Senior General QA (Python)

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior General QA Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the quality and reliability of our complex web and mobile travel applications. You will work closely with product management, development, and operations teams to understand project requirements, define test strategies, and execute comprehensive testing plans. Your expertise will be crucial in maintaining the high standards of our software products, contributing to our mission of delivering exceptional travel solutions.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Helping to test complex web travel applications.
• Designing and executing test cases to verify software functionality and usability.
• Conducting various types of testing, including functional testing (UI/API), regression testing, and integration testing. (both manual and automated)
• Performing ad-hoc and exploratory testing for areas that require immediate attention or have high-risk user scenarios that are not covered by automated tests.
• Identifying, reporting, and tracking defects using appropriate tools and methodologies.
• Writing and maintaining comprehensive test documentation, including test plans, test cases, bug reports, and sporadic internal knowledge base articles (e.g., Confluence).
• Taking a direct part in the discussion and planning of new features with TPM and Team Lead, alongside the creation of corresponding test plans.
• Collaborating with PM and Team Lead to understand project requirements and objectives.
• Striving for the highest possible test coverage with automated tests, including overseeing the sufficiency and coverage at all levels.
• Collaborating with developers to ensure that unit and component tests are well-integrated.
• Writing and maintaining automated tests at the integration and end-to-end levels.

You Certainly:

• Have a passion for quality and great attention to detail.
• Possess 5+ years of experience in web application testing, including UI/API, functional/non-functional testing, and are familiar with the practices of regular product delivery and its testing in this context.
• Have hands-on experience with exploratory testing.
• Have hands-on experience with API testing tools such as Postman, Swagger, and Curl.
• Have experience with creating and maintaining test documentation beyond just bug reports and test cases.
• Are able to write clear, easy-to-follow bug reports, checklists, and feature requests.
• Are familiar with basic programming principles and have a conceptual knowledge of modern software engineering processes, including version control systems, issue tracking, and continuous integration.
• Have experience running automation tests and analyzing reports.
• Have excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Are self-motivated, proactive, and able to multitask, prioritize your work, and deliver on time, with a desire for continuous improvement.

Who We Are:
We are a tech team of adventurous travelers who were once part of YCombinator alumni—GetGoing Inc., founded in 2012 by Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley graduates. We also raised ~$10M in venture capital from Silicon Valley.
In 2016, we joined BCD Travel (), a global corporate travel management company with annual sales of $25 billion, to bring our unique hotel booking technology to BCD Travel’s products.

What We Do:
The product we develop is a B2B booking platform for business trips, which helps users book hotels, flights, and cars. It provides both business travelers and their travel agents with detailed itineraries and the best booking options. Every day, thousands of business travelers across the world use our software built on modern technology.

We Use:

• On the front end: ES6 and React/Redux.
• On the backend: Python 3.
• For automation: Python3, Selenium Webdriver, Behave, Pytest, Playwright, Appium, Jenkins, Docker, Locust, etc.

Originally posted on Himalayas