Senior QA Engineer

About Your Business Area/Department:

AODB is a team dedicated to delivering comprehensive solutions for airports, focusing on schedule, flight, and airport resource management. Our solutions facilitate efficient schedule management for both summer and winter seasons, ensuring seamless operation of all flight activities, including ground operations.

We assist airport clients in enhancing travelers' experiences by optimizing operational efficiency and scheduling. Our expertise enables accurate turnaround management predictions, contributing to smoother airport operations.

Summary of the role:

Jump into the exciting realm of airport tech with us! You're about to become a key player in transforming airport and travel operations worldwide. In our dynamic team, you'll dive deep into the tech that powers airports, working hands-on to develop solutions that make travel smoother and passenger journeys better. This is your chance to make waves in an industry that brings people together.

In this role you’ll:

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 analysing 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

About the ideal candidate:
We are seeking a skilled QA Engineer with expertise in full-stack developments and testing. The ideal candidate holds a university degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent field. With a minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience, including mentoring other team members, the candidate brings professional testing experience to the role. Proficiency in automation testing and familiarity with GIT are essential. The candidate should have experience with Jira, Scrum, and Agile methodologies, along with excellent communication (both oral and written) and analytical problem-solving skills. Providing technical guidance to the team is a key responsibility. Additionally, having knowledge of Jenkins, Octaine, Confluence, Selenium, travel domain (especially in airline and airport sectors), NoSQL databases (preferably Couchbase), and cloud technologies (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker) would be advantageous.

What we can offer you:

• Get rewarded with competitive remuneration, individual and company annual bonus, vacation and holiday paid time off, health insurances and other competitive benefits.
• Work onsite or hybrid
• Professional development to broaden your knowledge and enhance your skills with on-line learning hubs packed with technical and soft skills training that allow you to develop and grow.
• Enter a diverse and inclusive workplace, join one of the world’s top travel technology companies and take on a role that impacts millions of travelers around the globe.

🎯 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.

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