Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Mobile Applications

About the role

Emirates Group IT is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer specialized in mobile applications to join its innovative technology team. You will shape quality engineering practices for agile release trains, ensuring that mobile products meet the highest standards of reliability and performance.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement quality engineering processes for mobile app teams.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects and developers to translate functional and non‑functional requirements into robust end‑to‑end tests.
• Configure test tools, collect metrics and support enterprise‑wide dashboards.
• Guide software engineers in creating and maintaining automated functional tests within continuous integration pipelines.
• Maintain and evolve automation frameworks and test harnesses for mobile applications.
• Ensure quality gate criteria are understood and met across the team.
• Support cross‑train testing of dependencies and coordinate major delivery initiatives.

Required profile

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in quality engineering, building complex, scalable software solutions.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring QA engineers and driving quality across the SDLC.
• Strong expertise in mobile application testing for iOS and Android.

Required skills

• iOS testing frameworks: XCUITest, Snapshot testing (Prefire).
• Android testing frameworks: Jetpack Compose Testing, Snapshot testing (Paparazzi).
• Programming languages: Swift, Kotlin, Java, Python, JavaScript.
• Mobile web and design‑system validation.
• Automation framework development and CI integration.
• Experience with AI‑assisted testing approaches.