Senior Manual QA Engineer

TPConnects; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

TPConnects is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to help scale our QA efforts across frontend and backend systems in a fast-growing Warsaw engineering hub. You will design and execute manual and automated tests, ensure risk-aware testing early in the cycle, and drive improvements in test automation and processes.

You will work closely with Engineers, Product Managers and Architects, leveraging AI-assisted QA tools and modern frameworks to deliver reliable software for airline tech platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering.
• Experience with API testing using Postman.
• Experience with functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Cucumber, Playwright, or Jest.
• Strong understanding of software development processes and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Define and promote quality standards across the software development lifecycle.
• Design, execute and maintain manual and automated test scenarios across frontend and backend.
• Review requirements and provide early feedback to improve product quality before development begins.
• Collaborate with Engineers and Product Managers to identify risks and ensure testability.
• Perform API, UI, functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Contribute to test automation and continuous improvement of QA processes.
• Track, investigate and communicate defects throughout the development lifecycle.
• Help teams build quality into every release through collaboration and engineering best practices.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Test Automation

API testing

Manual Testing

Agile Methodologies

Communication

English Fluent

Tools

Postman

Cucumber

Playwright

Jest

Job description

About TPConnects

TPConnects is a leading travel technology company headquartered in Dubai with a rapidly growing engineering hub in Warsaw. We build software powering modern airline retailing. Every month, our platforms process millions of ticket purchases, connect airlines worldwide, and power digital retailing for airline providers.We’re a product company. We build, own and continuously improve our platform, giving engineering teams the opportunity to solve meaningful technical challenges at global scale.

Our team includes colleagues from dozens of nationalities, making English our everyday language.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Quality Engineer with a full-stack mindset: someone who wants to grow in test automation while remaining comfortable with manual testing and test execution. You'll help ensure our platform delivers the reliability, quality and performance expected from software powering global travel, testing across both frontend and backend.

You’ll work closely with Engineers, Product Managers and Architects throughout the entire development lifecycle, helping teams build quality into the product from the very beginning rather than validating it at the end.This role is ideal for someone who enjoys improving engineering processes, driving test automation, challenging assumptions and helping teams deliver reliable software with confidence.

Our engineering teams build cloud-native applications using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, React, MySQL, DynamoDB and microservices, with quality engineering embedded into every stage of development. Our test automation is written in TypeScript (Node.js) with Playwright and Cucumber.js, and reported in Allure.

AI-enhanced quality engineering

We use Claude AI coding assistants as part of our everyday engineering workflow to improve productivity and reduce repetitive work. Our Quality Engineers use AI to generate and improve test scenarios, accelerate test automation, analyse defects, create documentation and support exploratory testing.

While AI helps us work more efficiently, quality is still driven by engineering judgement, critical thinking and attention to detail.

What you’ll do

• Define and promote quality standards across the software development lifecycle.
• Design, execute and maintain manual and automated test scenarios across frontend and backend.
• Review requirements and provide early feedback to improve product quality before development begins.
• Collaborate with Engineers and Product Managers to identify risks and ensure testability.
• Perform API, UI, functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Contribute to test automation and continuous improvement of QA processes.
• Track, investigate and communicate defects throughout the development lifecycle.
• Help teams build quality into every release through collaboration and engineering best practices.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of professional experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering.
• Experience with API testing using tools such as Postman.
• Experience with functional, regression and exploratory testing.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Cucumber, Playwright, or Jest.
• Strong understanding of software development processes and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript / Node.js.
• Performance testing experience.
• Experience working with cloud-based SaaS platforms.
• Travel technology experience.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted quality engineering.