Overview
Quality Assurance Engineer Jobs in Romania at AirportLabs
Title: Quality Assurance Engineer
Company: AirportLabs
Location: Romania
AirportLabs provides Software-as-a-Service solutions to aviation customers worldwide. Our services must exceed the highest aviation standards (> 99.999% availability), supporting business-critical operations for airports of all sizes globally.
We are expanding our engineering team and looking for a QA Engineer who takes full ownership of quality – from exploratory and manual verification through to building and maintaining automated test suites.
Key facts
- 2000-3000 GBP gross salary per month, depending on job fit and experience level
- Yearly profit share and various performance and behavior-based bonuses
- In-office or hybrid (partial office & partial remote)
- Office location: Cluj-Napoca
- Contract based on PFA or SRL with our UK entity
- Paid holidays
About the role
As a QA Engineer at AirportLabs, you are expected to cover the full quality spectrum, from exploratory and manual testing through to building and maintaining automated test suites. You’ll work across product streams alongside developers and product managers to catch issues early and maintain a high-quality bar for products used by international airports worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Own quality end-to-end across assigned product streams, from requirements review and test design through to execution and sign-off
- Perform exploratory, functional, and regression testing manually, using your domain knowledge to identify edge cases
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites covering smoke, integration, and regression scenarios
- Perform API testing using Postman or equivalent tools
- Plan and execute load testing where applicable
- Document test coverage thoroughly; identify, record, and track defects, bugs, and errors with clarity and precision
- Contribute to and follow the agreed testing process; flag gaps or improvements proactively
- Share knowledge with the team by running informal demos or training sessions when you’ve learned something worth spreading
What we’re looking for
- Minimum 3 years of experience in QA, with a mix of manual and automation work
- Hands-on experience with a modern end-to-end automation framework – Cypress or Playwright
- Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – enough to write and debug test code confidently
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and where QA fits within it
- Ability to write clear, maintainable test suites and diagnose failures independently
- Excellent communication skills in both English and Romanian, written and verbal
- Strong self-management – you can prioritise your own workload without being micromanaged
Nice to have
- Advanced ISTQB knowledge
- Experience in aviation or safety-critical software
- CI/CD pipeline integration for automated tests
Recruitment process
We will use a two-step process for the recruitment of this role:
- You will have to complete an automation test. This will be over email, and you will be expected to respond within 5 business days (no extensions will be granted).
- A final interview with the candidates who have been selected based on the results from the assignment phase.
Growth paths
We actively support career development. Engineers who grow with us have moved into roles including QA team lead, business analyst, product manager, and frontend software developer.
Our values
We foster a values-driven culture. Colleagues who join our team are expected to live by: assertiveness, efficiency, grit, initiative, kindness & collaboration, knowledge transfer, openness, ownership, responsibility & accountability, predictability, psychological safety, and transparency.
