Quality Engineering Analyst-Senior

Quality Engineering Analyst-Senior

Marriott International, Inc.: Quality Engineering Analyst-Senior Bethesda, MD

Duties:

• Enable product teams to adapt and implement Quality Engineering (QE) mindset.
• Support application development while the organization shifts from Waterfall and Agile towards SAFe.
• Champion QE principles of automation and continual improvement to advance product development.
• Drive the creation and adoption of automated testing to facilitate innovation, quality, and speed to market.
• Partner with vendor and internal Marriott teams to provide leadership, strategy, and orchestration of all testing events to ensure that quality gates are met consistently, drive automation, and coordinate all impacted groups across the enterprise.
• Provide expert guidance on test data strategy, setup, automated parallel test execution and configuration.
• Coordinate with product teams and Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET) to collect KPIs and metrics in line with QE guidelines.
• Collaborate with platform teams to ensure tools required for testing conform to standards and help implement new solutions as required.
• Work with product teams to ensure integration/end-to-end test cases are identified and maintained.
• Serve as an advocate/representative for selected business units to the Quality Engineering organization.
• Provide end-to-end Quality Engineering approach/strategy focusing on hospitality domain principles.
• Perform complex quantitative and qualitative analyses for delivering automated testing processes and tools.
• Enable tooling such as Tricentis Tosca, Smartbear ReadyAPI, Cucumber etc. based on enterprise strategy.
• Thorough review automation scripts for code/functional coverage, reusability, data seeding and coding standards.
• Facilitate CI/CD using the Jenkins DevOps pipeline.
• Validate solutions with enterprise architecture team.
• Coordinate with operations and infrastructure teams for deployment and production support activities.
• Advise team on debugging aids available for environment.
• Prepare testing schedules and documents expected results.
• Facilitate the scheduling and performing testing, submitting errors and issues for correction.
• Participate in the identification and monitoring of risks and issues.
• Facilitate risk management practices.
• Mentors and coaches product team members on Quality Engineering tasks and procedures.
• Assists in setting best practice quality procedures.
• Reviews and edits product documentation.
• Establish the flow of work within the enterprise quality area.
• Provide leadership and support to quality inspections.
• Function as escalation for SDETs.

Requirements: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or related technical field followed by 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in software development and test engineering using multiple testing methodologies. Experience must include:

• 8 years of experience engaging highly technical architecture, engineering and operations teams and driving outcomes with QA automation.
• 5 years of IT leadership experience.
• 5 years of experience with end-to-end functional automation and CICD tools (Jenkins).
• 1 year of experience in Tosca frameworks, ReadyAPI and Cucumber automation tools.

Telework: 100% Remote; position may be performed from anywhere within the U.S.

Travel: Travel to Marriott HQ in Bethesda, Maryland at least once per quarter

Location: 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD, 20814

At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.