Quality Assurance Engineer

About Sonepar

Sonepar is an independent family-owned company standing as the world leader in B-to-B distribution of electrical equipment, solutions, and services. In 2024, Sonepar achieved sales of 32.5 billion. Present in 40 countries with a dense network of brands, the Group is leading an ambitious transformation to make its customers' lives easier providing them with an omnichannel experience and sustainable solutions in the building, industry, and energy markets.

Sonepar's 46 000 associates are committed to accelerating the world's electrification and driven by a shared Purpose: Powering Progress for Future Generations.

www.sonepar.com

How will you shape our tomorrow?

We are looking for aQuality Engineer (QE) to strengthen Quality Engineering practices across the Spark ecosystem. This role applies to both AX (Associate Experience) and CX (Customer Experience) streams.

During the recruitment process, candidates may be assigned to AX or CX based on interview feedback, team needs, and skill profile.
Regardless of the final assignment, the expectations, ways of working, and quality principles are shared across both contexts.

As a Quality Engineer, you will be part of a delivery team, contributing to both product quality and quality system maturity. You will ensure that automation, riskbased testing, and early quality involvement are core drivers of delivery confidence.

• Contribute to defining acceptance criteria and quality expectations for user stories and features
• Participate early in discovery, refinement, and technical discussions to assess risks and quality impact
• Drive riskbased testing aligned with business criticality

• Define, implement, and maintain test strategies aligned with shared QE principles (quality built-in, shift-left, automate as a tool for confidence and scale, continuous improvement, continuous testing)
• Design and execute functional, endtoend (E2E), API, and exploratory tests, depending on the context
• Contribute to nonfunctional testing activities (performance, reliability, accessibility) when relevant

• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines
• Improve test reliability, maintainability, and execution time
• Contribute to shared automation principles and standards

• Work closely with developers, product owners, architects, and other QEs
• Promote Quality Engineering practices within teams
• Support knowledge sharing, documentation, and onboarding material

• Contribute to the evolution of quality processes, governance, and metrics
• Participate in crossteam initiatives such as defect management, test observability, and AIassisted testing
• Continuously inspect and improve testing effectiveness and efficiency

• Experience in Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering in agile environments
• Strong understanding of Agile & DevOps principles
• Experience designing and executing automated tests at multiple levels
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and quality gates
• Ability to analyze failures, identify root causes, and provide actionable feedback

• Programming/scripting experience (preferred: JavaScript / TypeScript)
• Experience with modern test automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright, WebdriverIO, Cucumber...)
• API testing experience
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Xray)

• Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills
• Ability to work in crossfunctional, international teams
• Qualityfirst mindset with a focus on prevention over detection
• Comfortably make challenging decisions constructively when quality or risk is at stake

We are open to candidates with different levels of seniority.

While the role expectations remain consistent, the level of mastery, autonomy, and scope of impact depends on seniority. Seniority is assessed based on engineering maturity, ownership, and impact, not on years of experience alone.

For this role, we value mindset and progression over ticking every checkbox:

• Some skills may be applied with guidance
• Others with full autonomy
• And for senior profiles, with the ability to influence practices beyond the team

Interviewers assess the level of mastery and learning capacity, rather than expecting full expertise across all areas from day one.

• Confirmed QE: applies core QE practices with support, contributes to test automation and quality activities within the team
• Senior QE: operates autonomously, drives test strategy and automation quality, influences team practices, and mentors others

This framing is illustrative and not prescriptive, and does not limit growth within the role.

While the role is generic, QEs may be assigned to:

• AX (Associate Experience) delivery area: it covers the internal users and associates' experience when operating the business through digital tools.
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  • Internal workflows and operational tools
  • Business processes used by sales, customer care, marketing, operations, etc.
  • Backoffice and administrative systems
  
  
  
  
• CX (Customer Experience) delivery area: it covers the end-customers' experience when interacting with our digital products.

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  • Customerfacing journeys (browse, search, order, track, support)
  • Public or authenticated touchpoints (web, mobile, APIs consumed by customers or partners)
  • Reliability, performance, usability, accessibility, and trust from a customer perspective
  
  
  
  

The assignment is decided during the interview process, based on:

• Technical and functional strengths
• Experience and learning potential
• Team balance and delivery priorities

Quality principles, expectations, and engineering standards remain aligned across AX and CX.

• Quality risks are identified early and addressed proactively
• Automated tests provide reliable, fast feedback and support confident releases
• Teams progressively rely less on manual validation
• Quality becomes a shared responsibility across roles
• Continuous improvement is visible in quality metrics and delivery outcomes
• Fluent English. French is a plus.

• Experience with largescale platforms or enterprise ecosystems
• Exposure to AIassisted testing or test observability
• Knowledge of SAFe or scaled agile environments
• International and multiteam collaboration experience

Work Mode & Location

- Hybrid: 3 days in Paris (8eme) after the trial period

Benefits that await you:

The role - Your daily activities will be interesting, stimulating and varied... No two days are alike!

The organisation - You'll be part of the Sonepar family and share the same values!

The culture - You'll be working in an international environment.

The team - Our dynamic, multidisciplinary, open-minded and talented team is eager to welcome additional skills to continue to meet the challenge.

75% reimbursement of your monthly or annual transport pass.

Swile Ticket restaurant card

Gym exclusively reserved for the company and made available to employees free of charge.

Sustainable mobility package

Health insurance & Welfare

Employee Savings Plan & Profit Sharing Bonus.

Recruitment process

• Prescreening interview with a Talent Acquisition Manager
• First interview with the Hiring Manager and a member of the team
• Technical interview
• Final HR interview

We are interested in knowing you more. Start an exciting new career and enjoy many employee benefits by applying online. Sonepar HQ is thankful for your interest in joining the team, only individuals selected for interview will be contacted.

More information on Sonepar:

Website: www.sonepar.com

Twitter: @sonepar

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sonepar/

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