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.