Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

The Emirates Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

The Emirates Group is seeking an experienced Software Quality Engineering Lead in Dubai to shape and drive automated testing across multiple product teams. You will mentor engineers, define testing strategies, and ensure robust end-to-end coverage using UI and API automation frameworks.

Key responsibilities include collaborating with architects, product owners, and QA peers to identify risks, set up scalable test environments, and implement modern automation practices across cloud and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of IT experience in quality engineering within a digital or ecommerce environment.
• Experience as a Software Quality Engineering lead or similar role overseeing multiple products.
• Hands-on experience developing UI and API automation frameworks.
• Familiar with programming languages Java, Python, JS, C, Ruby, Perl, C languages.
• Automation frameworks experience with Selenium, WebDriver Grid, Protractor, Jasmine, Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, TestNG.
• Experience using Git SCM tools (GitHub or Bitbucket) and CI tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project members, architects and software engineers to understand the technical landscape.
• Provide early feedback on risks in requirements and design.
• Ensure non-production environments and test data support testing activities.
• Liaise with release train teams to manage cross-dependency testing.
• Configure test tools to collect metrics for program dashboards.
• Guide engineers to write and maintain automated functional tests via CI.
• Implement and maintain automation frameworks and end-to-end tests.
• Facilitate adherence to Quality Gate requirements.

Skills

Team collaboration

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or related

Tools

Java

Python

JavaScript

C

Ruby

Perl

Golang

Selenium

WebDriver

Protractor

Jasmine

Cucumber

Gherkin

JUnit

TestNG

GitHub

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Work closely with project members architects and software engineers to understand the technical landscape and the context of deliveries to translate complex functional and non-functional requirements.

Work closely with product owners to provide early feedback on any foreseen risks in the product requirements and design.

Work with the Quality Engineering Chapter team to ensure non-production environments and test data are available to support the complete set of testing activities across feature teams.

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 ensure robust end to end tests.

Facilitate the set up and adherence to Quality Gate requirements.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or relevant experience.

3+ years of IT experience (with an experience in quality engineering roles within a digital or ecommerce environment.

Experience as a Software Quality Engineering lead or equivalent position looking after multiple products).

Extensive hands‑on experience with developing UI and API automation frameworks and familiar with common programming and scripting languages Java, Python, JS, C, Ruby, Perl, C languages.

Automation frameworks 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 CI tools like Jenkins, Azure, DevOps or equivalent and proficiency in at least 2 different programming languages utilising 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 perm and cloud offerings like Amazon and google cloud.

Leading teams to implement new tools and techniques to raise the quality of deliveries.