How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Summary
As a Senior SDET in the Delta.com & Content team, you will engineer the quality of Delta's primary customer-facing digital channels. You will work across UI, 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.
Role Responsibility
- Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, and backend microservices.
- Enhance and evolve modern, scalable automation frameworks.
- Collaborate closely with 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 to Agile ceremonies and promote engineering excellence within the team.
What You Need To Succeed (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.
- Strong programming skills in Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with solid OOP foundations.
- Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, REST Assured.
- Strong SQL or NoSQL database knowledge.
- Experience testing and automating RESTful services using Postman, REST Assured, ReadyAPI, Cypress, etc.
- Experience generating detailed test reports using tools such as Cucumber, Allure, or Extent Reports.
- Strong knowledge of Prompt Engineering and the ability to leverage GenAI tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q) for testing workflows.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based source control systems.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
Behavioral Competencies
- Ability to produce high quality results, work in a collaborative environment by embracing diverse perspectives and with a solution-based approach.
- Adapt communication clearly and concisely based on team dynamics and expresses thoughts & ideas effectively.
- Ability to engage effectively with peers and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships.
- Ability to understand business processes, implement innovative solutions, guide juniors on continuous improvement by constantly updating oneself on current technology & trends.
- Inquisitive to understand customer and business expectations while creating value addition on technical solutions.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience with AWS services: EC2, S3, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk.
- Airline or travel domain experience.
- Strong understanding of BDD/TDD methodologies using Gherkin syntax.
- Experience building modular automation frameworks using Page Object Model (POM), Screenplay, Factory, or similar patterns.
- Exposure to AI-driven testing accelerators such as visual AI validation, self-healing locators, or autonomous regression optimization.
- Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
- Experience using GitHub, GitLab, or AWS CodeCommit for version control.
About The Company
What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924 has now grown into the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Delta Air Lines is known for its operational excellence and award-winning customer service.
Powered by our employees worldwide, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for a decade 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.
In 2026, Delta Air Lines continued to earn global recognition for its performance, culture and operational excellence. Delta was named to Glassdoor's 2026 Top 100 Best Places to Work list for the ninth time, standing as the only airline recognized. Delta also secured the 11th spot on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list, marking its 13th consecutive year earning this distinction. Delta was also recognized by Cirium as the top on-time airline in North America for the fifth consecutive year, underscoring its unwavering commitment to reliability and customer experience.
About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
The DTH is one of Delta Air Lines investments in world-class business capabilities and technology aimed at transforming how Delta Air Lines operates and provides world-class travel experiences to its customers through innovation and cutting-edge methodologies. By continuously reimagining processes and driving technology-led transformation, the Delta Technology Hub plays a pivotal role in Scripting The Future Of Aviation. The organization is certified by the Great Place to Work Institute (India). The Delta Technology Hub was a finalist for the iVolunteer Awards 2024/2025 in the Leader in Employee Volunteering category. This nomination highlights our remarkable volunteering initiatives and the outstanding practices we implement to encourage and support our employee volunteering program.
For more information, please visit www.deltatechhub.com
Why join
- Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
- Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs –exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
- Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
- Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
- Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Medical Insurance, Transportation to and from the DTH office, Complementary Cafeteria Meals, Special Travel opportunities and Travel Privileges, Car Lease Program, Paid time off, Parental Benefits and National Pension Scheme.
