Software Test Engineer

As our
Software Test Engineer
, you will help ensure that every release of the heyOBI App delivers a reliable, intuitive, and high-quality customer experience. Initially, your primary focus will be
hands-on manual
and
exploratory testing
while working closely with our product and engineering teams during active feature development.

As our quality engineering capabilities mature, your role will gradually shift towards designing, implementing, and maintaining
automated test
suites that enable fast, reliable, and scalable software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Manual & Exploratory Testing:
  Perform hands-on functional, regression and exploratory testing of our mobile applications (iOS & Android) and backend services. Identify usability issues, edge cases and unexpected application behaviour before they reach production.Validate new features throughout the development lifecycle.
• Defect Analysis:
  Investigate, reproduce and document defects with sufficient technical detail to enable efficient resolution. Analyze logs, network traffic and API responses to isolate root causes whenever possible.
• Test Automation:
  Gradually design, develop and maintain automated test suites for critical user journeys and regression scenarios. Contribute to establishing automation frameworks, coding standards and best practices. Continuously increase automated test coverage as part of our CI/CD pipeline.
• Collaboration:
  Work closely with Software Engineers, Product Owners and Designers throughout the development lifecycle. Support developers during feature implementation and validate fixes quickly. Help define acceptance criteria and test strategies for new features.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency through automation and better tooling. Help evolve our quality engineering practices towards a modern, automation-first approach.

Benefits

• Motivizer Benefits Platform
  to choose and manage all your benefits in one place. You receive a budget (550 PLN monthly). You can choose
  medical care package, meal tickets, sports cards
  (we have Multisport and on preferential terms, we have membership cards to one of the most popular Gyms),
  cinema tickets, shop vouchers, discounts and many more.
• Language Courses
  – you'll have access to a multi-language learning platform enabling you to practice your language skills and learn new ones!
• Regular and systematic further
  training opportunities - both internally
  and from
  external providers.
  We support your ongoing learning and development.
• Cooperation within an
  internal community
  is our everyday reality. We have
  networking events, coding challenges, and company parties
  for different occasions.

Qualifications

• Completed university degree
  in
  Computer Science
  , Data Science, Mathematics or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in software testing within agile software development teams.
• Strong
  hands-on experience
  with
  manual
  and
  exploratory testing
  .
• Initial experience with
  test automation
  frameworks such as
  Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Selenium
  or similar.
• Programming experience in TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python or C# sufficient to
  develop
  and
  maintain automated tests
  .
• Experience with
  REST API testing
  using
  Postman
  ,
  Bruno
  ,
  Chales Proxy
  or similar tools.
• Familiarity with
  CI/CD pipelines
  and version control systems
  (Git)
  is a plus.
• Excellent coordination and
  communication skills
  . You know how to talk to developers as well as business stakeholders to get things resolved quickly.
  Fluent communication
  skills in
  English
  and
  Polish
  .
• Openness to work in
  hybrid model
  and visit the
  Katowice
  office.

About OBI Smart Technologies

WHO ARE WE:

We are a joint venture between OBI and Reply Group, responsible for co-designing, building and operating mission-critical digital platforms for commerce, customer service, and omnichannel retail.

OUR MISSION:

"
We unite technology leadership with deep retail vision to implement standardized processes and scalable digital products that drive efficient support for one of Europe’s largest DIY retailers. Leveraging proven best practices, we advance the internationalization of products and the digital mindset of our partners, delivering consistent and business-critical solutions to support the targets of our customer.
"