Trainee (m/w/d) Energy Transformation Verfahrenstechnik

Job Title

The Senior QA Engineer has proven ability in understanding complex systems and software and their interactions at a system level with demonstrated ability to decompose these systems into small independent units of work that can be developed, tested and released, providing incremental architectural and business value. The Senior QA Engineer is able to clearly communicate and train other team members on the complexities of the system. The Senior QA Engineer understands user and partner interactions with the system and software to ensure a great user experience.

The Senior QA Engineer works on all aspects of the development cycle as part of a dedicated scrum team ensuring the quality output of the team meets the organizations expectations. To meet this expectation, the Senior QA Engineer will provide the necessary coaching and mentoring required to all scrum team members while continuously identifying ways to improve quality and efficiency.

Main responsibilities

Advocate for Quality:

• Develop and improve high quality standards in how work items are written, coded, and validated.
• Be an advocate for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) process and procedure

Domain knowledge:

• Understand how users or partners interact with the system and software, translate business requirements into user interactions, provide feedback to the UX team to ensure a great user experience.

Contribute to the creation of Features/Stories/Bugs (Work Items):

• Participation in review and sizing of work items to be sure they have comprehensive Descriptions and Acceptance Criteria
• Ensure proper sizing of all work items to be able to plan and execute.

Delivery of work items:

• Work with your team to correct quality deficiencies, such as improperly defined stories, insufficient unit coverage, lack of negative test cases, lack of performance testing, etc…
• All Amadeus Hospitality and team level ‘Definition of Done’ requirements are met for all work items.
• All artifacts, including test cases, changesets, related documentation, etc. are accurate and properly linked to the User Story or Bug in our system of record.
• The work items meets a level of quality where it is determined by you to be “fit for use” i.e. customer ready.
• The work items have followed accepted development best practices including peer coding, code reviews, and acceptance test driven development (ATDD) to drive clarity in requirements and prevent ambiguity from generating defects and rework.
• Be a contributor in the software deployments, fully understanding the development and release process
• Creation of monitoring to support new services.
• Participate in the validation and acceptance of work items
• Deliverables progress on cadence throughout iterations and program increment to allow for a smooth delivery cycle

Interactions across the Agile Release Train:

• Open and honest communication of successes, challenges, risks and impediments to the ART and/or Business Owners in a timely manner to provide transparency and alignment across the organization.
• Be able to articulate to any audience the functionality of all work items of your team and answer questions related to how it was tested
• Seek opportunities to work with other developers & testers on your ART, ensuring Operational Consistency, to be sure that testing best practices are followed beyond your immediate team.

Coaching:

• Provide coaching and mentoring in the Acceptance Test Driven Development process.
• Advocate that new feature/story work retains continuity across existing product lines.
• Coach and mentor other team members on your agile team.

Have advanced knowledge of:

• Understanding complex systems and software.
• Driving QA process and standards across the team and greater Agile Release Train

Ownership:

• Foster a sense of ownership among your team to follow and embrace SAFe process and procedure.
• Be a strong contributor and have great motivation to self-drive with little guidance.

Automation:

• Development and maintenance of Automated Test frameworks.
• Participate in automation code reviews.

Be a champion of quality in all that you do.

Education

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Relevant work experience

• Minimum of 6 years of Quality Assurance experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with continuous improvement and continuous delivery initiatives, such as DevOps and Lean Agile
• Experience with ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development)
• Familiarity with Lean/Agile methodologies
• Experience with providing leadership and/or technical mentoring
• Significant experience working with large complex systems including service oriented architectures
• Proficiency in software measurement, metrics and analytical techniques
• Proven development and coding expertise using automated test tools and frameworks
• Coding experience with object oriented languages
• Experience with cloud technologies

Business understanding

Current or previous exposure in the hospitality industry a plus
Examples include: CRS, CRM, Loyalty, PMS, S&C, RMS, Service Optimization, Distribution, HTNG, Business Intelligence

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.