Senior Automation Test Engineer (Rest Assured (API Automation))

United Airlines; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Automation Test Engineer to join their innovative Digital Technology team. This exciting role involves leading the design and implementation of automation strategies for enterprise software testing. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality and efficiency in software delivery. With a focus on automation, you will drive the integration of cutting-edge technologies, including GenAI, into testing frameworks. This position offers a unique opportunity to grow your career while contributing to a forward-thinking organization that values teamwork and innovation. If you have a passion for technology and a desire to make an impact, this role is for you.

Benefits

Health and Wellness Benefits

Travel Opportunities

Employee Resource Groups

Flexible Work Environment

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in Software Automation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
• Ability to work under time constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation test strategies and frameworks.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure quality from test planning to deployment.
• Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Software Automation

Problem-Solving Skills

Attention to Detail

Agile Methodologies

Cloud Technologies

Test Automation Programming

Backend Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree

Tools

Selenium

AWS

JIRA

Loadrunner

Postman

Fiddler

Dynatrace

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 designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together.

Job overview and responsibilities

As a Senior Automation Test Engineer of 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 strategies and frameworks for all deliverables. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with US Quality Managers and Quality Leads to implement quality governance, quality gates, risk assessment, production signoffs, key metrics (KPIs), and tools selection.

Additionally, a Senior Automation Test Engineer, you should have excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

• 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
• Integrate GenAI into existing automation framework and improve the quality of the automation test scripts for functional, regression, sanity and end-to-end testing.

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

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or 4 years of relevant work experience
• 4-6 years of experience in Software Automation
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• ISQTB / CSTE or similar
• Loadrunner
• Test automation programming / scripting with solid skills in one of the tools for UI, API and Desktop – API Testing, ReadyAPI, Rest Assure, Selenium (UI), Cloud testing, ADO/JIRA or similar, Mainframe testing, Postman, Fiddler
• Software Test Life Cycle
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Backend Testing (API, Mainframe, Middleware)
• Release Management Processes
• Cloud Technologies
• Test Data Modeling
• Support DevOps CICD implementation
• Able to work with distributed global teams.
• Ability to work under time constraint.
• Support during off / CST hours during production deployments

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

• Master's degree
• Airline Domain Knowledge
• AccelQ, AWS - (Dynamo DB, Lambda, Cloud Watch, Aurora DB), Java, Dynatrace, Github actions, Harness, Kibana