How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Summary
This role represents for highly skilled test engineers who can lead automation strategy, drive quality at scale, and influence technical and business stakeholders. The role requires strong hands-on expertise along with ownership, mentoring, and architectural decision-making capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable test automation frameworks across UI, API, and backend layers.
- Drive automation strategy for complex distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
- Act as a quality advocate within agile teams, influencing architecture, design, and delivery decisions.
- Collaborate with junior SDETs and engineers on best practices, tools, and frameworks.
- Collaborate closely with product owners, developers, architects, and DevOps teams to ensure quality from design to production.
- Own automation pipelines, quality metrics, and test data strategy across environments.
- Proactively identify risks, gaps, and quality issues and drive resolution across teams.
- Support non-functional testing strategies including performance, reliability, security, and resiliency testing.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- 4 to 7 years of experience in Information Technology with deep expertise in test automation across UI and API layers.
- Strong hands-on programming experience using Java (preferred), Python, or JavaScript with solid understanding of OOP and design principles.
- Extensive experience with Selenium, RestAPI, Manual testing and knowledge on Spring Boot, Quarkus, or similar modern microservices frameworks.
- Proven experience building and scaling automation frameworks from the ground up using modular architecture and design patterns such as Page Object Model (POM).
- Advanced experience automating REST APIs using REST Assured, Postman, Cypress, ReadyAPI, or similar tools.
- Strong working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB).
- Experience integrating automation with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
- Ability to independently design, create, and maintain automation jobs and quality gates in CI pipelines.
- Strong experience with source control tools such as GitHub, GitLab, or AWS CodeCommit.
- Hands-on experience generating and analyzing automation reports using tools such as Cucumber Reports, Extent Reports, or custom dashboards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Behavioral Competencies
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence within collaborative and cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Ability to build strong partnerships with peers, stakeholders, and leadership.
- High ownership mindset with consistent delivery against commitments.
- Proactive in understanding customer needs and driving customer-focused quality solutions.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, and Elastic Beanstalk.
- Airline domain experience is a plus.
- Experience with service virtualization and mocking frameworks such as WireMock and Mockito.
- Experience with TDD and BDD methodologies using Gherkin syntax.
- Familiarity with test management and agile tools such as qTest, VersionOne, Jira, or similar.
- Experience working with containers and orchestration platforms such as Docker, OpenShift, or Kubernetes.
- Experience executing and supporting non-functional testing including performance, load, stress, security, accessibility, and usability testing.
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.
