Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Global Hotel Alliance; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Hotel Alliance is looking for a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to own quality for our website, CMS and APIs. You will design and build a test automation framework from the ground up, selecting tools and defining standards.

You will bring AI testing techniques into the workflow and collaborate with developers, product owners, marketing, and vendors to ensure release quality. You will design test plans and cases, run automated and manual tests, lead user acceptance testing with

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software quality assurance, including automated tests
• Experience designing/setting up a test automation framework
• Hands-on with web automation frameworks (Playwright/Selenium)
• Experience with API testing (Postman or similar) and CI pipelines

Responsibilities

• Design and build web and API test automation framework from scratch
• Own testing for website, CMS and APIs
• Combine automated and manual testing based on release needs
• Leverage AI tools to design tests, generate data, and analyze failures
• Write test plans, test cases and reports with traceability
• Lead user acceptance testing with stakeholders before releases
• Assess release risk and advocate go/no-go decisions
• Log and track defects in Jira and coordinate with developers and product teams

Skills

Automated testing

Test automation framework

AI-assisted testing

Documentation

Release coordination

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Postman

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Global Hotel Alliance is the world’s largest alliance of independent hotel brands, with more than 50 brands and over 1,000 hotels in 100 countries. Our loyalty programme, GHA DISCOVERY, serves 36 million members worldwide.

Our E-commerce Applications and Engineering team builds and runs the GHA DISCOVERY digital platform: our website ghadiscovery.com, our iOS and Android apps, and the APIs that power our brand channels.

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to own quality for our website, content management system and APIs, and to build our test automation from the ground up. You will choose the tools, design the framework and set the standards. We use AI tools across our engineering team, and we expect you to bring them into how you test.

What you will do

• Design and build our web and API test automation framework from scratch, including tool selection, structure, reporting and continuous integration
• Own testing for ghadiscovery.com, our content management system and our APIs
• Combine automated and manual testing, choosing the right approach for each release
• Use AI tools to speed up test design, test code, test data and results analysis
• Write test plans, test cases and test reports, and maintain traceability between requirements, tests and defects
• Lead user acceptance testing with business stakeholders before each release
• Assess release risk and give a clear go or no-go recommendation
• Log, track and drive defects to resolution in Jira
• Work closely with developers, product owners, marketing and third-party vendors

Requirements: technical skills

• 4+ years of experience in software quality assurance, including 2+ years writing and maintaining automated tests
• Proven experience setting up a test automation framework from scratch
• Hands-on experience with at least one web automation framework (Playwright, Selenium or equivalent)
• Regular, practical use of AI tools in your testing work, such as generating test cases, writing and refactoring test code, or analysing failures
• Strong documentation skills: test plans, test cases, traceability matrices and release reports
• Experience with API testing (Postman or similar)
• Experience in functional and non-functional testing
• Experience with Git and running automated tests in continuous integration pipelines
• Experience with Jira and Confluence

Will be a plus

• Experience testing applications in the hospitality or travel domain, such as hotel booking engines or online travel agency platforms
• Experience testing loyalty, points or rewards systems
• Experience testing payment flows
• Experience with content management systems
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum teams
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to work independently and own your area end to end
• Confident making decisions and explaining the reasons behind them
• A get-the-job-done attitude and a willingness to help the wider team
• Able to manage several projects at once in a deadline-driven environment