We are shaping the future of travel.

UI/UX Designer, South Africa / India

• Job listing
• 02-10-2025

Flying Carpet Travel is a pioneering digital destination management and travel fulfilment portal promoted by the founders of AirlinePros International, a leading network of airline and travel sales, distribution, marketing, and allied services.

As part of our Learn & Earn Program, we are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UI/UX Designer to design intuitive, engaging, and impactful digital experiences for students and travel partners.

The role will focus on designing the student-facing platform where learning modules, earning opportunities, and travel industry engagement converge. The designer will also contribute to the overall portal experience, ensuring accessibility, user satisfaction, and global appeal.

Key Responsibilities – General

• Design intuitive user flows for students engaging with Learn & Earn modules, booking tools, and dashboards.
• Develop wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups for both web and mobile platforms.
• Ensure seamless onboarding for students, making the program easy to navigate and visually appealing.
• Collaborate with the product, content, and tech teams to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Conduct user research and usability testing with students to refine designs.
• Create and maintain a design system aligned with Flying Carpet Travel’s brand identity.
• Ensure responsiveness and accessibility across devices and geographies.
• Stay current with digital learning, gamification, and travel-tech design trends.

Key Responsibilities – Program specific

• Create storyboards from modules developed, liaise with the program implementation partners with delivery methods including animation, video, gamification, live, role play, or any other.
• Support with creating engaging content including but not limited to quizzes and polls, drag-and-drop scenario questions, creation of microlearning nuggets, etc.
• Design and develop gamification tools like levels, leaderboards, and badges. Ideate competitions and challenges that inspire students.
• Work closely with the program team to develop adequate scenarios and simulation learning like role-plays, real life case studies come alive, travel fulfilment tools in a trial environment.
• You will also be responsible to create platforms for social and collaborative learning like discussion forums, peer reviews, live webinars and Q&A sessions.
• Ideate with module developers and implementors to identify where clickable videos, interactive infographics, hotspots, etc. can be placed for maximum immersion learning.
• Learning areas to be brought alive with progressive dashboards, personalized feedback on assignments, and simulated interactions as required.
• Devise methods of continuous engagement like reminders and nudges to keep students on track, rewards and certificates, ideally with imaginative titles like ‘boarding pass’ or ‘frequent flyer miles,’ etc.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in design, Digital Media, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Proven experience as a UI/UX Designer, preferably in edtech, travel, or e-commerce platforms.
• Strong portfolio showcasing interactive dashboards, learning platforms, or booking interfaces.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or InVision.
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks (bonus).
• Ability to simplify complex workflows into engaging, user-friendly journeys.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with global teams.

Valuable Additional Skills

• Experience in gamification and digital learning interfaces.
• Knowledge of accessibility guidelines (WCAG, ADA) for diverse student audiences.
• Familiarity with multilingual design for global scalability.
• Understanding of micro-interactions and animations to enhance engagement.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape a game changing global student travel-education platform.
• Creative freedom to design for impact at scale.
• Collaborative, multicultural team across 60+ global offices.
• Competitive compensation and professional growth opportunities.

Job location: South Africa / India

Work type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full-time

Apply online by filling out the form below, or email your resume to careers@flyingcarpet.travel.

Automation Tester

We are looking for a QA Engineer who is passionate about ensuring product quality and delivering exceptional user experiences. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise in manual and automation testing, with a strong focus on mobile app testing, automation frameworks, and exposure to performance and security testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test cases for web and mobile applications.
• Perform manual and automated testing for mobile apps (Android/iOS) and web platforms.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automation test scripts using Selenium (mandatory).
• Work with mobile testing frameworks like Appium and Espresso for native and hybrid apps.
• Contribute to performance testing using JMeter or similar tools.
• Collaborate with developers, BAs, and product owners to ensure alignment of requirements and testing.
• Participate in regression testing, UAT support, and defect triage meetings.
• Identify, log, and track bugs using Mantis/Jira or other defect management tools.
• Ensure compliance with QA processes, test standards, and best practices.
• Stay updated with emerging QA tools, techniques, and frameworks.

Required Skills & Experience

• Mobile App Testing (mandatory) – Strong hands-on experience in testing Android and iOS apps.
• Automation Testing:
  • Selenium WebDriver – mandatory.
  • Appium / Espresso – hands-on experience preferred.
  • Basic automation knowledge acceptable if willing to learn and grow.
• Performance Testing: Hands-on experience with JMeter or similar tools.
• Security Testing: Exposure/knowledge will be considered a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, SDLC, STLC, defect lifecycle.
• Knowledge of tools and frameworks such as TestNG, Maven/Gradle, Git (preferred).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments and learn quickly.

Qualifications

• Certification in ISTQB (Foundation Level or higher) is an advantage.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Job location: Kochi, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Interested candidates send your CV and Cover Letter to careers@flyingcarpet.travel with the subject line: Call Center Agent Application - Candidate name

Office Address:
5th Floor, Business Bureau, Opp. Federal Bank, Panampilly Nagar, Kochi.

Flying Carpet, the digital destination management portal, is developed by AirlinePros, the leading GSA, with over 70 airline clients and 60 offices worldwide. The portal redefines how destinations are marketed and experienced by promoting amazing destinations, sightseeing and adventure activities, and exploring culture and exotic traditions. We have a requirement for a business-cum-test analyst with the following key job responsibilities and qualifications.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and gather detailed business requirements.
• Propose and design technical and process solutions that meet business needs and objectives.
• Develop and document business process models to illustrate current and future states.
• Work with IT and other departments to implement solutions and ensure they align with business goals.

- Identify, document, and track defects and work with developers to resolve them.

- Execute test cases, test plans and ensure the product application meet functional and UI/UX requirements.

- Execute thorough testing to ensure product quality.

- Contribute to continuous improvement of the testing process.

• Creating and maintaining user manual and standard operational procedure with version.

Requirement

• Experience – 5+ years
• Graduate in any discipline. (Preferably in IT, BA or Travel)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with business process modeling and documentation tools.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.

Job location: Kochi, Kerala

Employment Type: Full-time

Apply online by filling out the form below, or email your resume to careers@flyingcarpet.travel.