Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

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'.

Job Description

Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we are always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We are on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. Join our Quality Engineering team as Lead Quality Assurance Engineer and help shape the future of quality engineering within the world's largest international airline.

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 into 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 and 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

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience. An iSQI Certified Agile Tester.
• Min of 5 years of Information technology experience (with experience in quality engineering roles involving the building of complex, scalable and large software solutions in digital, data or enterprise domain).
• Solid experience as a Software Quality engineering lead or equivalent position looking after multiple products. Experience in providing product input on business process flows and scenario mapping for business solutions.
• Experience in understanding and applying system thinking to advanced technology solutions for large, complex organisations in a multi functional environment. Experience with creating and maintaining large scale test data frameworks to support test automation.
• 3+ years of experience using one or more of the following automation tools: Selenium components (WebDriver, Grid, etc.), Protractor, Jasmin, Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, TestNG.
• Experience using git SCM tools, GitHub or Bitbucket or similar tools.
• Proficiency in at least 2 different programming languages, preferably JavaScript and Java. Experienced with coding best practices and defining coding guidelines.
• 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.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with VMs and containers both on prem and cloud offerings like Amazon and Google Cloud. Aware of the latest testing and technology trends and using them to improve daily practices.

Leadership Role

NO

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 hotels stays around the world. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website.

Job Details

Role Level: Mid Level

Work Type: Full Time

Country: United Arab Emirates

City: Dubai

Company Website:

Job Function: Information Technology (IT)

Sector: Airlines and Aviation