Test Engineer (12M FTC) - Digital & Payments

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 to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Why join us

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s exactly what’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s Tech.

Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The volume of data, transactions and customer touchpoints involved. It’s why we operate a truly modern software engineering environment—because we have to.

We’ve made serious investment in our Tech Academy, engineering standards and principles, and ways of working. We continuously iterate, learn and experiment, using Agile, Scrum and XP to deliver meaningful outcomes. From AI and personalisation to reusable platforms and cloud-native systems, Sainsbury’s Tech offers career-defining challenges at real scale.

The role

We’re looking for a Test Engineer to join our Digital Store Channels team, working closely with our Devices capability to handle collections and returns for our customers.

You’ll play a key role in defining and delivering a test strategy that advances our automated testing capability, while supporting sprint delivery within a Scrum environment. You’ll balance hands-on testing with strategic thinking, ensuring quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.

This is an excellent opportunity for a tester with strong JavaScript skills and a passion for automation to grow their impact in a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering culture.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop and execute manual and automated tests across functional, API, end-to-end and regression scenarios
• Contribute to and evolve automated test frameworks using tools such as Playwright and similar
• Drive improvements to automated testing within the release and deployment process
• Work closely with engineers and product teams to ensure clear, testable acceptance criteria are defined for user stories
• Execute tests, analyse results, monitor quality metrics and clearly communicate findings gathered through automation and manual in-store discovery to the engineering team
• Identify, document and prioritise defects with appropriate supporting detail
• Support continuous improvement across testing practices, tools and ways of working
• Stay up to date with emerging testing and automation technologies while maintaining a strong focus on work-life balance

Essential criteria

You’ll bring energy, curiosity and a proactive mindset, along with the following essential skills and experience

• Strong JavaScript engineering and coding skills
• Proven experience in manual testing, with a clear interest in developing automated testing expertise
• Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of automated testing frameworks such as Playwright
• Ability to create clear and effective test cases and test documentation from User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Practical experience working in Agile environments, particularly Scrum
• Strong communication skills, able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and in-store colleagues
• Ability to write, maintain and communicate concise technical documentation

Desirable experience

• Experience using GitHub CI/CD actions or workflows
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for ticket management and documentation
• Practical knowledge of NextJS or React
• Experience or understanding of backend testing frameworks (e.g. Java)

Benefits

• Colleague discount across Sainsbury’s, Argos, and Habitat.
• Competitive holiday allowance.
• Bonus scheme.
• Pension plan.
• Flexible / smart working policy.
• Exclusive offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Work–life balance matters. We offer as much flexibility as possible, trusting our colleagues to decide how, where, and when they work. You’ll enjoy a blend of remote and collaborative working with the flexibility to support life outside of work—while still 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 get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 10% 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 additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay 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 eligibility criteria may apply).