Senior Quality Assurance Engineer - SDET

Job Purpose

Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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 Senior Quality Assurance Engineer.

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer you will Join our Quality Engineering team, where quality lies at the heart of our brand. We value diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, and we are building a talented team of quality engineers. 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. We employ a suite of testing tools and methodologies, utilizing widely used frameworks and programming languages such as Java, C#, and Python, along with innovative technologies essential for application development, testing, and deployment. We implement CI/CD pipelines and follow DevSecOps practices, dedicated to continuous improvement to enhance the customer experience. If you are passionate about shaping the future of quality engineering and contributing to the renowned success of Emirates, we invite you to apply and help to shape the future of Emirates Group.

Job Outline

• Work closely with project members, technical product owners, architects, and software engineers to understand the complete context of deliveries and translate complex functional and non-functional requirements in robust end-to-end tests.
• 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 programme and enterprise-wide dashboards.
• Support and guide Software Engineers to write and maintain Unit tests, Contract tests and other automated functional tests through continuous integration.
• Implement, maintain, and adapt automation frameworks. Test harnesses to make end-to-end tests robust.
• Tenacity to ensure Quality Gate requirements are understood by the team and met.
• Support the coordination of major delivery initiatives across multiple domains and environments, ensuring no customer or business impact.
• Support the manual testers in the team in their development, training, and understanding of technologies and processes related to automation.
  
  

Knowledge/Skills

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent): Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 3+ years in Information Technology experience in quality engineering roles within a digital or e-commerce environment.
• Experience as a SDET 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 (Java WebDriver, Grid, etc.), Jasmin, Cucumber, Gherkin, JUnit, XCUITest, Playwright,Cypress, Lambda test or SauceLabs.
• Experience using git SCM tools, GitHub or Bitbucket or similar tools, CI tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitlLab 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 as well as integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting etc.
• Leading teams to implement new tools and techniques to raise the quality of deliveries
  
  

Salary & Benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. 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/careersJoin us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what’s it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.Join our growing team and enjoy a competitive remuneration package, discounts on flights and hotel stays. Find out more about working with us in our website www.emirates.com/careersJoin our growing team and enjoy a competitive remuneration package, discounts on flights and hotel stays. Find out more about working with us in our website www.emirates.com/careers