Lead QA Engineer - Global Aviation Automation & CI

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel benefits

Tax-free salary

Job summary

Emirates in Dubai is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Product Engineering team, driving automated testing for diverse airline software powering passenger services, airport operations and cargo systems. This role demands hands-on leadership in test design, data management and cross-domain collaboration.

You will work with development, product, and operations teams to implement robust end-to-end tests, raise quality gates, and advance CI/CD through scalable automation

Qualifications

• Degree or Honours (12+3) or equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience.
• 5+ years of 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Selenium

Protractor

Jasmine

Cucumber

Gherkin

JUnit/TestNG

JavaScript

Java

CI/CD

Git

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience with large-scale test data frameworks

Experience with test automation tools and frameworks

Tools

Selenium Grid

Protractor

Jasmine

Cucumber

Gherkin

JUnit

TestNG

Git

GitHub

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

CI pipelines

VMs

Containers

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Emirates in Dubai is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to join the Product Engineering team, driving automated testing for diverse airline software powering passenger services, airport operations and cargo systems. This role demands hands-on leadership in test design, data management and cross-domain collaboration.

You will work with development, product, and operations teams to implement robust end-to-end tests, raise quality gates, and advance CI/CD through scalable automation