Lead Quality Engineer SDET

JobID: 207188

Category: Technology

JobSchedule: Full time

Posted Date: 2026-06-01T13:32:38+00:00

JobShift:

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 TypeScript
• 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., GitHub 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.