How youll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities) Delta is investing in and growing our capabilities across our three IT global technology hubs – Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Bangalore – to continually improve the end-to-end travel experience for our customers and enable our 90,000 Delta people who serve them. Join us on our transformation journey in becoming a world-class IT organization at the worlds best airline!As a 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. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Design, develop, implement and maintain software to test the product/applicationManual QA testing as neededDefine automation strategy, automation cases as well as Design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic mannerParticipate in design and code inspectionsPropose improvements to our existing processes and build automated tools, libraries and utilities in order to improve the team’s speed, quality and efficiencyWork with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web servicesOwn 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 themIntegration of both the tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline is also a key responsibility in this positionAdd to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principlesCollaborate effectively within team environment
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – 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 New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period10 paid holidays per calendar yearBirthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leaveNon-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leaveComprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefitsFamily care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stagesHolistic 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 membersCareer 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 footprintBusiness Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategiesRecognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable TogetherAccess 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
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications) Minimum 5 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in test automation of applications from UI and API layer.Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with a testing framework like Cucumber or JBehavePrior experience with one or more querying languages, Oracle SQL (preferred)Experience with API and Microservices testing and automationMust have Mobile IOS / Android testing experienceExperience working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM , SAFe, XP etc.Experience deploying applications in AWS or OpenShift (Kubernetes)Knowledge of continuous integration tools such GitLab CI/CDAble to independently create and maintain automation test jobs with tools such as Jenkins or equivalentCandidate should have experience writing, maintaining automated UI and APIs tests written in Java, JavaScript, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc.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 documentationPersonal Accountability: We operate a highly mission critical technology environment which means we need to act proactively and accept responsibility for the overall outcome. Collaborate and communicate across teams and think about how we can improve our respective domains but make the whole of IT greater than the sum of its parts.Systems Thinking: Know our business which lets us understand interdependencies and bring a systems thinking of the overall Delta environment to decisions we make. Excellent Judgement: As technology providers we are constantly having to balance the risk to the operation with the need for agility; this requires excellent judgement from everyone in the design, engineering and change management processes. Proactive in nature with a customer-centric focusExcellent verbal and written communicationExecute with a Sense of UrgencyConsistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data. Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles. Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency. 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) Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field is preferred.Experience working in an airline technology environment is preferred.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.