Lead Quality Engineer SDET

Category:
Technology

Job Schedule:

Full time

Posted Date: T13:32:38+00:00

Job Shift:

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

EOE, including disability/vets

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN or Dallas, TX

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Lead Quality Engineer SDET, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Quality Engineering team reporting to the Director of Quality Engineering, you will support assigned projects including:

* Work within an Agile team alongside UI developers analyzing the application architecture and delivering quality automation via Unit, Component, Cross Browser, Visual Regression, and End-to-end tests

* Work with Git, Nx, Next, React, Tailwind, Vitest, Cypress or Playwright, and GraphQL

* Influence the inclusion of testability during development phases

* Participate in code reviews

What you'll do during a typical day:

* Evaluate automation strategies to identify areas for improvement and increase testing efficiency

* Be the critical link between software development engineers and quality engineering by combining coding expertise with testing strategies

* Ensure compliance of quality processes and standards

* Influence testability during development phases

* Participate in Agile ceremonies, and functioning processes and testing of products

* Design and write automated scripts that run tests on new and/or existing software/ apps in an Agile environment

* Leverage modern AI-assisted developer productivity tools to accelerate test creation, improve code quality, and enhance automation efficiency across the SDLC.

* Apply AI-enabled quality engineering techniques to support debugging, test case generation, and risk analysis, helping advance Hilton's AI-enhanced engineering pipeline.

* Configure and experiment with lightweight AI agents to automate portions of testing workflows, including prompt-driven test generation and automated analysis of test results.

How you'll collaborate with others:

* Work multi-functionally to help discover and eliminate issues through testing end-user workflows

* Collaborate with Software Engineers to achieve expected quality levels in products

* Collaborate with UI Software Engineers in projects by advising and implementing quality automation standards

* Mentor and lead others as assigned

Deliverables you'll take ownership of:

* Assigned Automation

* Compliance of quality processes and standards

* Assist with automation guidelines, processes, and tools selection

What It Takes to Make the Stay

You have these minimum qualifications:

* Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field

* Five (5) years of experience in web application development and/or testing

* Proficiency with JavaScript or Type Script

* Proficiency in the Cypress or Playwright testing frameworks

* This is a hybrid role and would require to be near our Dallas or Memphis office location

* Travel up to 5%

It would be useful if you have:

* Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus six plus (6+) years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus twelve plus (12+) years of Technology related experience

* Seven (7) + years of professional work experience in Technology or related field

* Exposure to large-scale enterprise software products such as Atlassian

* Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Claude) to support test automation, code generation, and developer productivity

* Exposure to agent-based productivity frameworks or emerging ecosystems such as model-context-based platforms (MCP) as examples

* Experience configuring lightweight AI-powered agents to enhance testing workflows-for example, customizing prompts, tool-invocation steps, or automated test-generation behaviors

* Interest in exploring new AI-driven engineering approaches and contributing to Hilton's evolution toward AI-enhanced quality engineering practices.