Senior SDET (API Automation) [T500-24834]

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.

As a Senior SDET in the Digital Channels Servicing Purchase team, you will engineer the quality of Delta’s primary customer-facing digital channels. You will work across API, microservices, DevOps pipelines, and AI assisted engineering tools to ensure world-class reliability and customer experience.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with strong hands-on ownership and no people-management responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across API, and backend microservices.
• Enhance and evolve modern, scalable automation frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with UI, engineering, UX, product, and architecture teams to embed quality from design to deployment.
• Review code and contribute to technical discussions emphasizing testability and reliability.
• Build reusable utilities, libraries, and internal tooling to improve automation efficiency.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues across distributed systems and cloud environments.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with strong quality gates.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon Q to:
• Generate test cases and automation scaffolding
• Expand coverage for edge cases and negative scenarios
• Refactor automation code
• Enhance documentation and readability
• Apply Prompt Engineering to craft precise, structured prompts that improve test generation, debugging workflows, and test data creation.
• Use AI-driven log analysis, anomaly detection, and visual validation capabilities to identify defects early.
• Create reusable prompt templates for consistent, scalable AI-driven test workflows.
• Actively contribute in Agile ceremonies and promote engineering excellence within the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 4-7 years of experience as an SDET or in Software Quality Engineering.
• Hands on experience of programming concept such as OOPs in scripting languages like Java or JavaScript or Python.
• Candidate should have hands on experience of writing, maintaining automated UI and APIs tests written in Java, JavaScript, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, REST Assured, Cypress etc.
• Hands on experience with one or more querying languages such SQL (preferred), Oracle, MySQL and/or No SQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB etc).
• Hands on experience in automating backend REST services including writing custom functions using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Cypress, Ready API etc.
• Hands on experience of building BDD based test automation framework from ground up using modular framework and design pattern like Page Object Model design pattern (POM) etc
• Experience of working with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, s3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, Elastic bean etc.
• Good Understanding of DevOps principles
• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe etc.
• Hands on experience of working with continues integration tools such Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs using tools such as Jenkins.
• Hands on experience working with source code management tools like GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit etc.
• Actively use AI-powered tools (GitHub Copilot, Kiro, Amazon Q, etc.) to accelerate test code generation, debugging, and code reviews
• Innovate on daily workflows by identifying repetitive tasks that can be augmented or automated with AI
• Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.