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title: 'Senior Automation Engineer at Navan'
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# Senior Automation Engineer at Navan

- **Company:** Navan
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8314103

## Job description

Navan Edge is an AI-powered personal assistant and concierge for frequent business travelers, on iPhone and web. It learns preferences, executes complex bookings, stacks rewards like hotel loyalty, and hands off to a 24/7 human concierge.

Edge is a chat product. Screens change with the conversation, and timing is not fixed. Writing stable UI automation for that is the core of this job. You'll plan and implement iOS and web automation for Edge, and define how the tests run, fail, and get owned.

What You’ll Do:

- Write and maintain UI automation for iOS (Maestro or equivalent) and web (Cypress or equivalent) on booking paths: hotels, flights, restaurants, loyalty.
- Make tests stable on a chat UI: no hard sleeps, variable copy and layout, streaming results. A failure should mean a real defect, not flake.
- Own coverage, stability, and effectiveness of Edge automation, and maintain the CI/CD for it (Bitrise, Jenkins, GitHub).
- Define the protocol: what runs, when, what blocks a release, what is informational, what is skipped and why.
- On failure: capture evidence, open a ticket with a named owner, retest after the fix.
- Keep pass rate, flake rate, and coverage visible in dashboards people use.
- Work daily with iOS, web, Edge, and SRE. Escalate quality risks early.

What We’re Looking For:

- 3 to 5 years building and owning UI automation, not only running an existing suite.
- Experience automating dynamic or conversational UIs, or a clear record of fixing flaky tests.
- Hands-on with agents and models: working with an agent product, MCP (or equivalent tool and agent interfaces), and enough model and LLM literacy to test and debug agent-driven UI. Not prompt research.
- iOS: Maestro, or Appium/XCUITest with the ability to work in Maestro.
- Web: Cypress or Playwright.
- Strong troubleshooting and clear communication. Tickets include evidence and a named owner.
- Comfortable in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have:

- Maestro and Cypress in the same role.
- Grafana.
- Bitrise (CI/CD platform).
- Slack and JIRA used a failure-to-ticket process.

Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.

Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.

- Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.

Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.

## About Navan

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Navan is the leading all-in-one, AI-powered business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes corporate travel effortless for frequent travelers while giving finance teams full control.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: **NAVN**, listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Corporate travel management, expense management, travel technology, payments.
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise companies; also SMBs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make travel easy for every traveler by being the best travel agency on the planet."

## Products & Services
- **Navan Travel**: AI-powered booking platform for flights, hotels, and ground transportation with extensive inventory access (including NDC content from 17+ airlines).
- **Navan Expense**: Automated expense management that categorizes and reconciles receipts, with real-time policy enforcement and integration with ERPs.
- **Navan Edge**: AI travel assistant (chat-based) that handles bookings and provides 24/7 human support.
- **Navan Rewards**: Incentive program that rewards employees for booking below budget.
- **Navan Connect (BYOC)**: Card-link technology that connects corporate cards from 250+ banks, enabling unified spend visibility.
- **Navan Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual cards for payments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results (post-IPO, real-time market cap available on exchanges).
- **Key Metric**: **Total Headcount** ~3,300 employees (as of 2026); **Number of customers** – thousands, including major enterprises like Heineken, Unilever, Wayfair, and Zoom.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources, but strategic partners include Amadeus (dual-GDS model) and major airlines via NDC.
- **Growth Signals**: Went public in October 2025; expanded globally through acquisitions of Comtravo (Germany), Resia (France), Tripeur (India), and Reed & MacKay (Europe); now operates 50 offices worldwide; first TMC to integrate AI across the entire platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first platform**: First travel management company to embed AI across search, booking, expense reconciliation, and customer service.
- **All-in-one T&E**: Combines travel, expense, and payments in a single system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Dual-GDS model**: Integrated with both Sabre and Amadeus, providing global coverage and competitive pricing.
- **NDC leader**: Offers access to 17 airlines’ New Distribution Capability content for better fares and inventory.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue leading in AI-powered travel and expense innovation.
- Expand corporate card and payments ecosystem (Navan Connect, external card linking).
- Deepen enterprise capabilities and global footprint (targeting mid-market and large multinationals).
- Drive user adoption through employee rewards and seamless mobile experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in office (Palo Alto HQ and other global offices). Strong emphasis on in-person collaboration.
- **Culture**: Meritocratic, high-ownership, “high-talent density” environment. Values include extreme ownership, bias to action, “AI-first mindset”, and “seriously fun”.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - Flexible vacation (take time off as needed, manager coordination).
  - Paid parental leave (16 weeks birthing parent, 10 weeks non-birthing).
  - 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discount.
  - Medical, dental, vision, pet insurance.
  - Commuter benefits, in-office snacks and lunches, dog-friendly offices.
  - Headspace mental health subscription.
  - Navan personal travel discounts (employee leisure bookings at corporate rates).
  - Connectivity allowance (bi-weekly stipend for remote work).
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling public company; teams across engineering, product, data science, travel operations, and R&D.

## Sources
1. [navan.com](https://navan.com/ – Product overview, platform details)
2. [navan.com/about](https://navan.com/about – Company history, mission, timeline, IPO)
3. [navan.com/careers](https://navan.com/careers – Culture, values, benefits, work model)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/navan – Headcount, offices, hybrid policy, perks)

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