Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 660,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Travel benefits

Job summary

Emirates is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to design and implement quality practices for agile teams and ensure robust end-to-end testing across digital platforms.

This hands-on leadership role combines technical depth with the ability to influence engineers, architects, and product owners while advancing automation and CI/CD quality controls.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience.
• 5+ years in quality engineering building large software solutions.
• Experience leading QE across large programmes and multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategies and build scalable automation frameworks.
• Mentor engineers, product owners and delivery teams on quality practices.
• Coordinate QA across multiple domains and environments.
• Ensure quality gates and release-readiness for deployments.
• Embed a culture of quality throughout the SDLC.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Test Leadership

Automation Frameworks

CI/CD

API Testing

Automation Testing

SIT

E2E Testing

Education

Bachelor in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

Selenium

TestNG

Cucumber

JUnit

Job description

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 a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer.

As Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, you will design, develop and implement quality engineering practices and processes for a teams 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. You will define test strategies, build scalable automation frameworks, and embed a culture of quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep technical expertise with the ability to influence engineers, architects, product owners, and delivery teams.

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. 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.

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

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in quality engineering roles involving the building of complex, scalable and large software solutions in digital, data or enterprise domain
• Proven experience leading or coordinating Quality Engineering across large-scale programmes, multiple products, teams, integrations, and business workstreams.
• Experience coordinating Quality Engineers, Test Leads, and distributed testing activities across concurrent delivery streams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence programme leadership, architects, delivery teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Strong experience defining QE strategies, governance frameworks, quality operating models, testing standards, and programme-level quality controls.
• Solid background in test planning, release assurance, defect governance, RAID management, executive quality reporting, and delivery confidence assessments.
• Experience establishing quality gates, release-readiness assessments, go/no-go recommendations, executive dashboards, and evidence-based release reporting.
• Strong understanding of SIT, integration, E2E, business process testing, UAT support, data migration, regression, automation strategy, CI/CD quality controls, APIs, microservices, test data, environments, and release quality controls.

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 www.emirates.com/careers