Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Airline Industry Experience, Airport Operations)

Role: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Airline Industry Experience, Airport Operations)

Skills: QA, API, Kafka, Payment system, Airport Departure Control System, Flight Management, Weight, Balance

Location: London, UK (Hybrid)

Type: Permanent

Job Description:

• Preference for intermediate and senior (5+ year experience) profiles
• Functional, integration, system, and end-to-end testing
• Test case design, execution, and defect management
• Regression and non-regression testing in complex and distributed systems
• API testing and validation (eg, REST, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI)
• Test automation frameworks (UFT and Robot Framework) and automated regression testing
• Performance, security, and exploratory testing (where applicable)
• Testing cloud-native applications and microservices-based architectures
• Agile testing practices, including continuous testing and shift-left approaches
• Test management and defect tracking tools
• Event-driven architectures and event streaming technologies (eg, Kafka)
• AI-enabled testing approaches and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations (an advantage)
• Collaborate closely with Functional Analysts (PDAs), Developers, Product Owners, and Architects throughout the software development life cycle
• Validate implemented solutions against functional designs, acceptance criteria, and business requirements
• Define test strategies and ensure comprehensive functional and non-functional test coverage
• Identify, analyse, and communicate defects, risks, and quality improvements
• Ensure the quality of customer deliverables within Agile delivery timelines and release schedule
• Customer Management ( DCS - Departure Control System), including our next gen Delivery Management System
• Flight Management including Weight and Balance