Engineering Test Technical Manager (DevOps, CodeQuality)

United's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Our Values: At United Airlines, we believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Our Shared Purpose: "Connecting people. Uniting the world." drives us to be the best airline for our employees, customers, and everyone we serve, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. Our team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. 

With multiple employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work that will make you feel welcome and accepted. Come join our team and help us make a positive impact on the world.

Job overview and responsibilities

As an Engineering Test Technical Manager for DevOps and Code Quality of Digital Technology at United Airlines, you will be responsible for driving the implementation, governance, and optimizations of code quality tools like SonarQube and DevOps tools like Jenkins, Harness. You will closely collaborate with the cross functional application development teams to integrate automated quality checks in CI/CD pipelines, establish metrics for measuring code quality and reliability. You will work with stakeholders ensuring product teams are adhering to coding standards set within SonarQube and DevOps tools.

·       Build DevOps framework and templates to Integrate testing suites (sanity, functional, integration, regression, end to end and performance testing suites) into CICD pipeline to enable touchless continuous testing.

·       Lead the adoption and scaling of code quality tools (e.g. SonarQube or similar tools) to ensure robust code quality standards with development practices are followed.

·       Identify & address technical debt related issues and risk to the application development teams. Manage and mitigate testing related risks and issues.

·       Drive a culture of code quality with setting code analysis to run every time you commit and push changes to your code repository.

·       Develop and implement strategies for continuous improvements in code quality and DevOps practices that are adoptable and standardized across organization.

·       Collaborate with teams to scale test automation to integrate automated testing at every stage of pipeline, increasing In-Sprint automation coverage and improving regression testing efficiency.

·       Establish robust monitoring and feedback mechanisms, enabling insights into pipeline performance, defect detection and test reliability.

This position is offered on local terms and conditions.  Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

·       AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or similar certifications.

·       ISTQB® advanced level Certification in Test automation (CT-PT).

·       Loadrunner

·       8+ years of Software DevOps

·       5+ years of people management

·       Prepare and communicate KPIs related to efficiency, cost, and quality

·       Thorough knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle.

·       Expertise in DevOps tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Harness.

·       Proficiency in Code quality and governance tools like SonarQube, Fortify etc.

·       Solid understanding of test environment, agile, DevOps methodologies and release management concepts.

·       Exposure to Cloud Technologies.

·       Exposure to DevOps (CI/CD) practice

·       Good understanding of test automation frameworks like Selenium, Appium, test NG etc.

·       Solid relationship and collaboration skills.

Preferred

·       Airline Domain Knowledge