Connectivity / Hotel Systems Specialist London or Prague

Expedia

Place of work
CZ, Prague
Contract type
full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Hotel System Specialist will ensure partner connectivity and integration solutions are compliant with business and technical expectations, maintain in depth knowledge on Expedia lodging systems & integration solutions to support internal and external stakeholders, manage at scale centrally integrated connectivity partners for onboarding, communication, and global projects and feature enhancement rollout.
Responsibilities:

• Manage the connectivity alias and provide support to new partners developing to Expedia public solutions
• Support new partners in the development and testing of integration solutions and ongoing maintenance of solutions
• Maintain partner facing documentation, FAQ and forum on connectivity website
• Perform testing & certification test cases for all connectivity solutions in lab and production and respond to questions and resolve issues related to specifications
• Maintain Partner Connectivity configuration and Maintain and report on Partner Monitoring configuration
• Maintain in depth knowledge on Expedia lodging systems & connectivity solutions including recording, questionnaires & partner specific documentation
• Adjust and manage test plans & schedules
• Deliver and enhance tools for self-service testing , certification and engage partners partner engagement on using self-service tools
Role in Business Process:

• Ensure that standard business requirements provided by lodging connectivity management team are met and document technical limitations/ issues related to these requirements
• Support all teams in building a stable test environment required by HOTEL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST team to achieve all task
• Ensure all test tools, test plans, and related documentation cover all the latest Expedia connectivity features and are maintained up to date at all times
• Build and maintain partner specific technical knowledge base
• Build required partner monitoring and reporting in test environments
• Once an agreement on applicable test plan/cases is reached, the HOTEL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST will execute the scenarios and communicate clear test results to external partners and internal stakeholders
• Based on final test results, HOTEL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST makes the decision or recommendation to the respective Lodging connectivity mangement team on deployment to production of new partner code tested
• HOTEL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST has to ensure that the test environment meets requirements and communicate issues to internal stake holders
• Define technical requirements for test and certifications internally
• Define technical requirements for self-service tools

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Intermediate (B1)

Personality requirements and skills

Bachelor's Degree in IT
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 1-3 years' experience in Quality assurance or programming
• Ability to read and understand XML, REST or JSON are a plus
• Ability to work alone and with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong technical, analytic and communication skills
• Self-starter and self-directed
Core Competencies

• Communication: Business Relationships Clear communication of expected technical results and actual test results within internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing Complexity: Cross company effectiveness, change management, flexibility
• Problem Solving
• Personal Effectiveness: Results oriented, productivity, ownership, delegation, ability to multitask
• Goal Setting / ST Planning: Analysis/Decision making, planning & organization, tenacity

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Brief description of the company

Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.Collectively, the Expedia brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 140,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners. Please visit company website to learn more about our travel brands.
ID: 2048633  Datum zveřejnění: 16.3.2015