Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

We're growing our team in Poland and want to be upfront about how this role is structured. As we don't yet have a legal entity in Poland, we work with an Employer of Record (EOR) or umbrella company to onboard talent in the region. This means the role is offered on a fixed term basis via an international contractor agreement — and is fully remote.

Purpose of the job

We’re looking for a SDET who’s passionate about quality; not just as a phase, but as a core part of how great software gets built. In this role, you’ll help shape what “great” looks like for our engineering, including setting test standards, supporting engineers and making sure quality is everyone’s responsibility. This role requires strong software development skills, deep understanding of distributed systems, and the ability to influence quality across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). You’ll be embedded in a collaborative environment where software is shipped fast, iteratively, and often. Your work will focus on making sure things don’t just work but work well together. You’ll bring clarity, structure and confidence to the way we test by balancing automation with human insight and keeping the end-user in mind. You would drive the automated testing efforts covering contract testing, smoke testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing ensuring that we deliver fast with full confidence. You’ll bring your considerable knowledge of test automation to help us build new products that are reliable, secure, performant, and resilient. If you’re curious, love asking the awkward questions, and want to support software engineers build and iterate quickly, you’ll thrive here.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks from scratch or extend existing ones
Define and uphold the standards for test quality, ensuring consistency and confidence in our releases.
Write high quality, maintainable integration and end-to-end tests that follows production engineering standards.
Build reusable test utilities, mocks, and simulators.
Contribute to and help evolve the overall test strategy for one or more products or services
Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking fromday one, and not as an after-thought.
Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing, and regression coverage.
Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration into our CI/CD pipelines.
Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, helping teams keep them lean, relevant, and valuable.
Actively test front-end, back-end, API, and distributed microservices using tools like
Playwright, Cypress, Postman, RestAssured and other modern frameworks.
Perform and organise performance testing with tools such as K6, JMeter.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration is properly tested.
Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support on manualQA, and signing-off changes.
Investigate defects and production issues; ensure fixes are validated through automation

Preferred

Computer Science or Information Technology degree, Diploma or similar
CSTAE or ASTQB ISTQB Advanced Certification
Certified Automation Tester (i.e. Cypress, Playwright)
Familiarity with pipeline and event-driven systems (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, AWS Step
Functions, queues, streams, Snaplogic)

Non Negotiable

4+ years experience in Test Automation
Strong hands-on experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks and API testing tools, not just executing them
Confident writing automated tests in Typescript.
Expertise in Designing and Executing End-to-End Test Strategies that aligns with Agile delivery
Solid experience embedding quality early in the SDLC by working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Principal Engineers and Delivery Managers
Experience working in agile continuous delivery teams, including daily coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate, prioritize, and drive resolution of defects based on reproducibility, business impact, and release scope

Personal Attributes

Quality mindset – deeply values software quality and strives for continuous improvement across teams
Collaborative nature – works well and constructively challenge engineers, product managers, and delivery managers to embed quality early in the SDLC
Proactive attitude toward continuous improvement, always seeking better ways to optimize automation
Critical thinker – approaches testing with curiosity and rigor; digs deep to uncover root causes
Adaptability – comfortable with change and able to pivot priorities in fast-paced, agile environments
Detail-oriented – thorough in reviewing test cases, strategies, and outcomes without losing sight of the bigger picture
Ownership-driven – takes responsibility for the overall health of the QA process and quality outcomes
Learner - willing to learn and adapt as systems and tools evolve

Interview Process

We want our process to be fair and transparent, so it’s only right that we tell you what the various interview stages are:

Stage 1– We'll do a screener call with our recruitment team, where you can learn a bit more about

Collinson, our values and we can confirm what you’re looking for in a new role.

Stage 2– We'll do a short call with one of our Engineering Managers for around 30 minutes, who will

tell you more about the team, our products, technology and ask questions about your career history

and suitability for the role.

Stage 3– You will do a technical test (at home), and we’ll review your solution and approach to it.

Stage 4– This is final and main stage, where we’ll meet you for 60-90 minutes, and you’ll get to

spend time with different members of the engineering team (Engineering Manager/Lead). We’ll also

go through your technical test and ask questions on some of your decisions and implementation.

Stage 5- 60 minute discussion with our Head of Architecture & Engineering

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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