Mobility Technology: OBT Functional Testing Specialist

Accenture PLC; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking an experienced Functional Testing Specialist to join the Mobility Technology / Digital Enablement team in India. You will focus on manual testing of internal travel applications, including Online Booking Tools and integrated platforms, ensuring end-to-end QA for reservation systems and travel policy engines.

The role requires strong functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing capabilities, with exposure to API and SOAP/XML RESTful integrations and GDS/NDC

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years of software testing experience.

Responsibilities

• Test planning and design for internal travel applications.
• Test execution across releases and sprints.
• Validate complex booking journeys and policy configurations.
• API and integration testing with Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport, and NDC.
• Defect management in Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Collaborate with teams to retest and resolve defects.
• Estimate testing effort and support release readiness.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and stakeholder communication.
• Data validation and PNR-related checks.

Skills

Manual testing

Functional testing

Regression testing

Integration testing

End-to-end testing

UAT

SQL

API testing

Test planning

Communication

Education

15 years of formal education

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

ALM

Excel

Notion

Google Sheets

Trello

Job description

About the Role Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Functional Testing Specialist to join the Mobility Technology / Digital Enablement team. The role will focus on manual testing of internal travel applications, particularly Online Booking Tools (OBTs) and integrated travel-technology platforms.

Primary Objective Own end-to-end quality assurance for reservation platforms and help ensure reliable operation of corporate travel policy engines, air and hotel booking workflows, GDS/NDC integrations, payment gateways, and downstream systems.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing. They will combine analytical thinking and attention to detail with effective cross-functional collaboration and a sound understanding of travel-domain processes. Prior travel-industry experience is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Test Planning and Design: Create, document, and maintain detailed manual test cases for internal travel applications, with particular emphasis on Online Booking Tools. Requirements Analysis: Understand travel business processes and translate business and technical requirements into clear, practical, and testable scenarios. Test Execution: Perform functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, integration, and end-to-end testing across releases and sprint cycles. Booking-Path Validation: Test complex, multi-tier booking journeys across air, hotel, rail, and car rental, including corporate travel policies, approval workflows, and profile synchronization. API and Integration Testing: Validate XML/JSON RESTful and SOAP integrations between the OBT and GDS platforms such as Sabre, Amadeus, and Travelport, as well as NDC aggregators and direct supplier connections. Payment and Downstream-System Validation: Verify corporate, virtual, and ghost-card processing and confirm accurate data transmission to mid-office, back-office, and expense-management systems, including SAP Concur and Chrome River. Defect Management: Identify, isolate, document, prioritize, and track defects in Azure DevOps or Jira, providing clear reproduction steps, appropriate severity levels, and supporting evidence. Retesting and Resolution: Collaborate with development teams to resolve defects and complete retesting to confirm that fixes work as expected. Delivery Planning: Estimate testing effort, identify risks, and support mitigation planning to enable timely, high-quality releases. Agile Delivery: Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, requirement discussions, development cycles, and retrospectives, providing timely quality‑assurance input. Stakeholder Communication: Keep Product, Technology, and business stakeholders informed about testing progress, risks, blockers, quality concerns, and release readiness. Data Validation: Query databases to verify backend transaction states, profile‑data mapping, and Passenger Name Record (PNR) generation. AI‑Enabled Testing: Use AI tools where appropriate to support test‑case creation, test‑data preparation, defect analysis, and defect summarization. Continuous Improvement: Analyse user feedback and improve testing processes, documentation, test coverage, and overall quality‑assurance practices.

Must have

• 6-8+ years of overall software testing experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience in manual testing.
• 15 years of formal education.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proactive, curious and continuous‑improvement mindset.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with AI, data analytics and digital technologies.
• Experience in UAT and working with cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to simplify complex themes
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic understanding of the product development lifecycle.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodology is a plus.
• Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Trello, Notion, Excel, or Google Sheets is preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced environment.
• Eagerness to learn and take ownership of tasks.
• Basic understanding of UI/UX principles.
• Familiarity with SQL, analytics tools, or wireframing tools is an added advantage.

Required Skills

• 6 to 8 years of core software testing experience, with at least 5+ years dedicated to online tech platforms B2B and B2C
• Experience in a cross‑border global role, successfully managing multiple complex projects at a global level
• Outstanding communication skills

Optional/Preferred skills

• 3 to 6 years of core software testing experience, with at least 2+ years dedicated to travel‑tech platforms, corporate travel booking engines, or OTA (Online Travel Agency) ecosystems.
• Experience or working knowledge of the travel domain, especially online booking applications and travel business processes.
• Understanding of the travel lifecycle, including PNR creation, ticketing, modifications, cancellations, refunds, void windows, and corporate travel policy configurations.
• proficiency with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI).
• Solid hands‑on experience using test management software (e.g., Jira/Zephyr, ALM, Azure DevOps).
• Intermediate proficiency in SQL for backend database verification (joins, indexing, basic data manipulation).
• Familiarity with web debugging tools (Chrome DevTools) to analyse network traffic, errors, and payloads.
• Conceptual understanding or basic exposure to automation testing frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, or RestAssured) to help transition manual workflows to automation.

Certifications

ISTQB or equivalent software testing certification Preferred Not mandatory

Work Experience

• 8-10 Years of end-to-end functional testing of any online B2C/B2B product preferably travel booking systems

About Accenture

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