Job DescriptionThis role is based at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA; Dallas, TX; or Memphis, TN
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 StayYou 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 McLean, 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.
