Quality Assurance Engineer - Accommodation Core team

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! By comparing prices from major booking sites, we're making it easy for people to find hotels they want at a price they’ll love. In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. A career at trivago is a journey designed for people who crave continuous development and want to thrive in a high-performing team. Here you will find those who aren't afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Join Us In Making A Difference

Our Quality Assurance team ensures that trivago’s products, tools, and services can continue to evolve while maintaining reliability, quality and ensuring that new features are in the best possible shape before they go live to our users. 

You‘ll be working within the Accommodation Core team. One important part of our mission is to provide high-quality content and associated deductions that empower trivago users. This means you’ll have an opportunity to work on testing challenging topics, for example, pipelines collecting data from various sources, services consolidating information into a single source of truth, services building inferences using this data and delivering it to our consumers which utilize modern technologies and paradigms like serverless architecture, data batch processing, stream processing and many more.

Within this team, you’ll be required to test various APIs and other backend services. In addition to manual and exploratory testing techniques, creating and maintaining test automation solutions and test suites is very critical for this role.

We’re looking for highly motivated, detail-oriented and proactive people to shape the quality and user experience of our products. Are you ready to make an impact? Then we want to hear from you!

Get an inside look at trivago's engineering culture:

How You’Ll Make An Impact:

• Working as part of a highly agile, multidisciplinary team, you’ll be tasked with testing changes to our most critical services, focusing primarily on complex backend infrastructure setups.
• Identify defects by using manual/exploratory, automated, and regression testing, as well as by setting up and monitoring alerts. 
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests in various test automation frameworks to confirm the functionality of our backend services and the E2E data flows. 
• When unforeseen problems arise, delays will be inevitable, so it’s essential that you keep all relevant stakeholders up to date on the status of the expected product changes.

What You'Ll Need To Thrive:

• An impeccable eye for detail that allows you to spot even the smallest errors and unintended changes to our core products.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills so you’re able to manage stakeholder expectations diplomatically and collaborate efficiently within large, dynamic teams.
• Being open to change and relishing new challenges: adapting to new processes and structural changes as part of a highly-agile environment.
• Minimum 5 years experience in a Quality Assurance role with a focus on API testing and automating test cases
• Previous experience with languages and technologies like Java/Python, SQL, GIT AND Kafka etc. (learning on the job is also provided and encouraged).
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
• Knowledge or hands-on experience in any common testing and/or automation tools such as Karate, REST Assured, Postman
• Good coding skills to implement scripts and pipelines for automation.
• Understanding of Data Streaming Technologies like Apache Kafka
• Knowledge of data pipelines on GCP
• Experience in working in an agile-driven environment
• Experience working with backend only development teams

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Worried about missing a few requirements? Still apply, and express your motivation as you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

Recruiting Process For This Role:

• Video application
• Introduction Call
• Case Study
• Technical Interview with case study presentation
• Interview with Stakeholders

What You Can Look Forward To:

As you grow, so do we. This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.   Moving to join us? No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.   Life happens. We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, 2 WFH days weekly, the chance to work remotely for 20 days abroad, free access to the Heynanny platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.   Enjoy your office days. Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, stay healthy with our on-site gym and sports classes, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.

Thank you for considering a career at trivago! Our commitment to fostering an inclusive and enriching environment for all talents is at the heart of what we do. We understand that embarking on a new job opportunity is a blend of excitement and curiosity. Should any questions arise before you apply, feel free to reach out to us at joinus@trivago.com. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact on global travel, we look forward to your application!

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