QA Engineer

Job description

**Job Title** QA Engineer ## **Nature of Work:** - You will contribute as a team member in testing and quality assurance of application features - You will work with cross-functional and distributed teams to validate new features and enhancements - You will execute functional, API, and basic automation tests for product components - Participate in testing of applications (UI, backend, APIs) to ensure quality and reliability ## **Participate in QA Activities by:** - Executing test cases and contributing to test planning activities - Supporting automation efforts for regression and functional testing - Identifying, logging, and tracking defects effectively - Ensuring basic quality standards and contributing to system stability ## **Collaborate across teams by:** - Working closely with developers, QA members, and product teams - Participating in sprint ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, retrospectives) - Supporting junior members and sharing knowledge within the team - Managing assigned testing tasks/modules independently with some guidance # **About the Ideal Candidate** ## **Education & Experience** - University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent - **5–8 years of experience in QA / Automation Testing** ### **Technical Skills** - 5–8 years in **QA / Functional Testing** - Strong understanding of **SDLC / STLC** - Backend testing using **SQL (Oracle / MySQL)** - API testing with **Postman / SOAP UI** - Automation exposure: **Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress** Basic **UI & API automation** Awareness of **automation frameworks** - Basic programming knowledge in **Java / JavaScript** - Understanding of **OOP concepts** ### **Tools & Platforms** - CI/CD exposure ( **Jenkins or Azure Devops** ) - Version control ( **Git** ) - Build/testing tools ( **Devops, XUnit, TestNG** ) - Data formats: **JSON, XML, HTML, CSS** ### **Modern QA Expectations** - Awareness of **AI-assisted testing tools** : Test generation Self-healing automation Tools like **Testim, Functionize (or similar)** ### **System & QA Awareness** - Basic understanding of: API validation & contracts Logging & debugging Test automation strategies - Exposure to **Agile (1+ year)** **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 **Diversity & Inclusion** Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience. Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race,