Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

Emirates Group IT is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join its Quality Engineering team. You will help ensure software quality across the entire customer journey, from ticket booking and payment processing to ancillary services and aircraft operations.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects, software engineers and product owners to translate functional and non‑functional requirements into testable scenarios.
• Provide early risk feedback and ensure test data and non‑production environments are ready for feature teams.
• Liaise with other release‑train teams to coordinate testing of cross‑dependency features.
• Configure test tools, collect metrics and support dashboards at program and enterprise level.
• Guide engineers in writing and maintaining automated functional tests within CI pipelines.
• Develop, maintain and adapt automation frameworks and test harnesses for robust end‑to‑end testing.
• Facilitate adherence to Quality Gate requirements.

Required profile

• Strong payment domain knowledge and proven experience building automated API, UI and contract tests.
• Hands‑on expertise in Java for test automation; Python experience is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Passion for continuous improvement and delivering reliable, scalable, secure solutions.

Required skills

• Java
• Python
• API testing
• UI testing
• Contract testing
• Test automation frameworks
• CI/CD
• DevSecOps