Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)
Website:
bookingholdings.com
Job details:
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.
At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.
About Role:
Booking.com’s Trips Business Unit is building a more connected travel experience across the customer journey. Our teams work on high-scale products and services that help travellers discover, compare, book, and manage travel experiences.
The Trips Test Engineering community helps teams build quality in from the start. We work closely with developers, product managers, and designers to improve testability, strengthen automation, and deliver reliable experiences for travellers and partners.
We are looking for a Test Engineer I to join our Trips Test Engineering team in Bangalore. This role is suited to an engineer who enjoys understanding products, finding meaningful risks, and helping teams deliver reliable software through pragmatic testing and automation.
What you’ll be doing
- Understand product requirements and acceptance criteria, and identify relevant test scenarios and risks.
- Provide testability feedback during design and development, using risk-based testing, exploratory testing, test charters and appropriate test oracles.
- Work independently on test automation tasks, including API, UI, mobile apps and defect-management activities within the team’s scope, seeking support for complex or unique scenarios.
- Write and maintain valuable, isolated, deterministic automated tests, using appropriate automation levels, test data, mocks or stubs, and CI integration
- Contribute to API, web, and mobile test automation using the tools and frameworks adopted by the team.
- Perform basic mobile testing across Android and/or iOS devices, app journeys, screen sizes, network conditions, and app lifecycle scenarios.
- Run tests through CI/CD pipelines and help investigate failures to provide reliable feedback to the team.
- Report defects clearly, support triage, and participate in defect investigation and root-cause analysis.
- Participate in basic quality checks for areas such as accessibility, performance, security, usability, and mobile compatibility.
- Drive collaborative test implementation and execution within the team and contribute to broader engineering quality;
- Review test results and use logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards to investigate failures and understand production behaviour.
- Use AI-assisted tools to generate test ideas, create test data, improve automation, and analyse failures, while reviewing outputs for correctness, privacy, security, and maintainability.
- Contribute to testing AI-enabled features by checking accuracy, relevance, consistency, safety, and unexpected outputs using representative scenarios.
- Share learnings with teammates and advocate for a culture of shared responsibility for quality.
What you’ll bring
- Typically 2–4 years of experience in Quality Engineering.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C#.
- Hands-on experience with API, UI, and/or mobile test automation using tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, REST Assured, or equivalent.
- Experience working with REST APIs and tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar.
- Working knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Solid understanding of testing fundamentals, including test design, exploratory testing, regression testing, defect management, and risk-based thinking.
- Basic understanding of web applications, mobile applications, microservices, or cloud-based systems.
- Basic familiarity with software quality signals such as static analysis, code-quality checks, logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards.
- Ability to write clear tests, investigate failures, debug issues, and communicate defects effectively.
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively with developers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders.
- Curiosity about AI-assisted engineering and a responsible approach to using AI tools in testing and software development.
Nice to have
- Experience with both UI and API automation, including test isolation, determinism, and maintainability.
- Experience with mobile automation tools such as Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, BrowserStack, or equivalent.
- Exposure to test data management, mocking, service virtualisation, contract testing, or observability.
- Exposure to SonarQube or equivalent static-analysis and code-quality tools.
- Exposure to accessibility, performance, security, resilience, cross-browser, or mobile compatibility testing.
- Experience improving test suites, CI feedback, quality signals, or developer tooling.
- Exposure to evaluating AI-enabled or LLM-based features, including prompt variations, output quality, safety, reliability, and regression testing.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, containers, or distributed-system debugging.
What we value
- Strong testing fundamentals and attention to detail.
- Ownership of assigned work and a practical focus on customer impact.
- A willingness to collaborate, ask questions, and learn from developers and teammates.
- A shift-left mindset: identifying and preventing defects early in the development lifecycle.
- Continuous learning and an interest in improving testing practices and tools.
- Responsible use of AI: increasing effectiveness while maintaining human accountability for correctness, privacy, security, safety, and maintainability.
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
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Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
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