[Urgent Search] Test Engineering Manager

Role Description:

Company Intro

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Job Overview

The role of “Engineering Manager - Test, Partner Payments Quality” for the Quality Engineering Team in Strategic and Commercial Operations (SCO) under Fintech division, is to primarily manage, coach, and develop a test engineering team and strategies, ensuring the development of both are in line with organizational objectives and direction. They will be required to direct all aspects of the test engineering function within the direct reporting line and provide technical guidance and input to ensure modern testing automation practices are embedded into their teams’ ways of working. This role will also be responsible for ensuring that talent is identified and developed, any skills gaps are identified in good time to ensure the success of the organization’s objectives.

What you’ll be doing:

Vision & Critical Thinking

- Set the team’s vision, tech strategy, OKRs, SLIs/SLOs, and KPIs

- Deliver strategic goals to improve quality and testing in their teams

- Constructively improve existing ideas, plans, and solutions by reviewing them in a critical yet constructive manner, initiating concrete improvements, and articulating their rationale and guide members of the team in this topic.

People Leadership

- Directly manage quality engineers, quality specialists, and developers

- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating

- Nurture, inspire, motivate, grow and develop test engineering talent in the team

- Working closely with different roles across multiple teams: technical writers, SREs, developers, product managers, and team leads

- Working with developers in other teams to understand the business needs and identify the quality requirements

Technology, Craft & Delivery

- Embed automation testing in the development process, where applicable

- Support the CI/CD efforts, proposes test automation tooling and infrastructure, and work with developers to build and maintain it;

- Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to enable effective and efficient delivery

What you’ll bring:

- At least two years of a proven track record of developing automation strategies and driving successful technical initiatives that improved performance and quality

- Being able to experiment with different test frameworks and automation tools, (open-source preferred) and able to choose the right ones according to the different trade-offs;

- Hands-on experience with writing automated tests

- Experience with Java and JUnit is a must

- Experience with Swagger, Citrus, Front end tests is a plus

About BKNG

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

- Booking.com
- KAYAK
- priceline
- agoda
- Rentalcars.com
- OpenTable

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO

Key Skills:

Company Intro

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Job Overview

The role of “Engineering Manager - Test, Partner Payments Quality” for the Quality Engineering Team in Strategic and Commercial Operations (SCO) under Fintech division, is to primarily manage, coach, and develop a test engineering team and strategies, ensuring the development of both are in line with organizational objectives and direction. They will be required to direct all aspects of the test engineering function within the direct reporting line and provide technical guidance and input to ensure modern testing automation practices are embedded into their teams’ ways of working. This role will also be responsible for ensuring that talent is identified and developed, any skills gaps are identified in good time to ensure the success of the organization’s objectives.

What you’ll be doing:

Vision & Critical Thinking

- Set the team’s vision, tech strategy, OKRs, SLIs/SLOs, and KPIs

- Deliver strategic goals to improve quality and testing in their teams

- Constructively improve existing ideas, plans, and solutions by reviewing them in a critical yet constructive manner, initiating concrete improvements, and articulating their rationale and guide members of the team in this topic.

People Leadership

- Directly manage quality engineers, quality specialists, and developers

- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating

- Nurture, inspire, motivate, grow and develop test engineering talent in the team

- Working closely with different roles across multiple teams: technical writers, SREs, developers, product managers, and team leads

- Working with developers in other teams to understand the business needs and identify the quality requirements

Technology, Craft & Delivery

- Embed automation testing in the development process, where applicable

- Support the CI/CD efforts, proposes test automation tooling and infrastructure, and work with developers to build and maintain it;

- Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to enable effective and efficient delivery

What you’ll bring:

- At least two years of a proven track record of developing automation strategies and driving successful technical initiatives that improved performance and quality

- Being able to experiment with different test frameworks and automation tools, (open-source preferred) and able to choose the right ones according to the different trade-offs;

- Hands-on experience with writing automated tests

- Experience with Java and JUnit is a must

- Experience with Swagger, Citrus, Front end tests is a plus

About BKNG

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

- Booking.com
- KAYAK
- priceline
- agoda
- Rentalcars.com
- OpenTable

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO