At IKEA, we aim to make healthy and sustainable choices affordable and accessible for all. To make that happen, we need people with imagination. People who know that everyone has a right to feel at home. People who share our vision of a better everyday life. Together we’ll innovate the future of life at home through data, technology, retail and home furnishing know-how. We need future architects, down-to-earth data scientists, unboxed engineers, cyber guardians, common sense makers and more! Are you one of them?

As Quality Engineer, you bring all your knowledge and experience to deliver high quality digital solutions that provide business value to our consumers. You will be part of a team that establish and drives the common software development platform in a hybrid cloud model. You will provide direction, expertise and produce testing solutions in an ever-changing world of technology. Everything that can be automated must be automated, and the earlier in the development phase you start to think and act quality the better.

The ideal candidate needs to be able to provide QA leadership and guidance at the same time as getting your hands dirty getting project and products delivered, while working in a collaborative and team-oriented environment;

• Provide QA technical leadership and direction for the development teams by leading testing efforts across sprint teams
• Work closely with development teams and continuously make sure that quality and automation is at the heart of what we think and do
• Continue to stay current by identifying, researching and exploring industry-standard QA strategies, toolsets and other recommended best practices
• Create better and more robust automated testing solutions. Serve as a subject matter expert by realizing a maintainable test automation solution, ensuring test scripts adhere to coding standards (and vice versa)
• Be an advocate of quality assurance and lead continuous improvement initiatives.

To be successful in this role you need to:

• Have solid leadership experience and a strong belief in the IKEA leadership approach
• Be passionate about deliver high quality software and a passion of bringing together people, process and tools to successfully get there
• Be curious, eager to find better ways and have the ability to bring people together to develop good practices and drive continuous improvement.
• Be brave to challenge the present with a vision and plan for the future
• Be knowledgeable in test development and test automation, where cloud native, micro service architecture and CI/CD is a natural part of you experience
• Have experience in developing and running continuous testing projects and the understanding of what that requires from an organization
• You actively acquire new knowledge, skills and champions new methods, with an always up to date understanding of what good looks like.

This is a fulltime role (40 hours per week) based in Malmö, Sweden or Delft, Netherlands.

We want to understand the why! Tell us, as part of your application, why you think you would be a good fit for this role. Applications without a motivation letter will not be taken into consideration. 29:th of March 2022 is the closing date to apply for this role. If you have questions regarding the process, you're welcome to connect with Lisen Götze (People & Culture) at [email protected].

Please note that internal candidates will be taken into consideration first. 

About IKEA  

At IKEA, we do things a little different. We think, differently. Act, differently. And work differently as well. We like to break things. Like rules. And then make things. Like music-playing lamps. And beds disguised as sofas. Even plantballs that help us look after our planet. It’s all part of our vision - to create a better everyday life for the many. And it’s been keeping our co-workers going for over 75 years. By 2030, we hope to help millions more look forward to going home. Maybe you can help us.

Creating long term success for IKEA, together (Business Transformation)  
We want to become an even more affordable, sustainable and accessible home furnishing retailer in an omni-channel reality. We bring business and data & technology together to improve how we work and meet customers, and enable us to focus on creating value. So we can continuously improve and scale IKEA, together with our partners and the many people.  

IKEA Shared Data & Technology builds up, delivers, serves and supports shared data and technology for the IKEA value chain. Together we build a digital foundation to enable our core business partners and franchisees to work more efficiently and create a rewarding customer experience in an omnichannel world. 

At IKEA we believe that we’re better when we’re physically together for collaboration, dialogues and conversations. We believe in the power of human interactions; the informal chats, the energy, belonging and creativity generated by people being in the same place. Our approach is that we spend most of our time in the IKEA workplace and with flexibility to work from home when relevant. 

Another thing fuelling our success is our values-based culture. While we are unique individuals with endless differences, something we share is our commitment to lead by example, work together, find better ways and to get things done. We believe in life-long learning, where we all play a part in helping each other (and our business) grow.  

Read more about us at https://about.ikea.com  

For data, tech and digital roles, read more at ikea.com/tastethefuture