Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Job description / Role

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. Embark on a journey with the world's largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Web & Mobile Platforms - Emiratisation.

As a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Web & Mobile Platforms - Emiratisation, you will design, develop and implement quality engineering practices and processes for a team(s) within an agile release train in accordance with quality standards and best practice guidelines. Ensure adoption of modern delivery practices for quality products and services built using world class engineering practices.

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 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.

Qualification

To be considered for this role you must meet the below requirements:

• 5+ years of experience and degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
• An iSQI Certified Agile Tester.
• 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, Jasmine, Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, TestNG.
• Experience with Java unit and component tests including vert.x. Espresso and XCUITest automation experience.
• Experience using git SCM tools, GitHub or Bitbucket or similar tools.
• Proficiency in at least 2 different programming languages, preferably JavaScript and Java.
• Highly experienced with developing automation frameworks from scratch built for UI and API testing and integration with CI pipelines.

Leadership role

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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. 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.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.