Principal Test Automation Engineer

Job description

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 required

WHAT 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 priority

WHAT 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.

Required Skill Profession

Engineers