About the Role:
Welcome to a pivotal moment in the airline industrya sector that's been rooted in decades-old technology even as the world moved into the digital era.
For the past half-century, the core protocols of airline retailing and delivery have remained largely unchangeduntil now. Accelya is at the forefront of transforming this landscape, ushering in a new era of modern, Amazon-like airline retailing and delivery experiences.
We're not just digitizing old processes; we're reinventing them, contributing to IATA's new world of Offer, Order, Settle, and Deliver (OOSD). We are product based company serving most of the major airlines in the world (United, American, Delta, Copa, Lufthansa, Emirates, Qantas to name a few).
Imagine impact where it helps not only your family when they travel but makes air travel accessible and better for the 8 billion people on earth, of which only 11% of experience the beauty of the world through air travel. You can play an instrumental role in shaping IATA, Airlines to enable all of them.
Why This Role Matters:
As a Principal of Quality and Release Management,
- you'll be a trailblazer in ensuring that our modern airline solutions not only innovate but operate at the highest quality standards.
- In a mission-critical industry where 99.999% reliability is the baseline, you will champion excellence across code, deployment, and monitoring.
- You'll help shape the future of airline retailing by ensuring every release meets world-class standards and sets the bar higher for the entire industry.
What You'll Do / Key Responsibilities:
You'll be the cross-functional leader who not only envisions but also executes.
From automated testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines to live monitoring in cloud environments, you'll ensure that quality isn't just a goalit's a given. You will influence teams not just within the CTO's organization but across the entire company and with major airlines around the globe.
- Strategic Engineering Leadership: Shape and execute the vision for FLX ONE's ONE Order backend Quality, aligning with product goals, business objectives, and industry standards to actual operational execution and releases.
- Architectural Ownership: Oversee the Quality and Release testing, implementation, and scalability of the ONE Order backend services, driving architectural decisions that prioritize QUALITY.
- Full-Stack Mindset: You will need to go from Dev Ops Monitoring to make this whole gamut come to life.
- Technical Mentorship & Team Development: Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team, cultivating an environment that values innovation, accountability, and growth but mostly important Quality and Best-in-class Release management.
- Hands on: This is a hands on role, where you will need to help with Build scripts, test scripts, framework development and monitoring dashboards. The buck stops with you!
What You Bring to the Role:
- You're a visionary and a doer.
- Expertise: You have at least 10+ years of experience as a hardcore developer or in a build, DevOps, or QA automation frameworks role.
- CI/CD: You've got strong exposure to top-notch CI/CD and monitoring frameworks in large, mature organizations, which is a huge bonus.
- API Testing Tools : You know tools like JMeter, SoapUI, and OpenSearch like the back of your hand. You're comfortable working in a Kubernetes and AWS environment and can think strategically about quality and reliability.
- Customer-Centric Mindset: A dedication to understanding and solving customer needs, with a passion for delivering high-impact products that shape the industry.
