Xola & What We Do
Xola is a growing and profitable software company that provides enterprise-class booking and marketing software for the Tourism industry.
We are on a mission to empower companies and local economies with the industry's most powerful, modern, and easy-to-use software. Our product is at the core of what we do and our ethos is that our product lives at the intersection of art and science.
- We engineer like scientists and we build only after we've taken the time to deeply understand our customers' problems.
- We design like artists and there's a purpose behind every pixel, every key-stroke.
In both cases, this helps us create robust, easy-to-use solutions that stand the test of time. Knowledge + Beauty = Powerful software.
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About Our Culture & Values
We want to do the best work of our career at Xola and we seek others who want the same. Doing our best work at Xola means we have a shared understanding of how we should all show up everyday for each other.
You’ll be in good company with us if you espouse these values well in a professional setting.
- Empathetic: Dedicated to customers, perceptive & anticipatory, caring, good listener, and good vibes.
- Beginner's mind: Curious, learner, courageous, critical thinker, creative, and challenges status quo.
- Radically transparent: Open & safe, communicative, good intentions, and constructive communication.
- Black belt: Domain expert, focused, get shit done, reliable, thoughtful and thorough planner, “gritty” & perseverant, teacher, good judgement, and impactful.
About Your Role
At Xola, you’ll be part of a small but elite team of rockstar engineers. As a member of the Platform team, you'll be working on designing and developing microservices that integrate with our core product. This is a great opportunity to build an incredibly disruptive technology platform from the ground up.
Our products are completely API driven which allows for an incredible amount of flexibility and creativity around the ecosystem we build. We love experimenting with new technologies and doing mash-ups with our APIs and would expect you to be imaginative with them also.
We consider design and usability to be paramount for the success of our product -- both, for our front-end app and our APIs. You’re expected to be creative and throw in your own “special sauce” into our products -- whether it’s beautiful animations or fun easter eggs, you’ll have the freedom to make the product “yours”.
What You Will Do
- Document and perform manual test cases.
- Develop automated test suites.
- Actively work with development and infrastructure teams for integrating test automation as an integral part of the Continuous delivery pipeline.
- Responsible for tracking and logging defects during execution.
- Has understood and adopted effective techniques of parallel testing in an agile product development environment.
- Document lessons learned, help maintain a knowledge database.
- Use your knowledge of testing and testability to influence better software design, promote best engineering practices, bug prevention strategies, testability, and other quality attributes across products.
- Should be able to work in close collaboration with Product Management and Product Engineering teams.
- Should be able to carry out healthy and constructive criticism with team members, peers and managers for the benefit of the Product.
What You Will Bring
- 5+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer.
- Understanding and experience with testing including web, mobile, API testing technologies, Manual testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and web automation testing framework and best practices(Selenium, BDD, API, java).
- Experience in Test Engineering for distributed applications with service-oriented architecture and event-based processing.
- Able to implement, maintain and improve test automation frameworks.
- Good knowledge of database concepts (e.g. MongoDB) and version control systems (e.g. git).
- Strong experience and understanding of core Java.
- Strong experience with test case management, code coverage, and defect management (bug databases) tools, test scheduling, test resource management, test run analysis, and regression environments.
- Experience in non-functional testing types like API testing using postman or other tools, UI Testing along with any other automation tool is a plus.
- Experience in an Agile development environment is a plus.
What We Offer
In addition to our incredible team, there are lots of other fun reasons to work with us.
- Competitive pay
- Subsidized Health Insurance
- Annual learning & development funds
- Provident Fund Contribution
- Paid vacation time
- Paid Holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Team activities
- Paid 1 month sabbatical after 5 years.
- Hybrid Work.
What We Do
Xola provides cloud-based software that makes it simple for businesses to manage reservations in real time from any channel—bookings made in-person, over the phone, through their company website, on Xola’s vendor mobile app, with local resellers, and online travel agents that are integrated with Xola.
The tours and activities landscape is incredibly fragmented, comprised largely of SMBs with limited access to modern business tools. As a result, these companies suffer from operational deficiencies and often fall short of their economic potential. Not only is this a problem for local providers but also for tour resellers like Viator, Groupon, Kayak and others.
Xola’s reservation software fills this vital distribution gap and helps tour operators accelerate their growth with its cloud-based and easy-to-use tools. The tours and activities industry is worth $120 billion globally, and with Xola, tour providers and resellers can tap into this immense market unlike ever before.
We're not the only ones that recognize the importance of powerful software in this industry. Stephen Ambrose of Steadfast Venture Capital argues that in travel technology, “the back end is really the emerging opportunity... One reason it is exciting is that it is not crowded, not noisy.”
Xola is growing quickly and is looking for top performers to help us serve the business needs of tens of thousands of tour and activity companies worldwide
