Senior Automation Test Engineer (UI & Backend Automation)

Overview

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.
  
  

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 – Web, Mobile, Desktop, Container, Backend APIs, DB, MQ, Cloud tech AWS or similar AccelQ, Selenium, SeeTest or similar, ReadyAPI, UFT, AI tool, ADO/JIra, Dynatrace or similar APM tool
• 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
• Citrix, Docker, AWS