Junior QA Engineer (MongoDB, Kafka en GraphQL)

Join Our Product Data Services Team as a Junior QA Engineer

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

What do you bring?

• Passie voor data
• Sterke tech skills
• Focus op kwaliteit

Become part of our Product Data Services team and help build a resilient, scalable data backbone powered by Kotlin microservices that delivers mission critical product data to over 1,100 Albert Heijn stores! Delivering great software is even more exciting when millions of people rely on it every day!

When you become our second QA engineer on our team you will take a big role ensuring we deliver quality and that our data reaches exactly where it’s needed, like every electronic shelf label in all our Albert Heijn stores. Imagine next time you walk into an Albert Heijn store with a friend, you’ll be able to point at a shelf and say, That data is there real-time because of the software I contributed to!

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• You design, build and maintain automated tests that help us catch issues early and deliver confidently at scale;
• You collaborate closely with developers, product owners and data engineers to continuously improve quality, performance and reliability of our systems;
• You are passionate about learning, experimenting with new tools and approaches, and sharing your insights to raise the team’s QA maturity;
• You play a key role in guaranteeing that millions of customers see the right product data and prices in real time, every single day!

Your new team and office. Our team has been working together for about three years, and we thrive in a hybrid work environment that offers the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration and a good work-life balance. You’ll usually find us at our office in Zaandam (right next to the train station) one or two days a week, where we schedule our most important team sessions.

Our team is passionate about their craft and dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. They aren’t afraid to ask for what they need to grow, and they go the extra mile to support one another and build great solutions together through brainstorming sessions and pair programming.

Together with your team of Product Owner and Backend Developers, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and give our customers accessibility to healthy food more easily available for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital and tech domains—a community of diverse individuals who share a common goal: to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital and tech. And that includes investing in your career!

What we offer. At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week):

• An annual salary up to 70k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your experience;
• 45 days of paid leave to enjoy your well-deserved holidays: 25.5 regular vacation days and 19.5 ADV days. Enjoy!
• Flexible working hours;
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 times more than you as an employee;
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies;
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year;
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits;
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact: We believe in building a team where everyone feels a true sense of belonging—a place where you can be yourself, feel safe, and know that your contributions are valued.

If you’re new to the quality engineering job market, don’t worry if you don’t meet every requirement below! What truly matters to us is your eagerness to learn and your problem-solving approach to mastering automated software testing. We’d love to see your resume! What we’re looking for:

• A quality mindset (you intuitively know where the bugs could be hiding) and eagerness to sharpen your skills in testing using tools like RestAssured or Playwright to write strong suite of automated tests;
• Curiosity about microservices and hands-on experience with Java or Kotlin. If you're new to Kotlin but have Java experience, you'll learn on the job!
• Basic knowledge of REST, APIs, GraphQL, CI/CD, cloud, and Agile/Scrum;
• Big bonus if you have experience with MongoDB, Kafka, Kubernetes, Grafana or Prometheus;
• You enjoy teamwork and making things happen;
• Strong communication skills in English to collaborate effectively with the team;
• You’re tech savvy, pro-active and have a big passion for tech.

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀
Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.
The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission?
Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition.

What matters to us?

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together, we help people eat well, save time and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people and the world around us.

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
Robert Němec Solution Architecture Manager

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
Christy Elgee Manager of Cyber Defense and Operations, Ahold Delhaize USA

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”