Software Development Engineer [T500-19196]

About Delta Tech Hub:

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers.

“Why join?”:

• Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
• Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs –exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
• Collaborate with research, innovation and IP co-development partners.
• Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
• Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
• Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Insurance, Commute, Meals, Retirement, and Special Travel opportunities.
• Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Insurance, Commute, Meals and special travel opportunities.

HOW YOU WILL HELP US KEEP CLIMBING (OVERVIEW & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES):

The Full Stack Developer, Java / API will be responsible for designing, developing, documenting, testing and debugging new and existing software APIs as well as applications within our Revenue Account environment. The Full Stack Developer must have a strong understanding of user and process requirements and the ability to ensure those requirements can be achieved through high-quality deliverables.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and develop cloud-native applications, features and enhancements with an emphasis on clean, highly efficient, supportable, and well documented code for the full technological stack
• Contribute to agile development teams following 12 Factor application development principles
• Collaborate effectively within team environment

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS):

• Embraces Diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• 3+ years of experience with Java/J2EE development, hands-on troubleshooting and deployment
• Knowledge of full stack Cloud-native development, RESTful APIs, Graph based APIs and serverless microservices with Springboot
• Knowledge and experience with DevOps: Git, Jenkins and/or Ansible
• Knowledge of Microservices.
• Knowledge and/or experience with messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
• Must have the ability to clearly communicate with peers, business analysts, and subject matter experts
• Must have the ability to listen to customers and colleagues; convey ideas effectively; prepare written documentation
• Proactive in nature with customer satisfaction as a primary goal
• Experience deploying applications in AWS or OpenShift (Kubernetes)
• Hands on experience of programming concept such as OOPs in scripting languages like Java, Python and JavaScript
• Hands on experience with one or more querying languages.
• Hands on experience of building test automation framework from ground up using modular framework and design pattern like Page Object Model design pattern (POM) etc.
• Hands on experience working with source code management tools such as GitLab, GitHub, AWS Code Commit etc.
• Able to independently create and maintain automation test jobs using tools such as Jenkins.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools and evolving technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Experience using AI tools for development and other tasks

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS):

• Experience of working with AWS cloud services such as EC2, s3 bucket, AWS code pipeline, CDK, cloudwatch etc.
• Solid data modeling skills for DB2, SQL (Oracle) and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)
• Candidate should have hands on experience of writing, maintaining automated UI and APIs tests written in Java, Python using various open-source testing libraries like Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, etc.
• Hands on experience in automating backend REST services including writing custom functions using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Cypress, Ready API etc.
• Experience of working in distributed agile teams using agile frameworks such as SCRUM, SAFe, XP etc.
• Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc.
• Knowledge and experience with the Travel Industry and/or Finance
• Knowledge and experience with Test Driven Development with a testing framework
• Knowledge and Experience of Caching Frameworks (ehCache, Redis etc)
• Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc.
• Experience of writing, designing functional test cases using TDD and BDD methodologies using Gherkin syntax.
• Experience of working with test management and agile management tools such as VersionOne, qTest etc.
• Experience of working with container orchestration tools such as docker, RED Hat OpenShift, AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience of non-functional testing such as performance, load, stress, security, compliance and usability testing.