Senior Quality Engineering Manager

About Marriott: Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International, a global leader in hospitality. Marriott International, Inc. is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands, including hotels and residential properties. It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8,900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories. Role Title: Senior Quality Engineering Manager Position Summary: Marriott International is the worlds largest hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to grow and succeed. Be where you can do your best work, begin your purpose, belong to an amazing global team, and become the best version of you. We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Testing Team Leader to join our Growth Quality Engineering team. The team validates our end-to-end flows with new Marriott partners or acquisitions to ensure all technology works seamlessly across the travel journey. Candidate will work across multiple products & engineering teams to manage a squad within the Growth Quality Engineering Test Execution team, ensuring effective execution of end-to-end testing activities for each new Growth release. Act as a technical and operational lead for testers and automation engineers, driving quality and consistency in testing activities. Job Responsibilities: Coordinate and oversee squad-level test execution, defect management, and retesting. Review and modify test scripts and flows to support release testing. Mentor and support testers and automation engineers. Ensure accurate documentation and reporting of test activities. Collaborate with other squad leaders and the Senior Team Leader to align on priorities and best practices. Participate in training and process improvement initiative Management Competencies: Leadership: Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods. Leading Through Vision and Values - Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of employee decision making and action. Managing Change - Initiates and/or manages the change process and energizes it on an ongoing basis, taking steps to remove barriers or accelerate its pace; serves as role model for how to handle change by maintaining composure and performance level under pressure or when experiencing challenges. Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action. Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values. Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes. Managing Execution: Building a Successful Team - Uses an effective interpersonal style to build a cohesive team; inspires and sustains team cohesion and engagement by focusing the team on its mission and importance to the organization. Strategy Execution Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes. Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and / or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and / or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required. Building Relationships: Customer Relationships - Develops and sustains relationships based on an understanding of customer/stakeholder needs and actions consistent with the companys service standards. Global Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential. Strategic Partnerships - Develops collaborative relationships with fellow employees and business partners by making them feel valued, appreciated, and included; explores partnership opportunities with other people in and outside the organization; influences and leverages corporate and continental shared services and/or discipline leaders (e.g., HR, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Revenue Management) to achieve objectives; maintains effective external relations with government, business and industry in respective countries; performs effectively as a liaison between locations, disciplines, and corporate to ensure needed resources are received and corporate strategies are understood and executed. Generating Talent and Organizational Capability: Developing Others - Supports the development of others skills and capabilities so that they can fulfill current or future job/role responsibilities more effectively. Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needs and/or support the goals of an organizational unit. Learning and Applying Professional Expertise Continuous Learning - Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application. Technical Acumen - Understanding and utilizing professional skills and knowledge in a specific functional area to conduct and manage everyday business operations and generate innovative solutions to approach function-specific work challenges Technical Intelligence: Knowledge and ability to define and apply appropriate technology to enhance business processDevelopment Methodologies: Knowledge of general stages of SDLC framework and the application tiers within the development space.Information Security: Knowledge of the security considerations relevant within the development space, including industry best practices related to information security Business Acumen - Understands and utilizes business information to manage everyday operations and generate innovative solutions to approach business and administrative challenges. Basic Competencies - Fundamental competencies required for accomplishing basic work activities. Basic Computer Skills - Using basic computer hardware and software (e.g., personal computers, word processing software, Internet browsers, etc.). Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly, correctly, and in a way that allows one to solve work-related issues. Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. Skill and Experience: 8+ years in software testing or QA, with 3+ years in a team lead or supervisory role. Experience with manual and automated testing. Strong experience with automation tools (e.g., TOSCA, Selenium, Cypress). Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript). Strong collaboration and communication skills. Familiarity with hospitality industry systems preferred. Education and Certifications: Undergraduate / Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field. Work location: Hyderabad, India. Work mode: Hybrid