and experience

• Knowledge of Java for test automation
• Experience writing automated tests using Selenium and Cucumber, nice to have experience with Selenide
• Practical experience in manual testing, including regression and smoke testing
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments (e.g. GitLab pipelines, Docker)
• General understanding of test automation strategies for web applications
• Basic awareness of performance testing and tools such as Gatling and Lighthouse
• Ability to create and maintain simple test suites
• Understanding of fundamental software quality principles and Agile practices
• Experience collaborating with developers and product teams
• Good communication and problem‑solving skills
• Good command of English (written and spoken)

Benefits

• Up to 12,500 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30‑minute lunch break included in the 8‑hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co‑financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co‑financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

Child Insurance

Life insurance at Generali financed by the employer.

Sports Card

Medicover sports card (Fit&More package).

Courses

Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co‑financing studies and certification.

Life Assurance

Life insurance at Generali financed by the employer.

Bonus

Opportunity to earn annual bonus that aligns to work level of role.

Parking

Parking spaces and LOTOS card.

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

Co‑financing of monthly tickets.

Transport Discount

Co‑financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow (50% discount).

Our Behaviours

At Kingfisher, we are united by our 6 core behaviours

Be customer focused

Constantly improving our customer experience

Acting with humanity and care

Be curious

Thriving on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

Be inclusive

Acting inclusively in diverse teams to achieve together

Be agile

Working with trust, pace and agility

Be accountable

Championing the plan to deliver results and growth

Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.

Development and progression is a high priority at Kingfisher, I’ve always felt well supported.

I’m proud to work for Kingfisher, I’ve had great opportunities that have enabled me to contribute to an exciting forward‑thinking company.

Training & Development

There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.

Conversations with senior leaders

You’ll be able to have regular conversations with managers about personal development and gain a better understanding about what you want to do from your career by how to achieve it.

Resources and tools to help you grow

Improving without instruments to help you learn is near impossible. That’s why we make sure you have everything at your fingertips to find exactly what you need to keep growing.

Initiatives that measure development

With plans that ask you what you want to achieve and when you want to achieve them by, tracking progress and keeping development at the front‑of conversation is easy.

Find your path

The scale of group functions within Kingfisher is huge. That means you have the chance to build different career paths within multiple areas of the organisation.

Sharing is caring

We aren’t selfish here at Kingfisher. Whatever your level of experience, you’ll work with colleagues who are always welcoming and ready to share their knowledge whenever you need it.

Reach for the stars

So your ambitions are high? Good thing we have opportunities to find experiences in line with more senior roles and responsibilities. Here, you can evolve your career, no matter your level.

Why Kingfisher

We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?

Application Process

What to expect from our application process...

Step 1: Application

Send in your application via our Kingfisher Careers website.

Step 2: Review

A member of the Talent Acquisition team will then review your application let you know if you have progressed to the next stage of the process.

Step 3: Interview 1

You’ll then have a telephone interview/one to one conversation with a recruiter.

Step 4: Interview 2

As you progress, you’ll be invited to attend a face to face or virtual interview.

Step 5: Feedback

Your recruiter will be in contact with feedback and, if successful, the details of your job offer!