Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
This role can sit in Atlanta, GA or Minneapolis, MN

Delta IT is on a journey of transformation. We are changing the way we do business from top to bottom. As thought-leaders within Delta, we strive to build important and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help us realize our vision.
Delta employees are problem solvers, doers, innovators.
We are proactive.
We are collaborative.
We deliver impact to our customers.

Join us on our transformation journey in becoming a best-in-class IT organization at the world's best airline
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test you will help deliver the quality and performance of large scale, custom hardware multi-platform software products and applications that includes; web, API and mobile application interfaces. Incumbents are experienced, hands on and self-motivated engineer who can work in a continuous integration environment.

This role involves interacting with Software Developers that includes demonstrating shift-left methods to understand a sophisticated domain and product. The SDET is instrumental in the development of automated functional component tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests through open source test frameworks for overall system testing within an Agile environment. You must be adaptable, flexible and able to succeed within a cohesive work environment. The SDET must have a strong understanding of user and process requirements and skills to ensure those requirements can be achieved through high-quality work.

Key Responsibilities:

* Design, develop, implement, and maintain software to test the product/application
* Design, develop and maintain Automation frameworks
* 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
* Add to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principles
* Collaborate effectively within team environment


What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
* 5 or more 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 UI and APIs tests written in Java, JavaScript, C#, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc.
* Experience of working with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, s3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, etc.
* Hands on experience designing, developing and maintaining Automation Frameworks
* Experience in OOPs languages like Java, C# and scripting languages like Python, Perl, Shell, Bash etc.
* 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 in automating backend REST services including writing custom functions using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Karate, Cypress, Ready API etc.
* Hands on experience of building test automation framework from ground up using modular framework and design pattern like Page Object Model design pattern (POM) etc.
* Experience working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM , SAFe, XP etc.
* Knowledge of continuous integration tools such Jenkins or Circle CI
* 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
* Proactive in nature with a customer-centric focus
* Excellent verbal and written communication

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Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
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Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
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Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
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Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.


What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
* Prior travel industry experience
* Infrastructure automation using Docker and tools like Chef, Puppet, Terraform
* 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.


Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values - Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork - every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

* Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
* 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
* Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
* Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits
* Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
* Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
* Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
* Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
* World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
* Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
* Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
* Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare