Software Quality Assurance Engineer - New Distribution Capability - X Shopping

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Job Description:

Shaping the future of travel has always been important to us at Amadeus. Today, with technology getting smarter by the minute, that future is more exciting than ever.

Amadeus works at the heart of the global travel industry and provides the technology which keeps the travel sector moving - from initial search to making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to managing check-in and departure processes.

Our products and solutions help to improve the business performance of our customers; travel agencies, corporations, airlines, ground handlers, hotels, railways, car rental companies, airports, cruise lines and ferry operators.

Missions at Amadeus offer the opportunity to learn and grow in an exciting and multicultural environment.

Entity: SSP Organization (Search, Shopping and Pricing)

Finding and Pricing travel options are functionalities at the heart of our industry.

In today's business context of fierce competition, search & price is the new innovation battlefield in travel: achieving excellence and constantly bringing innovation is paramount for Amadeus to be successful.

The SSP product engineering group has pooled competencies/skillsets in order to:

  1. Reinforce the business importance of search
  2. Bring merchandising & customization at the heart of pricing
  3. Enhance big data technologies & machine learning to make our transactions more relevant to the user context

Introducing the Search Intelligence and Orchestration (SIO) Department

The mission of SIO department is to build the best system to target shopping content in a technical challenging context of more than 15k TPS. We find personalized solutions to fit customers' needs to improve their bookability: response time, accuracy, findability, and content diversity are some levers we can use. We aim at being the entry point for all shopping-related transactions.

Summary of the role

More precisely, you will integrate a new scrum team which is working on the NDC-X Shopping (New Distribution Capability) for Travel Agencies.

Your mission is to perform professional and standardized functional validation as well as compliance verification for NDC-X shopping (back-end) applications, in order to detect functional issues as early as possible in the development cycle and avoid their propagation to the production system.

To do so, the mission is to analyse and review functional specifications, design test cases and turn them into a blend of manual and automated scripts. Then execute the test plan, providing project stakeholders with test reports and ultimately give a GO/NO GO decision. You will also accompany the migration of the regression test suite to ensure that the existing campaigns still usable.

Besides, the mission includes the active participation to cultural change towards an even greater experience for Amadeus customers, by interacting with Amadeus quality teams as well as with product definition and software development counterparts.

In a continuous improvement spirit, the mission also includes the contribution to the definition, implementation and rollout of new quality processes.

Tooling environment

Distributed systems, XML/JSON, Excel, Word, Python or other scripting languages, HP ALM or equivalent, JIRA, SoapUI.

Your main accountabilities

  • Implementation of test strategy
  • Definition of test cases from customer’s requirements and ensure traceability with specifications.
  • Writing of test plans (functional and/or non-functional).
  • Improvement of regression test repository.
  • Design and performance of tests
  • Design of test cases and development of automated test case scripts.
  • Preparation of test environment, test data, and execute test cases.
  • Raise of defects and track their resolution.
  • Giving of Go/no-go for the customer’s test campaign.
  • Control of quality of project, product or release.
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Participation in specification reviews to sharing of input on testing requirements.
  • Reporting and communication on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product - - definition analysts

About the ideal candidate

The perfect candidate would have:

-University degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

  • ISTQB Foundation certified
  • English professional
  • Good team spirit, proactive, taking initiatives, good analytical skills
  • 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance covering:
  • Test script automation, Test management tool such as HP Quality Center or equivalent, Languages and Technologies: Python, XML, REST JSON API, Jenkins, GIT Bitbucket -Appreciated: experience or knowledge of Agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban) or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

What we can offer you

Get rewarded with a competitive remuneration, an individual and company bonus and enjoy many benefits. Work from anywhere: Flexible teleworking from 1 day per week to full weeks to full remote, you will also benefit from a home office setting-up Premium & monthly allowance. Experience in an environment with unique complexity and a hardly matched criticality among the leading tech companies. Professional development in a truly international and multisite environment with a great mix of people.    A wide set of trainings available to broaden your knowledge and enhance your soft skills including onsite and on-line learning hubs packed of technical and soft skills to help to develop any competencies. 6 weeks holiday, plus pension contribution and healthcare insurance.  Enter a diverse and inclusive workplace. Enjoy your office life: Coffee hubs to work or relax, quiet zone, flexible desks and agile areas, on site restaurants, tennis, soccer, yoga, dance, on-site sport center and classes and on-site conciergerie services. 

We are a global company full of the greatest innovators, delivering breakthrough solutions. We know that they deserve the best rewards, and so do you if you join our team!

To build a career that is meaningful to you, we will follow you on each step of this journey by offering training, international mobility, a wide range of internal opportunities to grow your skills and different types of career paths.

Join our engineering community that counts more than 2500 members in Nice and 4000 worldwide.

We will provide you mentoring, training and continuous development opportunities.

Check out Tavleen’s testimony: “I started as a software developer in Amadeus Nice. In 2013, I was ready for my next opportunity at Miami in the new world of Operations. By 2015 I was now backpacking to take the next challenge: lead a development team of Operational in another location: Munich, Germany. This role got me the opportunity to lead and build high performance agile teams, to improve my capacity in drinking “weissbier” & to speak another language. I did fairly good in all except the last one!”

How do we hire?

The application process takes no longer than 10 minutes!

Online application: Submit your online application and our Talent Acquisition specialist will get back to you if your skills match the role. Phone Interview: We'll get to know each other with a short casual conversation. You'll also have the chance to ask questions. Online Testing: Depending on the role you applied for, you might have to do some online tests. Interviews: First you'll meet one of our talent teams. Then you'll have an interview with a member or members of the team you're looking to join. Offer: Our Talent team will make you a job offer and welcome you to your new role with us. Join our global team: Where you can develop your skills and build an international career that matters.

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