Senior Test Engineer (AdTech) - DevOps

What are you looking for?

What do we offer?

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

What do you bring?

• A team player
• Passion for your expertise
• True tech-savvy

How you can
make a difference

For our Ad-Tech Cluster we are looking for a lead Test Expert (Playwright, Postman, DevOps, Kafka)! In this role, you are responsible for setting up our test strategy and guarding the test quality for our Digital Media Instore DevOps team. This team is responsible for all the advertisement screens in our retail stores. Retail media is booming! We’re building a cutting-edge platform to support all Ahold brands in Europe with a comprehensive retail media suite. Get to work in a high traffic environment on a SaaS solution that will be utilized by approximately 15 different brands across Europe.

This is how you will reinvent food retail:

• Take the lead in setting up a sustainable test automation strategy (manual and automation).
• You bring quality awareness to the table and are dedicated to creating an environment where testing is instinctive for our developers, rather than a mere obligation.
• You know what it takes to increase a higher test coverage and understand the need for test automation.
• You have experience with exploratory testing and are able to increase confidence in a solid platform.
• Take a hands-on approach in implementing QA processes throughout every step of the software development lifecycle.
• You take (shared) responsibility for the quality of user stories on our backlog.
• Contribute to the QA guild within our cluster and eager to share experiences and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams within Ad-Tech to align on the most effective QA approach for shared product areas, ensuring quality standards across team boundaries.

Your new team and office.

In the Ad-Tech cluster, we are developing and implementing a retail media SaaS solution for all Ahold Delhaize brands in Europe. Retail media involves selling advertising space on our digital touchpoints or in-store. Examples include:

• Promoting brands like Tony Chocolonely when customers search for chocolate on our website or app.
• Displaying advertisements on big screens inside and outside stores.
• Featuring supplier-branded banners on homepage or category pages.
• Exploring new territories as retail media is a rapidly growing field.
• Your team, Digital Media Instore, is responsible for all the advertisements on the big screens in and outside the stores. A challenging technical set-up, spread over Europe, that needs high quality software. The team exists of 3 backenders, a frontender and one junior tester.

Our cluster, part of the Customer Tech Platform, is responsible for a flexible, cost-efficient, high-end retail media suite with extensive functionality and a growing number of brand users. We have a scale-up vibe with 5 teams and counting. A mature agile approach (no frameworks) helps you excel and highlight your skills.

Together with your team 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! Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home as well as in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

We think it’s important to be part of an high-belonging team; a team where you can be yourself and feel safe, accepted and appreciated. For this job we are preferably looking for someone who brings diversity in our team, in the widest possible sense. Someone who is a great addition to our team by bringing other ideas to the table. Don’t check all the boxes? Don’t worry, we probably don’t either 😉. Don’t hesitate to apply if you think you are up for the challenge, we’re happy to have a look at your resume!

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 105K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience;
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You’re the end boss!;
• Flexible working hours;
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 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

• You raise your voice when necessary and bring your opinion to the table. Assertiveness and a pro-active attitude is a must for this role!
• Solid and proven experience as a Test Engineer both automation as manual. You ensure quality of the product as a whole.
• You have a good understanding of programming principles, code structure etc. As such you can participate in tech conversations on the same level as the developers.
• Have affinity and knowledge of backend systems (Kotlin/Java).
• Have good interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders in a complex environment.
• Strong communication skills in English.

Bonus points for:

• Relevant experience in Retail Media.
• Experience with hardware testing.
• Experience with Typescript / Javascript.
• Experience with Playwright, Kafka, CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions), API testing (Postman/RESTAssured).
• Experience with Tizen.

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 an 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.” Colleague, Role

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me." Colleague, Role

Keep growing

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

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