Test Leader|Test architect |Range Experience

IKEA is building for the future 

The goal of Range Experience is to support and empower customers to find their personal best home furnishing solutions. We run and develop digital solutions used by customers and co-workers enabling them to design homes and home furnishing solutions for the entire IKEA range. Part of our portfolio are planning solutions for Kitchens, Bathrooms, Storage solutions, Beds... Our next big step ahead will be to enable customers to design their full homes.     

The solutions and capabilities we develop are an integral part of the entire seamless buying and selling experience and a key contributor to converting visitors into happy customers and to engaging with our customers from the start. Utilizing data around and about our products to create more personalized experiences is an integral part of the work we do.     

Our end user is not only people planning their homes, from their home. We also deliver solutions to all IKEA retailers. Do you want to be part of our journey to create a better everyday life for the many people?  

As a Test Leader in Range Experience you will lead and continuously refine the quality and test automation approach together with the other software engineering leaders and the automation testing team as an element of the Range Experience strategy and ways of working. You will build and lead the Range Experience quality and test community, ensuring that we utilize synergies and continuously build competence.  

We are safeguarding that we create solutions that can be experienced by our customers and co-workers without disturbances as well as that we gain efficiency in our ways of working through continuous and embedded focus on quality.  

You will lead the test automation agenda, interacting with and coach our product teams in their testing as well as working out automation strategies. This may include creation of test tooling and data generation, including an overall risk management as well as mitigation strategy planning. 

Meet Sigge who works as Test Leader: 

“As test leader I coach development teams on quality strategy, test automation and monitoring strategies as well as coordinate synergies across teams to deliver seamless planning experiences to our customers worldwide." 

What about you?  

As a person you see the joy of sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues across different teams. Being curious and innovative is at the core of everything you do, and you know that making mistakes sometimes is part of your own development and learning journey.  

You bring extensive experience and knowledge as Test Architect and are fully familiar with agile/DevOps practices and tooling, and how the quality aspect is an integrated part of the development. Ideally, you have experience in building test automation frameworks and getting to build their usage in an organization of cross-functional product teams. 

You are an experienced leader with the ability to coach our product teams, testers and developers alike around test automation as an integrated part in software development, helping to ensure that we use our resources in the best way to achieve the strongest outcome. 

You enjoy an agile, iterative and structured way of working and achieving results together with a team in a flexible environment but also have a strong individual drive to deliver high quality results on time. You have great communication and networking skills and are fluent in written and spoken English.   

We could be teammates if you are experienced within:   

• As Test Architect you have defined and implemented test automation strategies for web and mobile applications to improve customer experience 
• Leading QA tooling and framework decisions to ensure consistency and efficiency across teams 
• Experience of building and maintaining modern test automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress or similar, including custom framework design in JavaScript/TypeScript with deep CI/CD integration via GitHub Actions 
• Integrating Sentry or similar tools for monitoring and real-time error tracking 
• Working in Agile/DevOps environments, with a strong focus on shift-left testing and continuous delivery 

This role is full-time (40 hours per week) and is based in Malmö, Sweden. For questions related to recruitment process please contact jas.garcha@inter.ikea.com.

Please send your application in English with a cover letter if neccassary.  This position closing date will be 09/01/2026

At IKEA, we are looking for people who believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. You’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, and what you look like. We don’t even care how you have furnished your home. We’re interested in you simply because you’re you. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We believe that people’s different perspectives, backgrounds, and personalities make us better at understanding our customers dreams and needs. At IKEA, we’re all on the same project.    If you have a special need that requires accommodation in the recruitment process, just let us know.