Lead Principal QA Engineer @ Amadeus

Common accountabilities: - Has specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline or function. Provides expert guidance, promotes innovation and formally trains groups of less experienced professionals.

- Has a broad understanding of the environment and uses it to improve efficiency, recommends solutions/best practices and influence the strategy of the department. Translates the strategy of the activity into a concrete action plan for the area, setting and monitoring targets for the team.

- Works independently, based on management directions. May coordinate functional teams or projects and serves as a best practices/quality resource. Specific accountabilities: Operational Excellence

Technical Excellence

- Define and build QA methodology

- Act as a force multiplier to reinforce consistency and test coverage of complex/cross-functional solutions

- Define and build processes or tools to reach and maintain a high level of efficiency for defect management

- Expert in QA tools, environments and test automation solutions Functional Excellence

- Hold a proficient cross-product domain knowledge incl. relevant business processes scenarios and a proficient understanding of customer needs

- Lead customer triages/debug sessions on large projects and help the team with reproducing the problem in-house. Drive continuous and sustainable improvement

Contribute to internal / external forums and lead division-wise discussions around QA methodology / framework / tooling evolution

Strive to maintain very high-quality standards for Amadeus products

Lead patent filings and technical events in the QA area

Design and implement relevant KPI and ways of measuring them efficiently, for both software deliverables and compliance with Amadeus Quality Standards

Lead adoption and improvement of testing tools environments: promote existing ones to avoid duplication, evaluate them and recommend improvements

Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities Building relations Knowledge sharing

Coach, mentor train less experienced (Principal) QA Engineers, Software Development Engineers and Product Definition Analysts on quality assurance skills and professionalization

Drive the construction, maintenance, and deployment of the on-boarding of new colleagues in the division

Provide expertise on test automation issues, testing tools, QA processes and functional test coverage

Contribute to Quality and Principal QA Engineer community events