QA Automation Lead: Booking & AI QA (Hybrid)

Trivago; United States; Hybrid; USD 46,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Trivago Innovation Center in Poland is seeking a QA Lead to own quality across our booking products. This hands-on lead sets the testing direction, writes automation with Playwright and TypeScript, and still performs manual end-to-end testing across internal services and external payments.

You will expand AI usage in QA, triage defects with developers, and translate OKRs into a concrete QA plan while mentoring other QAs. This hybrid, full-time opportunity joins a global travel-tech team.

Qualifications

• Experience defining a test strategy and getting a team to adopt it.
• Hands-on experience testing end-to-end flows across services and external systems like payments and third‑party APIs.
• Solid manual testing and exploratory testing with clear test cases.

Responsibilities

• Define the test strategy for booking products and drive adoption.
• Write and maintain automated tests in Playwright; decide automation priorities.
• Run manual and exploratory end-to-end tests across services and payment providers; triage defects.
• Verify that AB test variants and analytics events work as intended.
• Expand AI in QA; measure impact and efficiency.
• Translate OKRs into a QA plan and communicate with the Senior Product Manager.
• Inspire and mentor other QAs on the team.

Skills

Test strategy

Automation testing

Playwright

TypeScript

End-to-end testing

API testing

Postman

SQL

Agile/Scrum

AI fluency

Tools

Postman

Fiddler

Browser dev tools

Job description

Trivago Innovation Center in Poland is seeking a QA Lead to own quality across our booking products. This hands-on lead sets the testing direction, writes automation with Playwright and TypeScript, and still performs manual end-to-end testing across internal services and external payments.

You will expand AI usage in QA, triage defects with developers, and translate OKRs into a concrete QA plan while mentoring other QAs. This hybrid, full-time opportunity joins a global travel-tech team.