Support Engineer at Amadeus North America (Waltham, MA)
Desired Skills and Experience
- Understand the business workflow (techno-functional), analyze and handle tickets with a troubleshooting mindset, propose improvements that will result in improved quality and productivity, involve in monitoring activities, and provide outstanding support to customers (firefighters).
- Handle Test system defects: dispatch to concerned teams or follow Incident management procedures for blocking problems or problems having high impact.
- Receive customer escalation for blocking defects and apply the TSM procedure to accelerate the resolution.
- Implement configuration changes: Office setup, Printer, Security, Technical entries
- Ensure persistency of Setup across Refresh and Restore cycles.
- Attend tickets in a timely manner according to the agreed SLAs and OLAs.
- Handle communication with Operations and Development teams to ensure a quick and effective problems resolution.
- Ensure problems are followed up and correctly reported by all TSM teams around the world, using TSM handover procedures.
- Decide on DEV on call activation or defect severity upgrade depending on the impact of the problem
- Implement functional end to end monitoring (Altéa Reservation, Inventory, Ticketing and Departure Control System) for customers in implementation phase in the region.
- Produce weekly usability reports based on the monitoring results, to be communicated to implementation teams, customers and management.
- Apply Incident management procedures to target the KPI of 95% usability for the customers and the implementation teams.
- Reproduce issues in-house (for specific cases) and respond back in a timely manner.
- Regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans.
- Leverage internal technical expertise to peers/ mentors, contribute towards knowledge base, community forums and other internal tools, to provide the most effective solutions to customer issues.
- Create new knowledge base articles to capture new learnings for reuse throughout the organization.
- Participate in workshops with Product Engineering Groups to share best practices and learn about new functionalities.
- Focus on an area of technical/ functional specialization and attend relevant trainings.
- Work in collaboration with other TSM Engineers worldwide and thus cultivate expertise.
- Driving the implementation support Level 3 on tests systems for R&D
- Deploying services & practices to support Service Delivery managers, Account Managers in their daily role
- Analyzing customer needs and feedback and addressing them in an innovative and proactive way
- Facing customers/ account management teams in dedicated workshops and events as an R&D tests management representative (whenever needed) focusing on:
Test Campaign management Top defect list tracking/ triage Weekly reporting /call Dedicated Notifications and POC Follow-up Brush tests delivery and review
- Test Campaign management
- Top defect list tracking/ triage
- Weekly reporting /call
- Dedicated Notifications and POC
- Follow-up Brush tests delivery and review
- Propose new services to improve the customer experience on test systems.
- Design, develop and deliver customized and chargeable services, targeting business performance improvement.
- Create and maintain operational procedures, knowledge repository and documentation.
- Based on customer survey results, complaints or enquiries, challenge existing processes, propose and implement improvements.
- Can convert design to the technical implementation by following standards on programming and documentation
- Should have very good trouble shooting capabilities to identify the root cause of issues
- Should have very good ability to solve technical problems independently
- Software Engineer with overall work experience of 4 to 10 Years with at least 2 years of scripting experience preferably in Python (Mandatory)
- At least 3 years experience in Technical/ Functional support role (Mandatory)
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Good interpersonal communication and customer service skills are needed in order to work successfully with customers in high stress and/ or ambiguous situations.
- 1-2 years of experience in Amadeus/ travel domain (Nice to have)
- Required:
Scripting languages (Python) Webservices SoapUI
- Scripting languages (Python)
- Webservices
- SoapUI
- Appreciated (Optional):
Edifact SQL Unix, Linux Web Development technologies such as Java, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS
- Edifact
- SQL
- Unix, Linux
- Web Development technologies such as Java, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS
- Scripting languages (Python)
- Java
- Experience in Amadeus or another key player Travel Technology company
- Working knowledge of ALTEA Suite products
- Understanding of Distribution and Airline IT business
- Change management and flexibility
- Accountability and proactivity
- Multicultural approach
- Customer focus
- Analytical and conceptual thinking
- Adaptability to fast changing business and technical environment
- Taste for challenges
- Personal motivation
- Communication
- Information gathering
- Innovation, industry and business expertise