Hyatt Hotels Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join their Digital – Marketing Technology Organization. This role involves building and scaling automated test solutions for services deployed in AWS, focusing on data quality, personalization logic, and system reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for cloud native services, APIs, and event driven workflows running in AWS
- Develop integration, contract, and end to end tests validating interactions across customer data platforms, personalization engines, campaign orchestration, and downstream channels
- Embed automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to support fast, reliable releases
- Validate personalization, segmentation, and eligibility logic across channels, regions, brands, and guest journeys
- Create reusable libraries and tooling that enable engineering teams to self service testing at scale
- Build automated tests for AI and ML driven systems, including recommendation outputs, decision logic, and optimization flows
- Ensure correctness and stability of guest data pipelines, identity resolution, and activation outputs
- Implement automated checks for schema changes, data anomalies, latency, and failure scenarios
- Partner with engineering teams to improve testability, observability, and resilience of services
- Leverage AWS native tooling and logs to support test diagnostics, debugging, and root cause analysis
- Participate in incident reviews and contribute to prevention through automated quality controls and tooling
- Promote a culture of quality engineering, automation, and shared ownership across the MarTech organization
- Coordinate larger testing efforts and sharing of best practices across teams and organizations
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, test automation, or quality engineering
- Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript the team uses TypeScript
- Experience designing and implementing service level and API test automation
- Hands on experience testing systems deployed in AWS, including microservices and serverless architectures
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of test strategy across the testing pyramid and distributed systems
- Experience testing personalization, recommendation, or AI decisioning platforms
- Familiarity with customer data platforms (CDPs), marketing automation, or campaign orchestration tools
- Experience validating or testing machine learning model integrations
- Knowledge of data quality testing, schema validation, and contract testing
- Experience working in large scale digital, ecommerce, or consumer platforms