Lead Software Development Engineer in Testing [T500 12696]

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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.

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