QA Automation Engineer

We are Strawberry. With over 225 hotels, 120 restaurants, 20 spas and more, we create thousands of experiences every day. With urban Comfort Hotel®, warm Quality Hotel™, stylish Clarion Hotel® and cosy Clarion Collection® Hotel and more than 40 unique independent hotels, our guests can pick and choose. Our team of 17 000 passionate individuals from more than 120 countries is what makes up our company – diversity is what makes us grow! Strawberry is built on our core values: energy, courage and enthusiasm.

At Strawberry, were on a quest to redefine the hospitality experience through innovation & technology. In 2023 we launched our new mother brand, Strawberry, and we are transforming from a traditional hotel company to become a universe of offers and experiences towards our guests and customers.

This new journey will result in many new interesting development areas in the upcoming years and an opportunity to influence the companys future. We foster a culture where innovation is welcome, disruptive thinking is encouraged, and sharing ideas is constant. We’re ever-evolving, and we empower all of our associates to bring their individuality, potential, and personality to work.

We are now looking for our new QA Automation Engineer to join the Strawberry Tech team. You will be highly involved in driving quality work in the development to ensure that we deliver high quality products to end-users and our developers alike.

What you will be doing

We’re on an exciting journey of accelerating our test automation efforts for our native apps and web. Our aim is to increase the amount of automated testing, and you will be an integral part of driving this initiative. This role includes actively identifying and preventing bugs by coaching the team in testing strategies and automation, as well as pair-programming tests with the developers, participating in code reviews with team members and of course being involved with the overarching product development. You will work on facilitating automation through infrastructure and tooling, with a high focus on developer experience.

You will work in a cross functional product team, alongside developers, designers and everything in between. You will also work together with other QA automation engineers and testers in the QA chapter initiative, contributing to the company wide quality work.

Who we think you are

We are looking for an experienced software engineer, with a high interest in automation, testing and the infrastructure around it. We believe that you are a driving force behind software quality who will help the team continuously expand this area within Strawberry. You are full of initiative, and you have a great sense of agency, using your creativity to solve problems independently.

Your colleagues would say you

• Know your way around a common testing framework, like Playwright or Cypress.
• Have experience with a general purpose programming language, like Typescript or Java
• Are interested in learning more about cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
• Have a good understanding of software architecture, and how they are designed
• Never stop being curious and love learning about new ways of working.
• Ensure a high bar for quality and reliability within your team
• Coach others to help them develop as engineers
• You don’t just write code; you help to design the overall solution
• Are sought after within your team for help in solving challenging problems
• Your work enables other engineers to be even better
• Work in English with ease (its our company language)

What we can offer

• The opportunity to deliver direct impact and end-user value through modern technology.
• An organization that goes the extra mile, and cares about both people and the environment. Please see this link for more information. https://www.strawberryhotels.com/social-responsibility/
• Exceptional colleagues and an inclusive culture - we love to share and learn from each other.
• A flat organization with trust and autonomy in your work. We support innovation without imposing strict corporate rules.
• Brand new office integrated with one of our newly opened hotels right next to Mall of Scandinavia in Solna.
• There are plenty of perks of having an office at a hotel. These include a buffet breakfast and lunch available every day for a reduced fee (salary subsidy).
• Plenty of social events including smaller gatherings with your team and huge get-togethers with the whole Strawberry family.
• Great benefits. In addition to our collective agreement, we also offer staff discounts and friends & family rates at our 200+ hotels.

Details:

You will be part of a team of fantastic colleagues, and you will report to Maria Lindqvist, Head of QA. The office is our primary work location, but we offer a hybrid working model for a more flexible working life. The HQ in Stockholm will be your base for this position.

Sounds interesting?

Great, because we would love to get to know you too! Bring your individuality and your potential, Strawberry welcomes all! Interviews will be held on a rolling basis, don’t wait to submit your application!