Business Tech is a new modern agile product organization within the larger H&M group. We are a large team of small and cross-competent teams each owning a product end-to-end with a mission to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations. You will be able to try out your creative and innovative ideas – and have an impact on how we shape the future of fashion and design. 

During 2022, we will continue our agile transformation to further advance our ability to continuously surprise and delight our customers and accelerate our business – by releasing the power of people, data and technology. With focus on the customer and our strong values, we explore new ways to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful and sustainable impact all over the world, and we want you to take a leading role in the transformation.  

We explore new ways of working, have a customer-focused mindset, embrace our strong values, and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world. 

Are you passionate about test automation engineering with modern software development technologies? Are you interested in leading the automation community? Are you inspired designing next gen technology to enable and simplify test automation?  Great! We are looking for a Test Automation Architect to join one of our core engineering team.

We are part of the Developer Experience area in the Core Engineering domain with a vision to “Empower all product teams to continuously deliver software with high quality at speed” and a mission to develop engineering excellence, and to grow a learning and collaborative community.

Regardless of area, tools or languages, a Test Automation Architect (Test Automation Lead Engineer) who can design, standardize, and review solutions that fit our technical landscape and could be adopted easily by product teams developing solutions for our customers. In the role you are also expected to apply modern engineering practices such as Cloud infrastructure, Identity management, Version control to develop scalable and community solutions. You should be keen on AI/ML/RPA to take our test automation experience to a new level. Develop a KPI driven environment to visualize and react to test automation requirements

The Test Automation Architect believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. We believe that you are focused on value creation, growth and serving stakeholders with full ownership and accountability. Developing high quality engineering resulting in higher business value to the organization

Our journey will lead to something new and exciting - we will test, fail, learn and grow. You are an important player in this transformation; therefore, we believe you are flexible and able to work in an environment that is not fully formalized.

As a Test Automation Architect, you have an entrepreneurial mindset, are excited about creating something new and challenge the status quo. You are observant, analytical and focused on the value the teams create and the enablement needs they have. You can speak and inspire on Test Automation anytime. Other important skills needed in this role are to keep it simple, creative, stay humble, open to new ideas and actively contribute to discussions

You will focus on the following responsibilities in our fast-moving environment:

• Design & review test automation architecture for different tech stacks 
• Guide the Test Enablement team in development of test automation frameworks to support product teams
• Advisor to stakeholders on test automation strategy for complex tech landscapes, setting direction for long term automation plan, bringing in best practices and enablement
• Lead test automation forum and engage the test automation community
• Review new technologies available in market to constantly improve test automation toolset in Business Tech
• Design & develop solutions to build and visualize test automation KPIs
• Engage with platform teams, our tech moves, enterprise architects and lead engineers to adapt & integrate test automation technology in best way to support one click DevSecOps practices and culture
• Support in developing data-driven insights on test automation on Business Tech enterprise and product team levels
• Support in new initiatives in Test Enablement to resolve test data & environments challenges

You have

• Bachelor’s or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics or Business-related field with 10+ years in IT
• Hands-on experience with scripting in Python, JavaScript, C#
• Experience working with different Unit, API & UI test automation frameworks, preferably open source
• Experience in development of test automation in an Agile way of working, working closely with full-stack developers
• Thorough understanding and hands-on experience in developing and enhancing automation testing frameworks and guiding users to adopt and implement effective use of them
• Strong conceptual knowledge on TDD & BDD
• Exposure to Robot Framework (Py), Selenium, JavaScript frameworks, TestNG, XUnit, Appium, Browser stack, Postman, TOSCA
• Experience working with Azure Infra & Azure DevOps/GitHub Enterprise for developing Test Automation solutions
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Test Automation Lead Engineer or similar
• Experience in leading communities of practice and developing best practices in test automation development
• Excellent written & communication skills
• Bonus to have a background in e-commerce & supply chain management

At H&M we have a strong, value-driven culture characterized by believing in people, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit. Here you can be yourself and grow with significant opportunities to influence and make a difference. With the right mindset and ambition, you’ll find plenty of room to grow. We welcome your application regardless of gender, age, gender expressions, sexual orientation, disabilities, religious beliefs, origin or background. 

We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.  

There are endless opportunities to grow, regardless of whether you are interested in developing functional depth or business acumen. Just let your skills, ambition and imagination drive you. 

This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm (Marievik). Please apply with your CV as soon as possible. If you have any questions about the recruitment, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner [email protected]. We are looking forward to your application!