Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
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About the Role
Emirates Group IT seeks a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Quality Engineering team, assuring operationally critical systems. You will build automated API and UI tests, drive non-functional quality, and hold vendor solutions to high standards.
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Responsibilities
- Work closely with architects, software engineers and product owners to translate complex functional and non functional requirements, and provide early feedback on risks in design and delivery.
- Own a concise test strategy for your initiative, covering functional, automation, non functional and environment/data needs, aligned to the wider Test Like Ops approach.
- Prioritise testing by business impact and operational risk, focusing effort on the user journeys and failure paths that hurt the operation most.
- Build, maintain and adapt automation frameworks and harnesses, integrated into CI/CD for fast, reliable feedback.
- Push for production like environments and realistic test data — including service virtualisation or stubbing where dependencies are unstable or vendor controlled.
- Hold vendor delivered solutions to defined entry/exit and acceptance criteria, demanding operationally meaningful evidence of readiness.
- Feed production incidents back into test design and regression so the same failures don't recur.
- Liaise with other release train teams to manage testing of cross dependencies, and ensure test tools and metrics feed program and enterprise dashboards accurately.
Requirements
- 3 years in an Information Technology Degree or Honours or equivalent Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- 6+ years in quality engineering, including recent experience assuring operationally critical or 24/7 systems where downtime carries real business impact.
- Experience as a Software Quality Engineering lead or equivalent, looking after multiple products or an end to end initiative.
- Extensive hands on experience developing UI and API automation frameworks, proficient in at least two languages (e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript) with strong coding practices.
- Practical experience with automation tooling (e.g. Selenium/WebDriver, Cucumber/Gherkin, JUnit/TestNG) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps or equivalent).
- Demonstrable non functional testing depth — performance, resilience, failover/recovery and observability — treated as part of release confidence.
- Strong expertise in risk based, context driven and exploratory testing, using recognised heuristics.
- Experience delivering within a SAFe / Agile Release Train or equivalent PI cadenced model.
- Experience assuring vendor delivered solutions against measurable acceptance criteria.
- Desirable: exposure to security or compliance driven environments (access control, surveillance, identity/integration platforms); test data management (synthetic generation/masking); production like environment setup; and practical use of AI in QE.
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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.
- We're on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry.
- As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will join our Quality Engineering team, where quality lies at the heart of how we operate.
- We are building a team of quality engineers who assure the operationally critical systems that keep Emirates running — from real time operational decision making to the security platforms that protect our people, aircraft and infrastructure.
- We are looking for professionals who judge quality by operational reality, not by test counts.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with architects, software engineers and product owners to translate complex functional and non functional requirements, and provide early feedback on risks in design and delivery.
- Own a concise test strategy for your initiative, covering functional, automation, non functional and environment/data needs, aligned to the wider Test Like Ops approach.
- Prioritise testing by business impact and operational risk, focusing effort on the user journeys and failure paths that hurt the operation most.
- Build, maintain and adapt automation frameworks and harnesses, integrated into CI/CD for fast, reliable feedback.
- Push for production like environments and realistic test data — including service virtualisation or stubbing where dependencies are unstable or vendor controlled.
- Hold vendor delivered solutions to defined entry/exit and acceptance criteria, demanding operationally meaningful evidence of readiness.
- Feed production incidents back into test design and regression so the same failures don't recur.
- Liaise with other release train teams to manage testing of cross dependencies, and ensure test tools and metrics feed program and enterprise dashboards accurately.
Qualifications
- 3 years in an Information Technology Degree or Honours or equivalent Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- 6+ years in quality engineering, including recent experience assuring operationally critical or 24/7 systems where downtime carries real business impact.
- Experience as a Software Quality Engineering lead or equivalent, looking after multiple products or an end to end initiative.
- Extensive hands on experience developing UI and API automation frameworks, proficient in at least two languages (e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript) with strong coding practices.
- Practical experience with automation tooling (e.g. Selenium/WebDriver, Cucumber/Gherkin, JUnit/TestNG) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps or equivalent).
- Demonstrable non functional testing depth — performance, resilience, failover/recovery and observability — treated as part of release confidence.
- Strong expertise in risk based, context driven and exploratory testing, using recognised heuristics.
- Experience delivering within a SAFe / Agile Release Train or equivalent PI cadenced model.
- Experience assuring vendor delivered solutions against measurable acceptance criteria.
- Desirable: exposure to security or compliance driven environments (access control, surveillance, identity/integration platforms); test data management (synthetic generation/masking); production like environment setup; and practical use of AI in QE.
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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