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Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 08 Oct 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $70k - $95k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

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. As a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, you will join our Quality Engineering team where quality lies at the heart of our brand. Our team ensures software quality across the entire customer journey, from ticket booking to the seamless delivery of ancillary services and the efficient operation of our airplanes.

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Responsibilities

  • Work closely with project members, technical product owners, architects, and software engineers to understand the complete context of deliveries, translating 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Assist the team in their development, training, and understanding of technologies and processes.

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or relevant experience.
  • ISTQB Certified Agile Tester.
  • Experience in quality engineering roles involving the development of complex, scalable software solutions in digital, data, or enterprise domains.
  • Solid experience as a Software Quality Engineering lead or equivalent position overseeing multiple products.
  • Experience in providing product input on business process flows and scenario mapping for business solutions.
  • Proficient in understanding and applying system thinking to advanced technology solutions within large organizations.
  • Experience with creating and maintaining large-scale test data frameworks to support test automation.
  • 3+ years of experience using one or more automation tools: Selenium components (WebDriver, Grid, etc.), Protractor, Jasmine, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG.
  • Experience using git SCM tools, GitHub, or Bitbucket.
  • Proficiency in at least 2 programming languages, preferably Python and Java.
  • Experienced with developing automation frameworks for UI and API testing integrated with CI pipelines.

Salary & Benefits
Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits 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.

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