Job Location: Athens, GR
Job Type: Full Time, Fixed Term (c 18 months)
Job Purpose: This key role will ensure the quality of the systems that power our client journey and business workflows. With minimum 4 years of proficiency in Playwright, TypeScript, and git, the successful candidate will hold a central position in the development and enhancement of our proprietary software. The hands-on work will comprise both manual and automated testing. The successful candidate should have excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with non-technical members of the wider business.
Reports To: Lead Test Automation Engineer (based in London)
Direct Reports: n/a
Working Partnerships: Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, Operations
What we do
The Thinking Traveller manages an exclusive collection of luxury villas around the Mediterranean. Our knowledgeable sales team personally chats with our clients to matchmake them with the perfect villa. The Engineering team built all the tools that we need to make this as seamless as possible. We're backed by Piper Private Equity (Monica Vinader, Bloom & Wild, Yard Sale Pizza, Neom).
Technology at The Thinking Traveller
Our stack uses Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL hosted on AWS, and Next.js hosted on Vercel. We develop on a trunk-based repo with CI/CD and deploy multiple times per day. The existing team is made up of six product engineers, supported by a Product function responsible for product definition and design. We use Claude Code across the full development cycle — from planning through to delivery — to work faster, automate the repetitive, and keep our focus on solving real problems for the business.
Job Accountabilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust end-to-end test automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript
- Write and execute automated test scripts covering functional, regression, and integration scenarios
- Establish and document software quality assurance practices, procedures, and standards scaled to the organisation
- Collaborate closely with developers to investigate, analyse, and resolve defects, and drive feature and automation testing best practices
- Contribute to story planning and the definition of acceptance criteria within Scrum ceremonies
- Track, analyse, and report on software quality metrics across sprints and releases
- Act as a key point of escalation for software quality issues, driving resolution across the team
- Recommend and implement improvements to enhance software quality and user experience
- Keep current with industry trends, automation tooling, and best practices, actively bringing learnings back to the team
- Tackle challenges head‑on to consistently deliver results
Person Specification
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience in test automation, with strong proficiency in Playwright and TypeScript
- Deep understanding of testing methodologies including functional, regression, UAT, system integration, and exploratory testing
- Proven track record designing and building test automation frameworks from the ground up, not just maintaining existing scripts
- Demonstrable experience leveraging AI coding agents to work more efficiently, or genuine enthusiasm to adopt and master them quickly
- Solid knowledge of git and version control practices in a team environment
- Strong understanding of the Document Object Model and how to write reliable, maintainable locator strategies
- Experience with defect tracking tools such as Jira, or equivalent, and test management tools such as TestRail, or equivalent
- Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with usability and accessibility testing
- Experienced working within Agile/Scrum teams with a thorough understanding of the full test lifecycle and Quality Engineering's role within it
- Friendly, supportive, positive, can-do attitude
- Fluent in Greek and English
Nice to have
- Experience using Jira and writing clear and comprehensive developer documentation in Notion
- Experience of CI/CD pipelines
- You love travel!