About Planet
Planet is a global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers.
We create great experiences for the millions of people who use our payments, software, and tax-free solutions every minute of every day.
Planet empowers its customers to deliver great customer experiences by combining payments and software in ways that drive greater loyalty, increase revenue and save time.
Founded over 35 years ago and with our headquarters in London, today we have more than 2,500 employees located across six continents serving our customers in more than 120 markets.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to join our Hospitality team. The role combines functional testing and test automation, with automation as the primary focus. You will validate complex hotel management workflows across API and UI layers, define test strategies, and build automation that scales — while actively using AI tools as a core part of how you work every day.
What you will do:
Plan and execute functional and exploratory testing across hotel management workflows: reservations, billing, check-in/check-out, housekeeping, events, and guest profiles.
Test and validate REST APIs — requests, responses, status codes, data contracts, and edge cases.
Investigate, reproduce, and document bugs with clear, actionable reports.
Design, build, and maintain an end-to-end automation framework using Playwright and TypeScript, covering UI and API layers.
Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and maintain test reporting with Allure and Xray/Jira.
Use AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot) daily — for writing tests, debugging, generating test data, and reviewing automation code.
Apply AI-assisted approaches to test generation, root cause analysis, and flakiness reduction.
Mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews with a focus on quality and maintainability.
Collaborate with developers and product managers to define test strategies and shift quality left.
Who you are:
5 + years in QA engineering, with strong experience in both functional testing and automation.
Solid REST API testing skills — you can validate, debug, and reason about API behaviour independently.
Playwright and TypeScript expertise — you have built or significantly contributed to a Playwright framework.
Daily hands-on use of AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar) as part of your engineering workflow.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test reporting/traceability tools.
Nice to Have
Familiarity with the hospitality or hotel management domain.
Experience with AI-assisted test generation or self-healing selector strategies.
Knowledge of SQL for data validation or performance testing tools (k6, JMeter).
Experience with Xray/Jira for test management.
Why Planet :
Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast-paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce.
We would love to hear from you – Apply now.
At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.
Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of experience in test automation engineering
- Experience with Playwright
- Proficient in TypeScript
- API automation using REST Assured
- Experience with TestNG or JUnit
- Experience with Java backend services
- Experience with Protractor and Selenium WebDriver
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Proficient with Git and GitHub
- Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling)
- Experience automating tests for Angular and React applications
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and RESTful API testing
- Experience using Jira and Confluence for bug tracking and documentation
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical and mentoring skills
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What We Do
Planet is a leading global provider of integrated technology and payments solutions for retail and hospitality customers. We create great experiences for the millions of people who use our Payments, Software, and Tax Free solutions every minute of every day. Planet empowers its customers to deliver amazing customer experiences by combining payments and technology in ways that drive greater loyalty, increase revenue and save time. Founded over 35 years ago and with our headquarters in London, today we have more than 2,500 employees located across six continents serving our customers in over 120 markets
