Job Description

Job Title QA ENGINEER 4Common accountabilities:- Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.\xe2\x80\x8b
- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.\xe2\x80\x8b
- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.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...)
• Act as a pioneer and be part of implementation teams/workshops/taskforces for newest used tools/frameworks/technologies
• Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities

Diversity & InclusionAmadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity, Equity 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, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.

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