QA Engineer

Job Title

QA Engineer

As an experienced QA Automation engineer at Amadeus, you will play a crucial role in our software development lifecycle by working closely with team of QA testers and being a gate keeper in our release process to ensure high quality of our software application. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including Developers, Product Managers, and Business Analysts, to plan, design, review and execute comprehensive test strategies, focusing on automation testing. 

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

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