QA Engineer - Web Frontend

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! Our leading metasearch engine is super fast and constantly optimized - enabling millions of travelers to compare hotel prices from hundreds of booking sites and find great deals in just a few clicks. We use cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data to create an experience - time and money saved! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago you will find those who aren’t afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Join us in making a difference

Our Quality Assurance team ensures that our core web application can continue to evolve efficiently while maintaining reliability, excellent quality and making sure that new features are in the best possible shape before being released. You will be part of a team of 10 Quality Assurance Engineers, who work across different engineering teams developing our frontend website. You will be responsible to ensure that new features, bug fixes and technical changes are integrated seamlessly into the website. You will expand, improve and maintain our test automation suites and frameworks, by collaborating with other QA and Test Automation Engineers. Another essential aspect of your role will be monitoring and analyzing diverse data (e.g. product metrics, error logs, automated test results) to debug issues or detect hidden problems. We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated, proactive and detail-oriented to join our team and shape the quality of trivago’s website.

Are you ready to make an impact? Then we want to hear from you!

Get an inside look at trivago's engineering culture:

 

How you’ll make an impact:

• Working as part of a highly agile, multidisciplinary team, you’ll be tasked with testing changes to our core products, which can range from user-facing frontend feature changes to entirely new complex backend infrastructure setups.

• Identify defects by using manual/exploratory, automated and regression testing, as well as by performing data analysis using business intelligence tools. It will then be up to you to determine when new changes are ready to be shipped to our users.

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts to ensure the quality and reliability of our core web application.

• Effectively communicate with different stakeholders and clarify expectations regarding the progress and status of upcoming product changes.

What you'll need to thrive:

• 5+ years experience with manual and exploratory testing for the frontend of websites/software projects and hands-on experience with test automation, Selenium and Java (or any other OOP language).

• Solid understanding of web-based technologies e.g. HTML, CSS, JS, JAVA, GIT and APIs (learning on the job is also provided and encouraged).

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology.

• An impeccable eye for detail that allows you to spot even the smallest errors and unintended changes to our website.

• Excellent communication and coordination skills so you’re able to manage diverse stakeholder expectations diplomatically and collaborate efficiently within large, dynamic teams.

• Being open to change and relishing new challenges: adapting to new processes and structural changes as part of a highly-agile environment.

What you can look forward to: 

As you grow, so do we.

This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.

Moving to join us?

No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens.

We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, 2 WFH days weekly, the chance to work remotely for 20 days abroad, free access to the Heycare platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.

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