QA Automation Engineer

American Express Global Business Travel; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company is looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join its Product Development team in the UK. The role focuses on maintaining high standards in quality assurance for proprietary travel products and platforms, requiring substantial experience with automated testing frameworks. The ideal candidate will possess strong coding abilities in JavaScript/TypeScript and a deep understanding of agile methodologies, while also being able to coach and mentor others in the team. This position offers a collaborative and inclusive work environment with flexible benefits aimed at enhancing work/life balance.

Benefits

Flexible benefits tailored to each country

Travel perks from major providers

Access to 20,000 courses on the learning platform

Inclusion Groups for employee engagement

Qualifications

• Five years or more software testing experience within an agile development team.
• Substantial hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks and tools.
• Good understanding of the Business Travel industry.

Responsibilities

• Design, write and maintain clean, high-quality automated scripts that test product functionality.
• Help guide the QA team in transitioning from manual to automated testing.
• Execute all levels of testing including integration, system, acceptance, exploratory and regression.

Skills

Automated testing frameworks

Selenium

Playwright

JavaScript/TypeScript

Agile methodologies

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Job description

time left to apply End Date: July 31, 2025 (6 days left to apply)

job requisition id J-74901

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

Sitting within our Product Development team, we are looking to hire a QA Automation Engineer, who will be working in an agile, multi-disciplined team with the core focus on quality assurance of our proprietary travel products and platforms. Contributing to the overall development and delivery process, the QA Automation Engineer writes and performs automated and manual tests, ensuring created software is fit for purpose and achieves quality assurance standards.Playing a pivotal role within the team, the QA Automation Engineer actively employs best practices, driving high standards of software testing and supporting documentation.

What You’ll Do on a Typical Day

Design, write and maintain clean, high-quality automated scripts that test product functionality and performance.

Help guide the experienced QA team on their journey from manual testing toward automation, providing coaching and mentoring where necessary.

Help define an automated test strategy adhering to accepted best practices and QA methodology.

Execute all levels of testing as required, including integration, system, acceptance, exploratory and regression.

Detect and triage software defects and inconsistencies, managing defects through to resolution.

Conduct smoke tests on releases into the production environment.

What Technical Skills You’ll Develop

Substantial hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks and tools like: Playwright, Selenium, Webdriver, Cucumber, TestNG, and Rest Assured. We use Playwright.

Understanding of HTML and CSS.

Experience with .NET technologies such as: C#, VB, ASP.NET.

Experience with version control systems such as Git.

Five years or more software testing experience within an agile development team.

Knowledge of Jira and Confluence.

Good understanding of the Business Travel industry, including working knowledge of one of the GDSs (Travelport).

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Location

United Kingdom

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

Sitting within our Product Development team, we are looking to hire a QA Automation Engineer, who will be working in an agile, multi-disciplined team with the core focus on quality assurance of our proprietary travel products and platforms. Contributing to the overall development and delivery process, the QA Automation Engineer writes and performs automated and manual tests, ensuring created software is fit for purpose and achieves quality assurance standards.Playing a pivotal role within the team, the QA Automation Engineer actively employs best practices, driving high standards of software testing and supporting documentation.

What You’ll Do on a Typical Day

• Design, write and maintain clean, high-quality automated scripts that test product functionality and performance.

• Help guide the experienced QA team on their journey from manual testing toward automation, providing coaching and mentoring where necessary.

• Help define an automated test strategy adhering to accepted best practices and QA methodology.

• Execute all levels of testing as required, including integration, system, acceptance, exploratory and regression.

• Detect and triage software defects and inconsistencies, managing defects through to resolution.

• Conduct smoke tests on releases into the production environment.

What Technical Skills You’ll Develop

• Substantial hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks and tools like: Playwright, Selenium, Webdriver, Cucumber, TestNG, and Rest Assured. We use Playwright.

• Strong coding ability in Javascript/Typescript.

• Understanding of HTML and CSS.

• Experience with .NET technologies such as: C#, VB, ASP.NET.

• Experience with version control systems such as Git.

• Five years or more software testing experience within an agile development team.

• Knowledge of Jira and Confluence.

• Good understanding of the Business Travel industry, including working knowledge of one of the GDSs (Travelport).

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Location

United Kingdom

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family .

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

A ll applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

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What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!