Quality Assurance Engineer

Job description

Shaping the future of travel is important to us at Amadeus. Today, with technology getting smarter by the minute, that future is more exciting than ever.

Our business success relies on our people being always passionate about what we do. We believe in aiming for excellence, taking responsibility, working together and putting our customers first.

We encourage you to be part of new and exciting projects and for you to take the lead when it comes to your progression.

Since mobility allows you and Amadeus to grow, we always look internally first when searching for candidate.

Amadeus Benelux NV - Antwerp is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer on a contractor basis.

Overal purpose:

Develop, execute and maintain software test scenarios, with the aim of keeping the software at expected quality level. Accountable for test strategy implementation.

Main activities:

· Implement test strategy for their area, in compliance with the global test strategy
· Participate in specification reviews to provide input on testability requirements
· Responsible for the project, product or release quality control
· Define test cases from customer’s requirements. Ensure traceability with specifications
· Write test plan (functional and/or non functional and/or non regression)
· Design test cases
· Develop automated test case scripts
· Prepare test environment and test data, and execute the test cases
· Provide go/no-go for their test campaign
· Provide information to developers in order to fix defects. Perform issue fix verification
· Give go/no-go for the load of Production PTRs
· Responsible for issues sorting meeting
· Document software defects
· Responsible for reporting and communicating on test activities to the line organization, software developers and business analysts
· Ensure improvement of non regression test repository

Education

· Bachelor or Masterdegree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience

Professional skills (IT skills)

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Ability to use scripting programming languages: at ease with xml, EDIFACT, regular expressions. Python is a big plus

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Nice to have: VB scripts, Java, Selenium, SQL

Professional skills (Methods & Processes)

· Product Development Life Cycle: The understanding of the process related to a software development process, such as requirement, specification & architecture design, programming, testing, documenting, deployment and maintenance.
· Quality Assurance: Ability to verify that features and functionality meet business objectives, and that code is relatively bug free prior to releasing new software products and versions. Ability to follow the QA principles: 'Fit for purpose' (the product should be suitable for the intended purpose) and 'Right first time' (mistakes should be eliminated).
· Standard Project Mgt Methodology:

Ability to handle the different phases of a project, following Amadeus methodology and using standard project management tools:

· Project organization
· Project Initiation
· Planning, estimating and scheduling
· Executing
· Monitoring and controlling
· Risk management
· Project closing

· Testing:

Capacity to apply the concurrent lifecycle process of engineering, using and maintaining testware (test cases, test scripts, test reports, test plans, etc) to measure and improve the quality of the software being tested. Testing embraces the planning, design, management, execution and reporting of tests, using appropriate testing tools and techniques and conforming to agreed standards (such as ISO), to ensure that new and amended systems, configurations, packages, or services, together with any interfaces, perform as specified.

ISQTB Certified, at least basics, a +

Soft Skills

· Analytical thinking
· Communication basics
· English
· Teamwork

Job Experience

· Working in a travel agency would be plus.
· Working as a tester in an IT environment is a bigplus.

The posting of vacancies and the treatment of applications are, in each Amadeus location, subject to national law and possible collective agreements with local staff representation. Internal Mobility policies vary from office to office, please check with your local HR representative the requirements and policy in place. E.g. a minimum time on position or Line Manager approval may be requested.