Senior QA Test Automation Engineer

About the role

KION Group, which owns Linde Material Handling since 2006, is looking for a Senior QA Test Automation Engineer in Barcelona (Zona Franca). The role suits someone who combines strong automation expertise with an AI-first mindset, using Agentic AI to design, implement, maintain and run scalable automated tests. The engineer works in Agile teams with developers, product managers and other QA engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable, reliable automated test frameworks, including UI, API, integration and end-to-end tests.
• Improve test coverage, execution speed and maintainability, and eliminate flaky tests through reliability engineering.
• Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code to generate, refactor and optimise test code, create test cases and data, investigate failures and support risk-based testing.
• Integrate automated tests into GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines and maintain GitHub Actions workflows with parallelisation and test selection.

Required profile

• 5+ years of hands-on test automation experience, including web and API automation and framework design.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and working in Agile environments.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and practical use of Agentic AI in quality engineering.

Required skills

• Playwright for web test automation.
• Github Actions / GitHub Workflows.
• REST API testing and distributed services.
• Understanding of test automation architecture, test design and quality engineering principles.

What we offer

• Remuneration based on experience, skills and development.
• Extensive training and participation in international projects.
• Hybrid work model, flexible hours, private health insurance and food allowance.