Principal 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’. As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence.

Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we are always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We are seeking exceptional IT professionals to strengthen our position as industry leaders. 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 a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer.

As a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer – dnata, you will join the Quality Engineering team, where quality is fundamental to the reliability of our enterprise platforms. You will play a critical role in assuring the quality, stability, and integrity of large‑scale Cloud ERP solutions that support core financial and operational processes across the Emirates Group.

We employ a broad range of testing tools and methodologies, leveraging industry‑standard automation frameworks and programming languages such as Java, C#, and Python, alongside modern Cloud and DevSecOps tooling. Quality is embedded end‑to‑end through CI/CD pipelines, automation‑first strategies, and continuous improvement practices to ensure resilient, secure, and compliant Cloud ERP platforms.

 In this role, you will:

• Lead quality engineering design and build for quality engineering solutions across teams within a release train. Carry out effective technical design reviews to ensure that the right architecture patterns are used to support modern quality engineering practices.
• Plan and lead a risk-based approach for end-to-end testing across all stages of development within release trains, ensuring inclusion and alignment with the business.
• Create, evaluate and implement quality engineering standards and improvements. Ensure they are being consistently implemented within release trains.
• Collaborate with the leadership and team members to identify and eliminate non-value adding work, with the aim of driving efficiency and productivity across teams and release trains.
• Champion automation, lean software development, test driven development, agile practices, timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems to drive continuous improvements.
• Develop/Identify framework, tools and practices to improve delivery quality of technology solutions and productivity of quality engineers.
• Foster a climate of continuous improvement amongst the team members based on scaled agile software development principles. Act as a trusted advisor for the quality engineers and guide the team to work autonomously in a multi-disciplinary feature teams.
• Lead, coach and mentor quality engineers within a release train, providing leadership and continuous feedback whilst facilitating professional development across all areas of quality engineering.
• Ensure appropriate processes are in place to support reporting at portfolio and enterprise level to demonstrate OKR progress.

To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:

Leadership role: Yes

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/careers