Position: GDS Expert, Flight Booking Platform
Company: DataArt
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

About the vacancy

The client is one of the world’s largest Online Travel Agencies (OTA) with several billion dollars of revenue annually. Due to the focus on leisure travel, the volumes are on a speedy path to recovery. DataArt team is working on the high-load flight and hotel booking platform that is currently utilized by millions of end-users all across the globe resulting in several tens of thousands of bookings daily.

The 15-strong DataArt team in the region includes Java engineering roles as well as QA Automation Engineers, Business Analysts and PM. The team’s task is to ensure the platform provides a competitive set of features and error-free performance to the end-users.

Upon entering the project you would also join the friendly and experienced DataArt’s Travel, Transportation, and Hospitality team that would help get to speed with the exciting business domain area of Travel. Members of the existing team will give a hand with onboarding into the client’s development and testing ecosystem, and help navigate through the industry specifics to get on board quicker.

With DataArt’s people-first culture you would enjoy the long term relationship opportunities that spread beyond this particular project completion.

Responsibilities
- Provide consultancy to the project teams in regards to GDS’ services, capabilities, and constraints
- Assist project teams with the creation, cancellation, modification of test bookings

Must have
- Hands-on experience working with GDSs console and cryptic commands: Sabre, Amadeus, Travelport
- Practical awareness of GDS web services, parameters and use scenarios associated with them (search, book, cancel/void, )
- Fluent spoken and written English communication skills

Would be a plus
- Ability to help project teams identify the right set of GDS services or commands to implement a business scenario
- General understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Experience in specifying requirements for software features
- Experience in communication with stakeholders, clarifying requirements

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