Senior QA Engineer - Shopping Orchestration

Job Title

Senior QA Engineer - Shopping Orchestration

Summary of the role:

If you’re thinking about your next career move and seeking fresh opportunities in the field of Quality Assurance (QA), this post is for you!

At the core of our industry lie Finding and Pricing travel options. In today’s fiercely competitive business landscape, the battleground for innovation in travel revolves around search and pricing. For Amadeus, achieving excellence and driving continuous innovation is not just a goal—it’s a necessity for success.

If you’re passionate about maintaining excellence, ensuring compliance, and driving continuous improvement, then this role is tailor-made for you!

Let me introduce you to the Shopping Intelligence and Orchestrator (SIO) department. We’re currently recruiting in Nice for the position of Senior QA Engineer.

In this role you'll:

• Understanding the SSP Ecosystem: Dive deep into the architecture and challenges of the Search, Shopping, and Pricing (SSP) ecosystem. Explore both functional and technical aspects, with a specific focus on Shopping Orchestration.

• Functional and Technical Leadership: As a functional and technical lead, you’ll define and propagate best practices related to QA methodology across the organisation. Your expertise will guide the team toward excellence.

• Scrum Team Collaboration: Join a dynamic scrum team that handles QA activities for backend-oriented features. These features include virtual Interlining, solution based on Machine Learning, and new content integration within Amadeus Travel Agency Rest API services.

• QA Transformation: Over the coming years, you’ll actively contribute to the implementation of QA transformation at the SIO level. The goal? To achieve  fast and high-quality deliveries for our valued customers.

If you’re ready to make an impact and be part of an exciting journey, consider joining us in the SIO Department. Your expertise will shape the future of travel technology!

- Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.​
- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.​
- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.

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 pr