Lead Quality Engineer SDET

Job Identification: 207188

Job Category: Technology

Job Schedule: Full time

Equal Opportunity Employer EOE, including disability/vets

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

At Hilton, this role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN or Dallas, TX. You will be part of an in‑house Technology team creating consumer‑facing, cutting‑edge technologies that revolutionize the hospitality industry worldwide. 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

• 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 the 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

• 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

• Assigned Automation
• Compliance of quality processes and standards
• Assist with automation guidelines, processes, and tools selection

• 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 you to be near our Dallas or Memphis office location
• Travel up to 5%

• 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

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