We are awaze, the largest managed vacation rentals and holiday resorts business in Europe, which brings together some of the continent’s most trusted travel brands, including cottages.com, Hoseasons and NOVASOL.
With over 1.5 million bookings each year, we're proud to offer our guests a choice of over 100,000 properties in our portfolio, in 25 countries across Europe.
Position: QA Engineer (SDET) | Reservations Management Team (ResMan)
We’re entering an exciting new phase of our tech and product strategy, with a focus on innovation, experimentation, and conversion at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to elevate the web and mobile experience for our guests and owners, driving seamless journeys across all our group companies.
To achieve our goals, we’re looking to make some key hires—are you ready to be part of the transformation and help shape the future of the travel industry?
🏡 What team will you be joining?
“We’re the Reservation Management team, or ResMan for short. We look after the back-end systems that manage booking data at Awaze.
Think APIs, events and a UI for call centre agents. Whilst these systems were at one time fit for purpose, as we continue to bring our entire estate together, we're embarking on an exciting rebuild journey as we build out a new single common Reservations platform.“
If you’re passionate about building complex, high-impact solutions that serve our entire group, this is the team for you.
🏡 What will your role be?
Joining our engineering teams, you’ll join a culture which revolves around getting things done. We deliver with small, fully autonomous teams that have real ownership of their products using a cutting edge stack in a best-idea-wins meritocracy. We operate what we build – which means reliability is key and devops is part of every engineer’s job description.
* Take ownership of testing strategy in the team
* Lead on testing best practices to build quality applications
* Pair and mob with our engineers
* Triage bugs and issues
* Drive continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible
* Write automated tests to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are maintained
* Learn and adapt new technologies and introduce new testing tools to the project
* Contribute to continuous improvement of the group QA test strategy and process
* Be an active member of the wider tech community within Awaze
🏡 What will you offer?
We’re looking for an experienced QA Engineer | SDET, experienced in various technologies who loves nothing more than solving problems in a collaborative, agile development environment.
We expect our SDETs to work hand in hand with our Engineers and you'll therefore enjoy working in pairs (maybe sometimes a mob), your someone who thrives in an autonomous product engineering, and will offer experience in a number of the following:
* Writing automated tests for large scale applications, API's and cloud platforms
* Modern test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress and/or Testcafe
* Technologies such as Java, Kotlin, & Typescript
* Performance and observability testing
* Modern development tools such as Git, Visual Studio Code etc.
* Cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Terraform
* Modern quality practices, such as pairing, TDD, BDD
🏡 What will we offer you?
Upon joining, we’ll set out your journey with us with a personalised competency framework and we’ll give you the freedom to inform the best way of working to get the job done and help us shape the culture of our international teams.
We’ll also reward you with:
* Annual Bonus Scheme
* 25 days holidays (plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days)
* Holiday Discounts (18% to 20% discount across all AWAZE brands)
* Pension contribution scheme
* Private healthcare
* Personal training allowance via Sunlight
* 35 hour working week
* Hybrid working (we work 2 days in our Manchester office every week, with 3 days working from home)
* Meeting free lunch policy
🏡 Get in touch, we'd love to chat:
If you're interested in transforming the industry and reinventing how our technology powers everyday amazing holidays, please send your profile to jody.marks@awaze.com and let's chat today.