Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - SDET

Job description / Role

About Emirates

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 a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer.

Job Outline

• Work closely with project members, technical product owners, architects, and software engineers to understand the complete context of deliveries and translate complex functional and non-functional requirements into robust end-to-end tests.
• 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 programme and enterprise-wide dashboards.
• Support and guide software engineers to write and maintain unit tests, contract tests, and other automated functional tests through continuous integration.
• Implement, maintain, and adapt automation frameworks and test harnesses to make end-to-end tests robust.
• Tenacity to ensure quality gate requirements are understood by the team and met.
• Support the coordination of major delivery initiatives across multiple domains and environments, ensuring no customer or business impact.
• Support the manual testers in the team in their development, training, and understanding of technologies and processes related to automation.

Qualifications & Experience

Knowledge/Skills:

• Degree or honours (12+3 or equivalent): Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• 3+ years in information technology experience in quality engineering roles within a digital or e-commerce environment.
• Experience as a SDET or equivalent position looking after multiple products.
• Extensive hands-on experience with developing UI and API automation frameworks and familiarity with common programming and scripting languages (Java, Python, JS, C++, Ruby, Perl, C#).
• Automation frameworks experience using one or more of the following automation tools: Selenium components (Java WebDriver, Grid, etc.), Jasmine, Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, XCUITest, Playwright, Cypress, Lambda Test, or SauceLabs.
• Experience using Git SCM tools, GitHub, Bitbucket, or similar tools, CI tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent, and proficiency in at least two different programming languages utilizing coding best practices and defining coding guidelines.
• Experience in providing product input on business process flows and scenario mapping for business solutions and being up to date with the latest testing and technology trends.
• Strong expertise with context-driven and exploratory testing with practical experience of using a number of testing heuristics.
• Experience working with VMs and containers both on-prem and cloud offerings like Amazon and Google Cloud as well as integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting, etc.
• Leading teams to implement new tools and techniques to raise the quality of deliveries.

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.