Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
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About the Role
Emirates Group IT seeks a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to design and implement quality engineering practices for agile teams. The role requires 5+ years of experience in quality engineering, strong automation skills, and expertise in tools like Playwright, Cypress, and Java.
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Responsibilities
- Work closely with project members, technical product owners, architects and software engineers to understand delivery context and translate requirements into robust end to end tests
- Liaise with other release train teams to manage testing of cross dependencies
- Ensure Test Tools are configured correctly to support collection of metrics for dashboards
- Support and guide Software Engineers to write and maintain automated functional tests through continuous integration
- Implement, maintain and adapt automation frameworks and test harnesses
- Ensure Quality Gate requirements are understood by the team and met
- Support the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer with coordination of major delivery initiatives
- Support the team in their development, training and understanding of technologies and processes
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience
- 5+ years of experience in quality engineering roles involving complex, scalable software solutions
- Lead and mentor QA engineers; establish automation and coding best practices
- Strong experience in automation frameworks and continuous testing implementation
- Technical experience in Test Automation: Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured
- Programming: Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SpringBoot
- CI/CD: GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
- Cloud & Containers: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- API & Performance Testing: Postman, JMeter, k6
- AI/GenAI: LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, AI assisted testing platforms
- Observability: Grafana, Dynatrace
- Experience using CI tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps or equivalent
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Job Purpose
- At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through our global hub in Dubai, and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers 'Fly Better'.
- Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we're always at the forefront, pushing boundaries.
- As Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, you will design, develop and implement quality engineering practices and processes for a teams within an agile release train in accordance with quality standards and best practice guidelines.
In This Role, You Will
- Work closely with project members, technical product owners, architects and software engineers to understand the complete context of deliveries, translate complex functional and non functional requirements in robust end to end tests that exercise the business process.
- Liaise with other release train teams to manage the testing of cross dependencies.
- Ensure Test Tools are configured correctly and accurately to support the collection of metrics for program and enterprise wide dashboards.
- Support and guide Software Engineers to write and maintain automated functional tests through continuous integration.
- Implement, maintain and adapt automation frameworks. Test harnesses to make end to end tests robust.
- Ensure Quality Gate requirements are understood by the team and met.
- Support the Principal Quality Assurance Engineer with the coordination of major delivery initiatives across multiple domains and environments, ensuring no customer or business impact.
- Support the team in their development, training and understanding of technologies and processes.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience in quality engineering roles involving the building of complex, scalable and large software solutions in digital, data or enterprise domain.
- Lead and mentor QA engineers; establish automation and coding best practices and own and drive quality across the SDLC (shift left & shift right practices).
- Strong experience in automation frameworks and continuous testing implementation
- Technical Experience in: Test Automation: Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured; Programming: Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SpringBoot; CI/CD: GitLab CI, Azure DevOps; Cloud & Containers: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes; API & Performance Testing: Postman, JMeter, k6; AI/GenAI: LLM evaluation, pr
- Highly experienced with developing automation frameworks from scratch built for UI and API testing and integration with CI pipelines.
- Experience using CI tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps or equivalent.
- Strong expertise with context driven and exploratory testing with practical experience of using a number of testing heuristics.
Salary & Benefits
- Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world.
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