Lead Software Development Engineer in Testing

About Delta Tech Hub: Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Design, develop, implement, and maintain software to test the product/application Define automation strategy, automation cases as well as Design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner Participate in design and code inspections Propose improvements to our existing processes and build automated tools, libraries and utilities in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiency Work with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web services Own the design and implementation of tests that will help in end-to-end quality of major deliverables working closely with multiple engineers and teams to implement them Integration of both the tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline is also a key responsibility in this position Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development. Be aggressive to resolve and prevent technical debt. Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve. Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding. Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts. Create usable documentation/playbook(s) Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs – communicate these across the team. Optimize pace and meet deadlines. Administer product upgrades and patches. Provide assistance and support other team members where requiredWHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS): 6 + years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in test automation of applications from UI and API layer. Candidate should have experience writing, maintaining automated tests for APIs written in Java, JavaScript, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc. Experience in OOPs languages like Java and scripting languages like Python, Perl, Shell, Bash etc. Strong knowledge of AWS server technologies, including S3, Lambda, VPC, Route53, MSK, Kinesis, Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB. Experience with API and Microservices testing and automation Knowledge of Test Driven Development(TDD), Behavior Driven Development(BDD) with a testing framework like Cucumber or JBehave Prior experience with one or more querying languages such SQL (preferred), Oracle, MySQL and/or No SQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB etc) Experience deploying applications in AWS or OpenShift (Kubernetes) Experience working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM , SAFe, XP etc. Knowledge of continuous integration tools such Jenkins Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs with tools such as Jenkins Experience working with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit, etc. and a strong ability to create test reports from automation test run using Cucumber report, Extent report, etc. Ability to connect with peers, business analysts, and domain experts and the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individual should be able to resolve urgent problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive. Proactive in nature with a customer-centric focus Excellent verbal and written communication Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priorityWHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS): Prior travel industry experience Infrastructure automation using Docker and tools like Chef, Puppet, Terraform Experience of working with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, s3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, etc. Experience virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc. Experience with test management and agile management tools such as VersionOne, qTest etc. Experience of non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, accessibility and usability testing.