Senior QA Automation Engineer

Who is UJV?

Planning and managing a 5-star vacation from scratch requires expertise, cleverness, and a genuine passion for detail. That's what UJV is all about. UJV is a service-driven team of experts that work behind the scenes, engineering luxury travel experiences for advisors globally, so they can grow their business and fully satisfy their exclusive clients.

We are the luxury travel advisor’s right hand. How?

• UJV is a team of travel experts that advises and supports luxury travel advisors worldwide.

• We work behind the scenes as allies of top luxury travel advisors, to offer a 5 Star experience for their clients.

• We offer travel advisors the knowledge and tools needed to grow their business and better serve their exclusive clients.

• We offer an experience-centered service based on passion, expertise, integrity

• and attention to detail.

• We are willing to do the hard work in order to see our clients shine.

Candidates located outside the United States will be engaged under an independent contractor agreement. You will be responsible for managing your own social security and taxes in accordance with the regulations of your home country. Please take this into consideration before applying.

Role Mission

At Ultimate Jet Vacations, technology plays a critical role in delivering reliable experiences to our customers and internal teams.
We're looking for a Senior Software Test Engineer to lead quality efforts across our product suite. This is a hands-on role focused on building automated testing, defining testing strategies, identifying risks, and partnering closely with Engineering and Product to deliver reliable software.
You'll also have the opportunity to mentor other QA engineers and help shape how quality and testing are approached across the organization.

Responsibilities

Test Strategy & Planning

• Define test strategies and plans for new features and product initiatives.

• Partner with Engineering and Product to identify risks and determine testing requirements.

• Develop and execute automated, manual, regression, and exploratory testing strategies.

• Test Automation

• Design, develop, and maintain automated UI, API, integration, and regression tests.

• Build and improve automation frameworks using tools such as Pest, Jest, Playwright, or similar.

• Identify opportunities to increase automation coverage and improve test reliability.

CI/CD & Quality Engineering

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

• Monitor test results and troubleshoot failures.

• Establish and track quality metrics such as test coverage, defect rates, and flaky tests.

Defect Management

• Identify, document, and track defects throughout the development lifecycle.

• Work closely with developers to identify root causes and validate fixes.

• Perform exploratory testing for complex or high-risk features.

Mentorship & Process Improvement

• Mentor other QA engineers and review test plans and automation code.

• Promote QA best practices across the Engineering organization.

• Evaluate and introduce new testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies.

• Participate in performance, load, security, or accessibility testing when applicable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Software Testing, QA, or a similar role.

• Strong automation experience with tools such as Pest, Jest, Playwright, Appium, or similar.

• Strong programming/scripting skills in PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar.

• Experience with API testing using Postman, REST Assured, or similar tools.

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong understanding of test planning, regression testing, risk-based testing, and QA methodologies.

• Experience with Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar tools.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Full professional proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

Bonus Points

• Experience with performance/load testing tools such as JMeter, k6, or Gatling.

• Experience testing microservices or distributed systems.

• Security or accessibility testing experience.

• Previous QA leadership or mentoring experience.

• ISTQB certification or equivalent.

Who You Are

• You're a hands-on QA engineer who enjoys solving complex testing challenges.

• You think proactively about risks and edge cases, not just existing bugs.

• You enjoy building automation that makes teams faster and more confident.

• You're comfortable collaborating closely with developers and product teams.

• You naturally look for ways to improve processes, tools, and testing practices.

• You enjoy mentoring others and helping raise the quality standards of the team.