Senior QA Automation Engineer

Wakacje.pl; Gdańsk; On-site; PLN 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits cafeteria

International environment

Office in Gdańsk (Alchemia)

Job summary

Wakacje.pl is expanding its QA automation team in Gdańsk. We seek a Senior QA Automation Engineer who will own test automation strategy, design scalable frameworks, and coordinate with developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to deliver high-quality travel software.

You will design and maintain E2E tests, API tests, and quality gates in GitLab CI, while reducing flakiness and improving reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance and test automation, with ownership of complex automation solutions.
• Proven experience designing or significantly improving a test automation framework.
• Deep expertise in areas like framework architecture, CI/CD integration, API testing, or flaky test prevention.

Responsibilities

• Define and rollout the test automation strategy for your area, focusing on E2E tests and balancing risk, coverage, and maintenance costs.
• Own architecture decisions for the E2E test framework and contribute to a shared scalable framework.
• Design automated tests across testing pyramid levels and write API-based steps in E2E tests.
• Design automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines and monitor execution, performance, and reliability.
• Mentor other QA/automation engineers and drive improvements to tooling and processes.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and QA to improve product testability and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Playwright

TypeScript

API testing

CI/CD

Flaky test prevention

Test automation architecture

Mentoring

Tools

GitLab CI

Report Portal

Allure

Job description

Invia x Travelplanet.pl x Wakacje.pl is one of the largest travel groups in Europe. Every year we help more than 6 million people plan their trips. Behind that sit teams in IT, Product, Data, Marketing, HR, Finance, Sales and Customer Experience, who build the tools and services those travelers use. Whichever team you join, your work shows up in how people plan and experience their holidays.

Your next stop:

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer who combines strong technical expertise with a quality-first mindset and a passion for building reliable testing solutions at scale. In this role, you will take ownership of test automation strategy within your area, design and evolve automation frameworks, and help teams deliver high-quality products through effective quality engineering practices. Working closely with developers, product managers, and fellow QA engineers, you will influence technical decisions, drive continuous improvements, and mentor others while ensuring quality remains an integral part of the software development lifecycle.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Region: pomorskie

What lies ahead on your journey:

Strategy and test design

• Roll out the team's test automation strategy in your area, with a focus on E2E tests, balancing product risk, coverage, execution time, and maintenance cost.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across the appropriate levels of the testing pyramid.
• Define the appropriate balance between automated and manual testing in your area, including decisions about what not to automate.
• Perform exploratory, smoke, and project-related manual testing when needed, alongside automation.
• Analyze requirements, architecture, and product risks to identify testability issues and coverage gaps early in the SDLC.
• Set and track automation quality goals for your area (for example, flakiness rate, execution time, coverage of critical user flows), in line with the overall test strategy.

Framework and tooling

• Own architecture decisions for the E2E test framework in your area and contribute to the shared framework, ensuring scalability, maintainability, reliability, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Develop automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript, while remaining able to evaluate and adopt other tools when justified by the product’s needs.
• Write API tests and API-based steps in E2E tests (for example, chained requests to prepare test data and application state), following good practices of API test design.

CI/CD, reliability and test data

• Design and own automated quality gates for E2E tests in CI/CD pipelines in your area, including parallel execution, reporting, execution performance, and pipeline reliability.
• Integrate test reporting tools (for example, Report Portal and Allure) into the test framework and CI/CD pipelines, following the agreed setup, and work with DevOps when pipeline or environment changes are needed.
• Proactively identify and eliminate flaky tests and pipeline failures, focusing on root-cause analysis and long-term prevention.
• Define scalable test data management for E2E tests in your area, including test data setup, isolation, cleanup, and synthetic data generation, and keep test data secure and compliant (for example, no real customer personal data in tests, safe handling of credentials and tokens).

Code quality and documentation

• Conduct automation code reviews, establish coding and review standards, and ensure the long-term maintainability of the test suite.
• Own and maintain technical documentation for automation frameworks, quality gates, test execution, and troubleshooting.

Collaboration and team growth

• Work closely with developers, product managers, designers, and other QA engineers to define acceptance criteria and improve product testability.
• Mentor less experienced QA Automation Engineers, help others resolve complex technical problems, and contribute to recruitment interviews when required.
• Propose and implement improvements to automation tooling, engineering practices, and quality processes in your area, and share what works with the wider QA team.

What to pack in your suitcase:

Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance and test automation, with demonstrated ownership of complex automation solutions.
• Proven experience designing or significantly improving a test automation framework.
• Deep expertise in at least one area, such as framework architecture and design patterns, CI/CD integration, test data management, API testing, or debugging and flaky test prevention. We don't expect you to be equally strong in every area listed here.
• Experience mentoring or technically supporting other QA or automation engineers.

Technical skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, including the ability to design maintainable automation architecture and apply appropriate design patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with testing RESTful APIs: chaining requests, handling authentication, validating responses and schemas, and structuring API test code so it stays maintainable.
• Experience designing automated quality gates and integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab CI; experience with other CI tools is fine).
• Practical experience diagnosing and preventing flaky tests, test-environment issues, and pipeline failures.
• Experience with test data management and reliable test-environment setup.
• Experience conducting automation code reviews and improving code quality standards.
• Everyday use of AI-assisted tools in development and testing, with the ability to spot subtle problems in AI-generated code and plans (wrong abstractions, missed edge cases) and keep code quality high.
• Experience building test suites with reliability in mind from the start: telemetry, retry logic, and reporting that make failures easy to diagnose.

Testing knowledge

• Strong understanding of testing principles, including choosing the right test layer for a scenario (unit, integration, E2E) based on cost and value, risk-based testing, exploratory testing, regression testing, and coverage analysis.
• Hands-on experience with exploratory and manual testing, not only automation.

Ways of working

• Ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations and clearly explain the reasoning behind them.
• Strong analytical, debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, Product, Design, and other stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to drive initiatives from problem identification through implementation and measurable improvement.
• Being honest about progress, blockers, and what you don't know; disagreeing constructively and committing once a decision is made; taking feedback seriously, including in code review.
• Interest in the product and its users, and the ability to explain quality issues in business terms (for example, impact on customers or bookings).

Your extra baggage of experience:

• Experience with Go-based backend services and troubleshooting distributed applications.
• Experience building or maintaining automation for backend-heavy systems.
• Experience with contract testing.
• Experience with performance, reliability, security, or accessibility testing.
• Knowledge of SEO/SEA and automated validation of SEO-related requirements.
• Experience influencing quality practices across multiple teams or products.

What you will find on board:

• Opportunities for professional development aligned with current business needs and your individual career goals,
• A benefits cafeteria platform – we do not decide what siuts for you, you can choose from life insurance, a sports card, and lunch and shopping vouchers,
• Cooperation in international environment,
• Access to Audioteka and Pilot WP, helping you balance personal development with moments of relaxation,
• An openness to innovation and AI-powered tools that support our daily work and help us achieve even better results,
• Discounts on our products for you, your family, and friends,
• Comfortable office in convenient location (Gdańsk – Alchemia; Wrocław - Legnicka Business Garden), along with a friendly and informal atmosphere that encourages collaboration,
• Option to join International educational trips, so you can see the destinations and hotels from our portfolio for yourself,
• A culture built on trust, open communication, feedback, and appreciation (because the best journeys begin with a great team),
• Team where #Explore #Engage #Enjoy build our travel mindset.

1. Personal Data Controller
The controller of your personal data will be Wakacje.pl S.A. with its registered office in Gdańsk (hereinafter: we).
You can contact us at: Wakacje.pl S.A., al. Grunwaldzka 413, 80-309 Gdańsk

2. Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer. This is the person you can contact in all matters related to the
processing of personal data and the exercise of rights related to data processing. You can contact the inspector in
the following ways:
- by letter to the following address: Wakacje.pl S.A. / IODO / al. Grunwaldzka 413, 80-309 Gdańsk
- by e-mail to the following e-mail address: [e-mail]

3. Purposes and bases for processing
We will process your personal data for the following purposes:
1) Conduct the recruitment process for the position you are applying for. The basis for processing is:

• implementation of labour law provisions (Article 22 (1) § 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure) and
  preparation for concluding a contract (Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR) in the scope of the following data:
  name(s) and surname; Date of birth; Contact; education; professional qualifications, the course of
  previous employment;
• Your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR to the additional data that you choose to provide to us
  voluntarily in your CV, cover letter or during a job interview. Providing additional data, to the extent
  not specified by labour law or not required by us, will be treated as consent to the processing of
  such personal data. Giving consent in this case is voluntary, and consent given in this way may be
  revoked at any time;
• our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) in the data collected by us during the interview. We
  have a legitimate interest in vetting your skills and abilities – we need this to assess whether you are
  the right person for the position we are recruiting for;
• our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR) consisting in the possibility of conducting
  recruitment by electronic means, efficient communication and ensuring the correct identification
  and, if necessary, confirmation of the candidate's identity in the system used to manage the
  recruitment process (the email address is the candidate's identifier in the eRecruiter system);

2) assessment of your qualifications, abilities and skills during future recruitment – the basis for the
processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR);
3) archival and evidentiary data - the basis for processing is our legitimate interest related to the pursuit or
defence of possible claims (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

4. Data retention period
We will retain your personal data for a period of one year after you submit your application for the position.

5. Data recipients
We will transfer your personal data to service providers supporting us in conducting recruitment processes, e.g. IT
service providers and a service provider providing the eRecruiter recruitment process management system, i.e.
eRecruitment Solutions sp. z o.o Such entities process data on the basis of a contract with us and in accordance
with our instructions.

Other companies from the Wirtualna Polska Holding S.A. capital group for administrative purposes,
including personnel management throughout the capital group for the purpose of exchanging data within
the capital group, in particular in connection with human resources management and organizational
structure, administrative, HR, payroll and IT services, planning and reporting at the group level.
In addition, if you consent to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of future recruitment,
we will be able to transfer your personal data to companies from the Wirtualna Polska capital group, which
includes Wirtualna Polska Holding S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw and subsidiaries
(https://holding.wp.pl/investor/struktura-grupy-kapitalowej)

6. Rights related to the processing of your personal data
You have the right to:
1) access to your personal data,
2) request rectification of your personal data,
3) request the deletion of your personal data,
4) request restriction of processing of your personal data,
5) object to the processing of your data – in cases where we process your data on the basis of our
legitimate interest,
6) transfer of your personal data, i.e. the right to receive your personal data from us, in a structured,
commonly used and machine-readable IT format. You can send this data to another data controller or
request that we transmit your data to another controller, but we will only do so if such transfer is
technically possible. You have this right to portability only in respect of the data that we process on the
basis of a contract with you or on the basis of your consent,
7) to the extent that your data is processed on the basis of consent - withdraw consent to the processing
of your personal data at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of
processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.

To exercise the above rights, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer (contact details in points 1 and 2
above).

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection. This
right applies only to the lawfulness of the processing of personal data, and does not apply to the course of the
recruitment process