About
As Lead Quality Assurance Engineer, 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. 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.
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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 to write and maintain 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.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a 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 domains.
- Proven experience leading or coordinating Quality Engineering across large-scale programs, 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 program leadership, architects, delivery teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Strong experience defining QE strategies, governance frameworks, quality operating models, testing standards, and program-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.
