As Lead Quality Assurance Engineer for Mobile Applications, you will design, develop, and implement quality engineering practices and processes for teams within an agile release train in accordance with quality standards and best practice guidelines. You will ensure the adoption of modern delivery practices for quality products and services built using world-class engineering practices.
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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 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 in writing and maintaining automated functional tests through continuous integration.
- Implement, maintain, and adapt automation frameworks and 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.
Requirements
- 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 the digital, data, or enterprise domain.
- Experience in leading and mentoring QA engineers; establishing automation and coding best practices, and owning and driving quality across the SDLC (shift-left & shift-right practices).
- Strong expertise in mobile application testing (iOS & Android), mobile web, and design systems validation.
- Hands-on experience with at least one modern UI testing framework: iOS (XCUITest, Snapshot testing) and Android (Jetpack Compose Testing, Snapshot testing).
- Proficiency in Swift or Kotlin (both preferred) and working knowledge of Java, Python, or JavaScript.
- Experience with AI-assisted testing, effective test data management, Agentic AI, and intelligent test selection to optimize test coverage, efficiency, and maintenance.
- Hands-on experience with Accessibility testing (mobile apps) ensuring compliance with accessibility standards (WCAG).
- Experience with API automation testing (REST/GraphQL) using tools such as Postman, REST-assured, and contract testing (e.g., Pact or similar).
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI) including test integration, parallel execution, and failure analysis.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and mobile device farms (Sauce Labs or similar).
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and design systems (Figma).
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.
