ABOUT GLOBUS FAMILY OF BRANDS

With 95+ years in travel, the award-winning Globus family of brands – consisting of Globus, Cosmos, and Avalon Waterways – creates vacations that offer travelers culture-rich experiences featuring must-see sights, the stories behind the scenes and countless joy-filled memories in more than 70 countries on six continents across the globe. With equal measures vision and hard work; team collaboration and commitment; adaptability, honesty, and integrity as well as a genuine love for all-things-travel, the Globus family of brands – a leader in international travel – now offers unparalleled, perfectly planned tours; inventive, inspiring cruises and modern, independent vacation packages to millions of travelers.  

Travel and/or in-office presence may be required at times. Generous benefit package including travel benefits and retirement.

THE DEPARTMENT

The following teams make up the Technology department: Business Analysis and Quality Assurance, Applications Development, Applications Support, and Engineering. The group identifies and develops technological strategies that support GVI’s business goals and objectives to ensure internal and external partners are provided with stable systems. These include: all desktop, network, phone and email systems, applications (reservations and operations systems), websites, and Internet access.

THE POSITION

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Automation QA Specialist to join our development team. This role will be instrumental in driving quality across our digital platforms by designing and implementing robust automated testing strategies. You’ll work closely with developers, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure our solutions are reliable, scalable, and user-friendly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test cases for web and API applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and translate them into test strategies.
• Lead the QA effort in Agile sprints, including planning, execution, and reporting.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and issues using standard tools.
• Perform regression, performance, and integration testing as needed.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote best practices in test automation.
• Continuously improve test coverage, speed, and reliability of the QA process.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ensure automated tests are integrated and executed regularly.

EDUCATION

The preferred candidate will hold a bachelor’s degree in a related field; or three to five years’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

EXPERIENCE PREFERRED

The preferred candidate has noteworthy experience in the following areas:

• 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with a strong focus on automation.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, C#, Java).
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or similar.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs using tools like Postman or REST Assured.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and QA best practices.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience with performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, k6).
• Exposure to low-code or hybrid development environments.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• ISTQB or similar QA certification is a plus.

EOE

While performing this job, it will require: Eight (8) hours or more a day of sitting; walking; standing; bending; answering the telephone; entering data into the computer; retrieving data from the computer or analyzing data from reports.