Job Description
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Sainsburys Tech - Senior Engineer
Why join us
At our multi-channel, multi-brand business, we're thrilled to offer you the opportunity to join our innovative team working with one of the most exciting and complex data sets in the country. As a Senior Engineer (Test), you'll be part of a collaborative and inclusive environment where we encourage curiosity, experimentation, and real-world problem-solving. With over 1.2 billion transactions annually, our work directly impacts millions of customers across the UK. You'll have the chance to utilise cutting-edge technologies and develop scalable, high-performance products that enhance customer experiences and drive efficiency. As a progressive and passionate member of our engineering community, you'll have the freedom to challenge the status quo, mentor fellow engineers, and contribute to our ongoing success while continuously fostering your own personal and professional growth.
What you'll do
As a Senior Testing Engineer in the Content Experiences team, you will be working closely with both UI services and a headless content management platform, to create, deliver and display rich content journeys across multiple brands and platforms.
This is a great opportunity to define, lead and deliver on a test strategy that seeks to progress our automation testing capabilities, while supporting SCRUM sprint ticket delivery. As a result, the successful candidate would need to be able to demonstrate confidence in delivering multiple functional tests (API, e2e, regression), using languages such as Java / Kotlin and Groovy script. Great communication, stakeholder collaboration and time management skills are essential.
Your duties would include designing automation scripts, finding solutions for expanding our testing capabilities, and working closely with the wider development team to deliver shared projects; you'll need to have experience in programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, or test scripting languages.
· Demonstrable experience, knowledge and understanding of Automation Testing within modern software development
· Development and execution of automated tests using existing and new frameworks eg, Cypress, Chromatic, WebdriverIO
· Convert manual test cases into reliable, repeatable automated tests
· Drive improvement in the automated testing within the release process
· Help ensure development stories have testable Acceptance Criteria
· Execute tests, monitored data, and present results
· Knowledge of API testing and tools
· Identify appropriate information on defects found during test execution and prioritise accordingly
· Develop scripting (Groovy) to gain rich information on content types and coverage
· Participate in ongoing process improvement
Who you are
The role requires someone confident with driving change as the expert in test engineering within the team. Candidates must bring energy, self-motivation and have a pro-active approach.
Essential:
· 5 year commercial experience in Automated testing or related role
· Experience of building frameworks from scratch
· Experience of creating automated API schema testing
· Development of automated tests using common frameworks including Cypress and Chromatic
· Test case creation and documentation from User Story & Acceptance Criteria
· Familiar with agile software development especially SCRUM
· Good communication skills
· Concisely able to write and maintain technical documentation
Desirable:
· Experience with Github CICD actions/workflows
· Experience with Jira & Confluence for ticket/documentation support
· Experience of working with a Content Management System (CMS), preferably headless
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).