QA Engineer

Job Title

QA Engineer

Summary of the role:

As a Quality Assurance Engineer you will be a key member of the Business Intelligence R&D delivery team. Working predominantly in Agile environment, you will be working closely with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are being met to the right quality standards.

About the ideal candidate:

You should:

• Have required technical/functional knowledge and experience to make you successful

• Work using existing procedures or guidelines and provides inputs to support/influence area decisions. Makes recommendations on new solutions and proposes improvements by analyzing different sources of information

• Work with a moderate level of guidance and direction from manager

Common accountabilities:

• Has the required technical/functional knowledge and experience in own discipline. Knowledge of the Amadeus business and how it is related to own area.

• Works using existing procedures or guidelines and provides inputs to support/influence area decisions. Makes recommendations on new solutions and proposes improvements by analyzing different sources of information.

• Works with a moderate level of guidance and direction from manager.

Specific accountabilities:

Test strategy

• Attend to specification/architecture reviews (also on customer specification reviews when applicable), and provide feedback along with any potential impact, risk, issue or missed gap based on experience,
• Define test strategy and test plan containing test cases (functional and non-functional), ensure traceability with specifications and customer requirements,
• Ensure compliance of test strategy with CI/CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), QA best practices/standards from the industry (ISTQB..),

Test expertise

• Design test cases and write test case scripts.

• Prepare test environment, test data, and execute test cases.

• Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria,

• Continuously assess the need to add/update/remove test cases to existing regression and CI/CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (stabilization, deletion of flaky tests...),

• As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordingly,

Test automation

• Assess necessity to automate subset of (or all) test scripts,
• Use test automation framework and contribute to its improvement,

Defect management

• Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defects,
• Check defect fix, and give go/no-go for the load of production defects,

Reporting

• Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product definitions analysts,
• Provide visibility on testing campaign/milestones to all stakeholders,

Support

• Provide mentoring and adapted support to newcomers,
• Provide adapted support to QAE peers based on experience,

Knowledge sharing

• Share knowledge on a specific topic (technical/functional) and spread it among the QA community as well as other stakeholders,

Quality assurance ambassador

• Show accountability for the project, product or release quality control,
• Propagate quality assurance best practices based on highest standards in relevant teams and quality communities,

Technicity

• Efficiently use QA tooling stack and frameworks,
• Be a force of proposition for improvement of existing ones, or development of new ones,
• Be proactive about any issue/change that is likely to affect QA peers daily job

Continuous and sustainable improvement

• Be a driving force behind proposals to improve current quality processes in a constantly evolving development lifecycle framework (SAFE...),
• Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification, a plus.

Relevant work experience

• 5+ years of experience working as Quality Assurance Engineer in SaaS model

• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies

• Hands on experience in different types of functional testing

• Hands on experience in data driven testing

o Using SQL for data validation

• Hands on experience in API Testing

• Good to have:

o Exposure to automation testing using Selenium

o Exposure to programming language such as Java, JavaScript

Business understanding

Knowledge of travel industry and hotel in particular is a plus

Working at Amadeus, you will find:

A critical mission and purpose

• At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.

A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.

Great opportunities to learn

• Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.

A caring environment

• Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.

A complete rewards offer

• Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

A flexible working model

• We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.

A diverse and inclusive community

• We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.

A Reliable Company

• Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.

Application process:

The application process takes no longer than 10 minutes!

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Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.