At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We’re united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. We believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. We inspire, we build, and we celebrate. We dream big, love our users, hustle every day, and always do the right thing to win - together. Our people are at the heart of our success.
ABOUT THE ROLE AND THE TEAM:
The Knot Worldwide is hiring a Senior Engineer in Test to join a highly motivated team. The right engineer will enjoy fast paced collaboration with product, design, and user experience teams in an Agile environment to ensure high quality web and mobile features for our couples and vendors.
This role will focus on applications and products in the Ecommerce Zone, iterating on innovative features that enable couples and guests to seamlessly make a purchase or build out a registry across our family of brands.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensure that features are high-quality by building test strategies, writing and executing test plans, and communicating with the team about issues, risk, and product quality.
- Leverage skills and experience to develop backend automated tests to ensure product quality.
- Manually test new features and bug fixes before incorporating them into automated test suites.
- Interface with teams in coordinating API automation tests and manual regression testing for every production release.
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve the QA process.
- Promote best practices surrounding TDD, continuous integration, code standards, etc.
- Support multiple squad initiatives by following agile practices
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES HAVE:
- Expert knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
- Proven hands on experience writing automated tests for backend services.
- Solid experience writing automated tests for backend services and APIs using frameworks such as Playwright, Supertest, Mocha, Tap or similar.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- Clear and concise communication with the team around QA deliverables.
- Experience with modern UI test frameworks like Playwright.
- Experience designing and developing load tests to measure application performance.
- Experience using Node.js or similar technology.
- Experience leading teams and projects in an Agile, TDD environment.
- Familiarity with ecommerce order management and order processing systems is a plus.
- Familiarity with AWS/Kubernetes/Docker concepts and technology is a plus.
BENEFITS:
- Private health insurance
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance program: on-demand mental health assistance program for any professional or personal matter
- Optional salary advances
- Tax relief options: pre-tax savings for food, transport, daycare and work related training expenses
- Gym membership discount
- Udemy courses
- Personal time off: 23 working days of holidays per year + additional days each year considering the application of the max. anual working hours of the Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Other leave entitlements: nhancements to statutory leave permissions, for instance: maternity, paternity, childcare, illness and others to support work-life balance
- Work from home allowance (40€/month)
- Food allowance (55€/month)
- Employee gifting
- Signature events
- Employee resource groups
- DEI & Sustainability councils
- Robust communication and feedback channels
- Focused Fridays
- Recognition iniciatives
- Local events
- GROW program
- TKWW University for Employee & Leader development
- Employee referral program
WORK MODEL:
This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based near one of our office hubs. Starting September 15, 2025, you’ll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.
At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job if it sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!
WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:
You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.
You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.
You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.
You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes.
You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.
WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:
We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter both in and out of the “office”. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.
