Senior Quality Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer I for the Privacy and Data Governance Engineering teams is a key role at the Marriott Tech Accelerator, responsible for ensuring quality assurance and automation excellence across multiple tracks. This role ensures the highest standard of deliverables by managing robust end-to-end testing strategies, fostering collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, and advancing automation practices for scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure quality assurance across all tracks and ensure the integrity and reliability of deliverables.
• Design, implement, and optimise automation frameworks and test strategies for complex backend systems, REST APIs, Kafka-dependent applications, relational databases, and cloud-based deployments.
• Validate and automate test cases for systems leveraging event-driven architectures and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Integrate test cases with CI and CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align testing activities with release goals and business priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement in test processes, defect management, and automation coverage, proactively identifying and addressing gaps in test execution.
• Facilitate technical training and development for team members to elevate overall quality standards.
• Coordinate the scheduling and execution of testing and report errors and issues for resolution.
• Contribute to the identification and ongoing monitoring of risks and concerns.
• Review and approve test scripts and automation flows, ensuring best practices are followed across all initiatives.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience testing ETL data processing with the following tech stack: Python applications, complex SQL-Snowflake scripts, AWS ecosystem (S3 EKS, EMR Serverless, Lambda, and more), Kafka events, Airflow scheduler.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in automation scripting for large-scale applications.
• Prior experience integrating automation test scripts with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Undergraduate/bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.