QA Engineer

Amadeus; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Amadeus is seeking a QA Engineer to join their team in Greater London. The role involves defining test strategies, designing and executing test cases, preparing environments, and providing go/no-go decisions based on exit criteria. You will maintain regression suites, manage defects, and report progress to stakeholders.

Mentoring peers and promoting QA best practices are part of the remit. Candidates should have strong QA knowledge, experience with automation frameworks, and be able to

Qualifications

• Must have strong knowledge of QA methodologies and practices.
• Experience with test automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to design traceable test plans and cases.
• Strong collaboration with developers and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategy and plan with traceability to requirements.
• Design and execute test cases and scripts.
• Prepare test environments and data and perform tests.
• Provide go/no-go decisions based on exit criteria.
• Maintain and enrich regression suites and CI/CD tests.
• Manage defects, prioritize, investigate and verify fixes.
• Report progress and testing milestones to stakeholders.
• Mentor and support QA peers and newcomers.
• Advocate QA best practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Quality assurance

Test automation

Defect management

Test planning

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Automation framework

CI/CD tools

Job description

Job Title

QA Engineer

Vision-Box, an Amadeus company and the global leader in biometric-based travel solutions, digital identity, and seamless travel management, is looking for a QA engineer.

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

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

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

Our ideal candidate

• Must be able to obtain UK SC Clearance (requires a minimum of 5 years UK residence).
• Must be willing to learn and grow. The collaboration, customer orientation and learning skills are going to be key for success on this role.
• Will be ok to work on site and at our customers sites (airports).
• Has a technical interest or first experience in a technical / software environment.

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, andas 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, ethnicity, sexual orientation,age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.