Lead Software QE Engineering

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Software • Travel
The Role
The Lead Software Quality Engineer will develop and manage test automation strategies for cloud-based applications, mentor teams, and ensure quality governance across platforms.
Summary Generated by Built In

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

Development & Engineering General Job Description
Team Description

The AirPrice Team is expanding as we look to transform our existing technologies and build new generation software solutions.  We are seeking a Lead Quality Engineer with deep expertise in cloud-based application testing, modern automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright), and CI/CD-driven quality, who can own quality strategy across complex platforms and lead automation at scale.

This role is hands-on and strategic—owning test architecture, automation frameworks, quality governance, and continuous improvement for cloud-hosted applications

Team/ Project description……
At Sabre, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. In this role you will plan, design, develop and test software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools.
Role and Responsibilities:

  • Cloud Quality Strategy & Leadership

  • Own and drive the quality strategy for cloud-based applications, aligning with architectural and business goals.
  • Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering Leads to ensure quality is built into design and delivery.
  • Define automation-first quality standards, best practices, and quality gates across the SDLC.
  • Lead and mentor Quality Engineers, fostering a culture of engineering-driven quality and ownership.
  • Test Automation & Framework Engineering

  • Architect, design, and maintain scalable automation frameworks using:
    • Playwright for UI automation
    • API automation frameworks (REST/GraphQL)
  • Ensure strong coverage across E2E, integration, regression, negative, and exploratory testing.
  • Drive cross-browser, cross-device, and parallel test execution strategies.
  • Ensure test automation is reliable, maintainable, and optimized for cloud execution.
  • CI/CD & Continuous Quality

  • Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, enabling early feedback and release confidence.
  • Implement quality gates and automation metrics to prevent regressions.
  • Support blue/green, canary, and feature-flag-based release validation.
  • Drive shift-left testing practices across teams.
  • Non-Functional & Reliability Testing

  • Lead testing for performance, scalability, resiliency, and failover in cloud environments.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on resilience testing (timeouts, retries, graceful degradation).
  • Participate in production readiness reviews and post-incident analysis from a quality perspective.
  • Defect Management & Continuous Improvement

  • Produce high-quality, actionable defect reports with root cause analysis.
  • Identify systemic quality gaps and technical debt.
  • Continuously improve tools, frameworks, and processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.
  • Maintain documentation for test strategies, automation frameworks, and runbooks.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

  • Minimum 8+ years of related experience
  • Experience in fast paced Software Development in Agile environment
  • Strong expertise on ideating, creating , maintaining and implementing test automation frameworks.
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
  • Knowledge of cloud based tech/languages, technology stacks, etc.
  • Proficient English, both written and verbal
  • Self-disciplined and commitment oriented

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.

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Top Skills

Api Automation Frameworks
Ci/Cd
GraphQL
Playwright
Rest
Selenium
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The Company
HQ: Southlake, TX
8,150 Employees

What We Do

We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry.

Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions.

Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives.

Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry.

We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few.

Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology.

We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”

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