Job Description

About Delta Air Lines
About the Company
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence 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 2024, Delta was recognized by Fortune with a No. 11 placement on Fortune's Top 50 Most Admired Companies list. The company's strong management and commitment to providing elevated experiences and premium products also secured a No. 1 ranking out of the eight airlines on the list. Delta landed on TIME's inaugural list of the "World's Best Companies," coming in at No. 12 - the only U.S. airline in the top 155. TIME's award is based on three criteria: employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability.
Delta's people-first culture continues to be recognized, earning the airline a spot on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the fifth year. Delta is the only airline included on the 2024 list.
Additionally, Delta earned a coveted spot, on Fast Company's list of the Most Innovative Companies, climbing from its No. 8 spot in 2023 to No. 2 in the travel category. The airline was recognized for its Wi-Fi revolution that is working to ensure the future of travel is connected.
About the Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
Delta has fast emerged as a customer-focused, innovation-led, technology-enabled business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives.

ROLE DESCRIPTION:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain software to test the product/application
• Define automation strategy, automation cases as well as Design tools for unit, functional, and performance testing in a programmatic manner
• Participate in design and code inspections
• Propose improvements to our existing processes and build automated tools, libraries and utilities in order to improve the teams speed, quality and efficiency
• Work with a wide variety of technologies from front-end UI to back-end distributed web services
• Own the design and implementation of tests that will help in end-to-end quality of major deliverables working closely with multiple engineers and teams to implement them
• Integration of both the tests and infrastructure automation into the CI/CD pipeline is also a key responsibility in this position
• Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development.
• Be aggressive to resolve and prevent technical debt.
• Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve.
• Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding.
• Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts.
• Create usable documentation/playbook(s)
• Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs communicate these across the team.
• Optimize pace and meet deadlines.
• Administer product upgrades and patches.
• Aid and support other team members where required

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS):

• 6-9 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in Cloud-native development, RESTful APIs, and stateless microservices
• Experience with Java 8/11/J2EE and the Spring/Quarkus framework.
• Candidate should have experience writing, maintaining Microservices and APIs written in Java
• Experience in designing and implementing RESTful services using XML/JSON
• Strong AWS experience with background in API, Microservices development
• Experience with the core AWS services like Lambdas, S3, SQS, SES, SNS, EC2, Code Pipeline, Athena, DynamoDB, RDS. Strong understanding of core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and virtual networks from a cloud point of view
• Knowledge and/or experience in working with 12-factor methodology and understanding its benefits, and able to demonstrate appropriate patterns to other team members
• Experience deploying applications in OpenShift/ROSA (or another Docker/Kubernetes container)
• Candidate should have hands on experience of writing, maintaining API automated tests written in Java, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc.
• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs and execute as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, XP etc.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices; with tools such as Git/Gitlab, Jira/VersionOne/Agility, Jenkins/Tekton, Gradle, Ansible
• Knowledge and/or experience with messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
• Knowledge or experience of NoSQL databases like Mongo, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Graph DB etc. will be an added advantage
• Ability to clearly communicate and coordinate with peers, product owners, and cross functional teams and design a relevant and time to market solution.
• Must have the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies.
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
• Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• Design Thinking
• Ensure code quality and documentation for supporting application post deployment.
• Experience working with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit, etc. and a strong ability to create test reports from automation test run using Cucumber report, Extent report, etc.
• Ability to mentor and guide a team of SDE, SDETs, TPE in project/programs and able to provide technical guidance and support to the junior team members
• Ability to connect with peers, business analysts, and domain experts and the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individuals should be able to resolve urgent problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
• Proactive in nature with a customer-centric focus
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS):

• Prior travel industry experience
• Infrastructure automation using Docker and tools like Chef, Puppet, Terraform
• Experience of working with various AWS cloud services such as EC2, S3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CloudFormation, etc.
• Experience virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc.
• Experience with test management and agile management tools such as VersionOne, qTest etc.
• Experience of non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, accessibility and usability testing.

Skills Required