Software Development Engineer III - Platform Automation

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Gurgaon, India

Software Development Engineer III role focused on building and maintaining scalable internal tools and utilities for developer productivity enhancement, with a specific emphasis on leveraging AI/ML-enabled solutions to improve test automation, release cycles, and quality insights within Expedia Group's Platform Quality team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, develop, and maintain robust test automation frameworks, internal tools, and utilities that leverage AI/ML‑enabled solutions to enhance developer productivity and accelerate release cycles.
  2. Write clean, maintainable, and optimized code using strong knowledge of software design principles, data structures, design patterns, and computer science fundamentals across multiple tech stacks including native mobile apps, web, and APIs.
  3. Investigate and perform root cause analysis (RCA) of test failures and system issues, using deep understanding of the surrounding systems, logs, and monitoring to design and implement durable fixes.
  4. Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve test coverage, failure detection, and feedback loops, while ensuring reliability, observability, and maintainability of these solutions in production workflows.
  5. Utilize and refine industry‑standard test automation frameworks, CI/CD workflows (such as GitHub Actions), and operational tooling (such as RCP/MCP servers, Datadog, Splunk) to continuously improve quality and efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
  • Professional software development or test automation engineering experience, including building and debugging applications and internal tools, with strength in at least one programming language and exposure to multiple technology implementations.
  • Working knowledge of industry‑standard testing and monitoring tools for automated and distributed systems, and the ability to interpret system behavior and logs to perform effective RCA of failures.
  • Ability to design and implement code and framework changes that improve stability, reliability, and test effectiveness across services or components, including familiarity with CI/CD workflows and observability tooling.

Nice to have

  • Experience developing software, automation frameworks, or internal tools in at least two programming languages (such as Java and Python), including designing and maintaining test automation systems or high‑usage internal utilities from scratch.
  • Proven ability to apply design patterns for scalable, maintainable systems and frameworks, including system design (low‑level design), API design, and data modeling for test and tooling platforms.
  • Demonstrated impact in selecting appropriate technologies and architectures to solve business and quality needs, connecting team goals to broader business outcomes and identifying project‑level business problems with corresponding technical solutions.
  • Familiarity with AI‑driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve test automation, developer workflows, or quality insights.
  • Experience operating test automation and internal tooling at scale, including optimizing CI/CD pipelines, observability (Datadog, Splunk), and reliability for multi‑service or cross‑platform environments.

What the JD emphasized

  • Must have developed Internal or industry standard based web or native app test automation solution which is highly stable & scalable.
  • Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions

Other signals

  • AI/ML-enabled solutions to enhance developer productivity
  • Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions
  • improve test coverage, failure detection, and feedback loops