Senior Automation Test Engineer

United Airlines; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

United Airlines seeks a Senior Automation Test Engineer for its Digital Technology team in India. You will lead automation and manual testing strategies for enterprise software, drive automation-first delivery, and partner with QA managers to implement governance and KPI tracking.

You will design, implement, and maintain scalable automation frameworks, leveraging AI and modern tools to improve efficiency across Web, API, and Mobile testing within a fast-paced, global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, MIS or equivalent work experience.
• 4 years of relevant work experience; 6+ years in Test Automation.
• Programming in Java and experience in Selenium, Appium, and API testing (RestAssured).
• Design, develop and maintain scalable test automation frameworks (BDD/JUnit/TestNG) with CI/CD in AWS/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of automation and manual test strategies for software and systems with automation-first approach.
• Collaborate with developers, QE analysts and system engineers to ensure quality from test planning to production deployment.
• Own and maintain automation artifacts, tools, licenses and framework; govern standards and perform automation audits.
• Manage and mitigate testing risks and issues; track KPIs and ROIs.
• Identify testing KPIs, track trends, and own Power BI reports.
• Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AI to enhance end-to-end testing and automation frameworks.

Skills

Java

AWS

ISTQB

CSTE

Selenium

Appium

REST Assured

BDD

JUnit

TestNG

CI/CD

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/CE/MIS or equivalent

MS degree (preferred)

Tools

BrowserStack

Sauce Labs

Selenium Grid

JUnit

TestNG

REST Assured

Appium

Job description

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

Description

United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Job overview and responsibilities

As a Senior Automation Test Engineer for Digital Technology at United Airlines, you will be responsible for the delivery of enterprise software testing projects and programs, operation and capital projects with automation first approach. In this role, you will design, implement, and execute automation test approach and strategies and frameworks for all deliverables. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with Quality Managers and Quality Leads to implement quality governance, quality gates, risk assessment, production signoffs, key metrics (KPIs), and tools selection. You should have excellent problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. Additionally, you should be well versed in using Gen AI to bring in innovation/efficiency in your role and responsibilities.

• Lead the design and implementation of automation and manual test strategies for various software and systems utilizing best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with software developers, QE analysts, and system engineers to identify system requirements and ensure quality is met from test planning to production deployment with automation first approach.
• Own and maintain automation artifacts, tools, licenses & framework. Govern automation standards & best practices. Conduct automation audits and assess ROIs.
• Manage and mitigate testing related risks and issues.
• Identify and maintain testing KPI's, track trends and own the power BI reports.
• Integrate automation frameworks with continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Leverage AI when contributing to end-to-end testing (Automation frameworks etc.).

This position is offered on local terms and conditions within United’s wholly owned subsidiary United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Management Information Systems and/or equivalent work experience
• 4 years of relevant work experience
• 6+ years of Test Automation experience.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• ISTQB / CSTE or similar
• Programming Language expertise – Java
• Design, Develop and maintain scalable hybrid test automation frameworks (BDD/JUnit/TestNG)
• Ability to architect solutions across the stack: Web(Selenium), API(RestAssured), Mobile(Appium)
• Experience with Containerization and Cloud Execution Grids (BrowserStack, Sauce labs, Selenium Grid)
• Design Patterns and Framework Design Concepts
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies and STLC across, Release Management
• Create/Support DevOps CICD implementation in AWS/GCP or similar
• Test Data Modeling and Data level testing with RDBMS or NoSQL based structure
• Able to work with distributed global teams.

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Master's degree in computer science, Information Systems
• Airline Domain Knowledge
• UFT/AccelQ/SeeTest
• Python, PyTest
• AccelQ
• Prompt Engineering
• GHCP, Code Assist