Test Engineer Data Engineering

About Team

The Trips Data and Science team at Booking.com look after data for ‘everything but the stay’: Car Rental, Taxis, Public Transport, Attractions, Insurance and Flights. This includes data platforms, management, warehousing, enrichment and machine learning functionality, enabling teams across the organisation to understand and manage our business performance and improve the experience of our customers. You will be responsible for delivering products that advance data excellence and innovation within your product team, and across the business, helping us shape Booking.com’s Transport data journey.

Role Requirements

• At least 3-5 years of experience in high technological environment in a Data Quality role.
• Experience with Backend testing, preferably in data testing.
• Work with cross functional agile teams who own their products and operate in a DevOps environment
• Revolutionise our online customer experience through a great web site and mobile app
• Take data driven decisions using Kibana, Hadoop, monitoring, Big Data, MI and MVT testing
• A full continuous delivery pipeline using Bamboo, Git and Artifactory
• Automation of tests, deployments and repeatable tasks
• Continuous improvement, keeping it simple and developing the team
• Great engineering practices with a focus on TDD and BDD principles and a strong focus on non- functional requirements at the beginning rather than an afterthought
• Decoupled service orientated architecture with resilience and availability built-in
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Software Testability

• Is responsible to ensure that all features are designed and implemented in a testable way by guiding product teams during the entire lifecycle and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.
• Is responsible to enable product teams to deliver quality products at pace by advocating for teams to verify and test work in isolated independent units and embed testing early in the lifecycle and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.
  
  

Non-functional Testing

• Is responsible to advocate for the users experience by raising the team’s ability to build applications with clear non-functional requirements (eg performance, security, accessibility, usability)
• Is responsible to ensure teams keep within non-functional requirements by performing tests such as load-testing, accessibility testing, or security testing
  
  

Test Planning and Execution

• Is responsible to plan, execute, and oversee testing of products and features by using techniques such as risk-based testing, exploratory testing, mobbing, pairing, or 3 amigos and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.
• Is responsible to identify and investigate issues and ensure they are managed in a sustainable and repeatable way by using continuous improvement techniques such as 5 whys and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.
  
  

Test Advocacy

• Is responsible to ensure that testing is embedded in the lifecycle of the product by being involved in the planning and design stages of applications and services and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.
• Is responsible for advocating for testing best practices by explaining why testing is required, and enables others to own testing and quality checks of the product and guide more junior members of the team in this topic.