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.
Senior Quality Engineer – Cloud Applications & Test Automation
Sabre is the global leader in innovative technology that powers the travel industry. We are looking for passionate Quality Engineers who love breaking systems (and helping rebuild them better), thrive in modern cloud environments, and are excited to deliver high-quality software at scale. If you enjoy working on complex cloud-native systems, driving automation, and collaborating closely with engineering and product teams—Sabre is the place for you.
The Revenue Optimization Team is expanding as we modernize our platforms and move to cloud-native architectures. We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer who brings strong hands-on testing and automation expertise, a quality-first mindset, and the ability to own test strategy and execution for complex cloud-based applications.
This role is ideal for an experienced QE who can independently drive quality for features and services, while working closely with Lead Quality Engineers and development teams.
Responsibilities
Quality Engineering & Test Design
- Quickly understanding the products, also from business/workflow/dataflow perspective
- Owning high level tests (playwright, sanity, etc.) - maintain, follow up with teams on failures, etc.
- Analyze defect leakage reasons and take action (automation opportunities, process improvements, etc.)
- Work across multiple teams to look at holistic quality of the product
- Help with release management (understand what is in scope, how each of items in scope is tested, how it's managed by feature flags)
- Drive integration testing initiatives with other modules and products
- Collaborate with delivery team on scenarios gathering
- Plan and run regression tests, coordinate this with teams
- Design, implement, and execute comprehensive test plans, scenarios, and test cases based on business and technical requirements.
- Perform functional, integration, system, and regression testing for cloud-native applications and APIs.
- Ensure test coverage across E2E, regression, negative, and exploratory testing.
- Validate data flows and business logic across services and databases.
Test Automation
- Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks and scripts for web, API, and backend services.
- Build automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and REST API automation frameworks.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing.
- Actively improve automation coverage, reliability, and execution efficiency.
- Identify gaps in automation and propose new automated tests layers
Cloud & Platform Testing
- Test applications deployed on cloud platforms (GCP preferred), including containerized and microservices-based systems.
- Validate non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, resiliency, and security.
- Participate in testing cloud-native features like auto-scaling, failover, and multi-environment deployments.
Defect Management & Collaboration
- Identify, analyze, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps and impact analysis.
- Work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Platform teams to resolve issues quickly.
- Participate in design and requirement discussions to shift quality left in the development lifecycle.
- Support production issue analysis and root cause investigations when required.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute ideas to improve testing processes, tools, and frameworks.
- Mentor junior Quality Engineers through reviews, guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Skills
Experience
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering and testing.
Testing & Automation Skills
- Strong experience in manual and automated testing of web, API, and backend applications.
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, or similar.
- Experience testing microservices-based architectures and distributed systems.
- Solid experience with API testing (REST/JSON, Postman, REST Assured, or similar).
Cloud & DevOps
- Experience testing applications deployed on public cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable).
- Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into build and deployment workflows.
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
Data & Tools
- Ability to write and execute SQL queries for data validation and test execution.
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and SDLC.
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a global team.
- Strong attention to detail with a quality-driven mindset.
- Willingness to continuously learn new tools, technologies, and testing approaches.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (required).
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (preferred).
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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