Systems Validation & Quality Engineer - Biometrics and Airport solutions

Amadeus; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vision-Box, part of the Amadeus family, seeks a Systems Validation & Quality Engineer for biometrics and airport solutions. You will define test strategies, develop and execute test cases, and ensure quality across hardware, software and networking components in secure, mission-critical environments such as airports.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with test automation, and willingness to work on customer sites including airports.

Qualifications

• Eligibility to obtain UK SC Clearance (minimum 5 years UK residence).
• Experience testing complex integrated systems with hardware, software and networking components.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Willingness to work on customer sites, including airport environments.
• Customer-facing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Attend specification/review meetings and provide feedback on gaps, risks and impact.
• Design and execute functional and non-functional test cases and scripts.
• Prepare test environments and data; execute tests and sign off features.
• Maintain and enhance regression and CI/CD test suites with feature delivery.
• Investigate PTRs, reproduce issues and enrich test suites.
• Assess and automate test scripts; contribute to QA tooling stack.
• Provide mentoring and support to QA peers.
• Share knowledge and promote QA best practices.

Skills

Test strategy

Test design

Test automation

Defect management

Hardware testing

On-site testing

Mentoring

Quality assurance

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Automation framework

Job description

Job Title Systems Validation & Quality Engineer - Biometrics and Airport solutions

Job Title Systems Validation & Quality Engineer - Biometrics and Airport solutions Vision-Box, an Amadeus company and the global leader in biometric-based travel solutions, digital identity, and seamless travel management, is looking for a Systems and Quality engineer. Important Eligibility Requirement Due to UK Government security clearance requirements, applicants must have continuously resided in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years and be eligible to obtain UK Security Check (SC) Clearance. This is an essential prerequisite for the role and applications not meeting this requirement cannot be considered. Vision-Box, an Amadeus company, is a global leader in biometric identity solutions, automated border control, and seamless passenger journeys. Our technology is deployed in major airports, border agencies, airlines, and transportation hubs worldwide, enabling millions of travelers to move securely and efficiently through every stage of their journey. Combining advanced biometrics, intelligent hardware, identity management platforms, and large-scale systems integration, Vision-Box delivers end-to-end solutions that include eGates, self-service kiosks, biometric enrollment systems, passenger processing platforms, and airport automation technologies. As part of Amadeus, Vision-Box is shaping the future of travel by creating secure, frictionless, and highly reliable experiences for passengers while supporting airports and government authorities in meeting their operational and regulatory requirements.

About The Role

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,

Hardware, Infrastructure & Field Validation

• Verify the correct operation of biometric kiosks, eGates and associated infrastructure.
• Support on-site testing activities at customer locations and airports.
• Investigate and reproduce issues observed in operational environments.
• Contribute to root-cause investigations involving hardware, networking, infrastructure and system integration.

Defect & Quality Management

• Identify, document and prioritize defects impacting system reliability, performance or operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with development, integration and deployment teams to validate corrective actions.
• Support production issue investigations and customer escalations when required.

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

Our ideal candidate

• Eligible to obtain UK SC Clearance (minimum 5 years UK residence requirement).
• Experience testing complex integrated systems combining hardware, software and networking components.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Willingness to work on customer sites, including airport environments.
• Customer-facing and communication skills

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 and committed to an accessible recruitment process. 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.