Principal QA Engineer

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Information Technology • Travel
The Role

Job Title

Principal QA Engineer
Common accountabilities:
  • Apply advanced technical knowledge to help the team achieve shared goals and quality standards; lead in your area of expertise and mentor Specialists and Senior Specialists as needed.
  • Understand how key business drivers (for example, revenue, customer satisfaction, and time-to-market) affect your area; analyze complex, cross-functional problems; improve processes; recommend solutions and risk mitigation plans; and communicate complex information clearly.
  • Work with a high level of autonomy while aligning with management direction and collaborating across teams; lead or contribute to cross-functional projects and support planning for resources and budget.
Specific accountabilities:
  • Define and maintain the test strategy and plan for the project, product, or release; align with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Green IT guidelines, Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), Software Test Development Lifecycle (STDL), and industry Quality Assurance (QA) standards.
  • Establish clear decision-making and communication pathways between Amadeus and customer stakeholders; partner with customers during User Acceptance Testing (UAT); and clarify testing requirements for internal and cross–Business Unit (BU) work.
  • Oversee test activities, including the execution of brush tests (initial quick-validation tests); monitor and review results from Quality Assurance (QA) Engineers’ test campaigns; and provide timely sign-offs for functional, non-functional, regression validations, and releases.
  • Monitor software quality Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across testing phases; track issues; drive preventive and corrective actions; and ensure traceability to support long-term reliability and maintainability.
  • Deliver clear, regular quality reports to stakeholders (QA Engineers, Product Definition Analysts, and Software Development Engineers), summarizing progress, risks, and mitigation plans; collaborate with development, product/commercial, and cross-functional testing teams to prioritize requirements and streamline execution.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.  

Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.  

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The Company
HQ: Madrid
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1987

What We Do

Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want, linking them via travel agents, search engines and tour operators to airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.

Technology has always been critical to developing global travel, increasing scale, choice and access. We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for 30 years.

We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, and critical systems our customers need.

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